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The festive season is upon us once more and so too is the time honoured tradition of exchanging gifts. Whilst there are some people who are relatively easy to buy gifts for, there are others who are anything but! You know the type - ask them for a hint as to what they’d like and they’ll simply reply “Surprise me”! Well, thanks to our latest Startup of the Week, you can buy...
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Interview with subscription service startup London Sock Exchange Recently we came across a rather interesting little startup called the London Sock Exchange, a quarterly subscription delivery of stylish mens socks.  Intrigued to learn more, we had a chat with co-founder Oliver about the business, and what it's like to head-up a subscription delivery service.  Hi Oliver, first off can y...
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Let’s face it - the Internet of Things (IOT) is here to stay and as a result, our world will never be the same again. Of course, the reality is that in technological terms, it’s still all in its infancy. At this point, it’d be fair to say that most of us have probably not yet fully appreciated the impact that internet connectivity will have on so many of our everyday objects and ...
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MassChallenge is Coming to Switzerland Our friends over at MassChallenge have just announced the latest European location to be added to their growing global presence will be Switzerland! MassChallenge has its roots in Boston Massachusetts, where it operates the World’s largest accelerator programme, but in recent times they have begun to branch out to other promising locations, including ...
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Little Sun- A Solar Powered Social Business World leaders in Paris have just signed an historic agreement to cut carbon emissions and thus decrease the rate of global warming. Whether collectively the nations are able to do so remains to be seen, but nevertheless there are entrepreneurs and innovators everywhere, who are already doing their bit to make the dream of a low carbon world a reality. P...
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In all our time of exploring startups, social enterprises, and SME’s we have never come across a hotel that is also a social enterprise. Now we can check it off our list. The Social Enterprise Hotel  The Green Rooms Actor’s Hotel which plans to open in the Wood Green area of London next year will be a 20-room hotel catering to theatre troupe cast and crew. The problem is one th...
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We have seen some unusual Startup business models in our time but this one pushes the level of anything even we have come across. The innocuously named SwanLuv gives away free weddings for ever-lasting marriages, but it’ll cost you big if you ever get a divorce. The team behind Swan Love have created the oddly structured startup in response to the increasingly transient nature of relations...
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As we all know, time is a pretty precious commodity and the less we have of it the more we need! Whilst many of us may yearn to have a personal assistant to ease the burden of our seemingly endless to-do lists, cost implications usually put paid to any such ambitions. Our latest Startup of the Week  however is on a mission to make having a professional personal assistant a much more access...
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We love it when new and exciting new urban innovations come on to the market! That’s why we very pleased that today, after years of development an exciting new form of personal transportation is being launched. The team at Uniwheel have created the UK's first electric wheel transport device that is robust enough to carry a person, but that is also light enough for a person to carry. It...
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At Startacus we love to celebrate startups. The Innovative. The ground-breaking. The inspiring! One of the ways that we do this is through our long-running ‘Startup of the Week’ awards, which have taken place over the past 3 years. Every week, the team at Startacus HQ select a startup which we feel best demonstrates our community ethos of innovation and progressive entrepreneurship. ...
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Startacus co-founder Alastair Cameron shares a Christmas wish-list of things he would love to get for Christmas, and what he reckons other Startup founders would like to get as well. “Last year we wrote our list of Christmas gifts to buy your Startup Founder and as it's that festive time again, we return with a fresh look some things you might want to get for that very special (or otherwise...
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Everything is going a bit startup these days. From the startup bus to the startup boat, it seems that if you can feasibly make something entrepreneurial, then it has been done! But have you heard about startup homes yet? Startup homes sit at the front of  a new phenomenon known as ‘co-living’ whereby a number of entrepreneurs live together in a productive atmosphere design...
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