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Startup of the Week - Fliqio

by: Startacus Admin ~ 12th November 2014
If you’re into short films - either in terms of making them or watching them, you’re going to like this a lot. This of course being our latest Startup of the Week. Fliqio is an innovative new mobile video on demand service. Users can easily find and watch high quality short films to suit their tastes - no matter where they are - on or offline. It’s a freemium subscription base...
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What is Social Trading? - The basics you need to know

by: Startacus Admin ~ 12th November 2014
"Everyone knows how to invest in the stock market." No, I didn’t believe it either the first time I heard it. I was sitting in the audience of a talk at Web Summit 2014. On stage was a very charismatic gentleman by the name of Yoni Assia, co-founder and CEO of popular social trading network eToro. What he had to say on the matter of trading was very enlightening, and certainly reframed th...
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Web Summit 2014- Phone Beer, 3D Printed Robots and 20,000 People.

by: Startacus Admin ~ 11th November 2014
Very early rise and out into the bitter air of a late autumn morning - the long bus trip to Dublin for Web Summit 2014 should pass by bright and clear. Despite near major cardiac event caused by Startacus journalist Niall’s daredevil approach to time-keeping, we finally set off on the long road at around 7am. Aside from stunning visions of sparkling emerald landscapes, a mercifully uneventf...
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Robots, Virtual Reality, Business and Food - Niall talks Web Summit 2014

by: Startacus Admin ~ 10th November 2014
Niall, one of the Content Journalists here at Startacus, shared the adventure of the Dublin Web Summit 2014 with fellow Journalist; Eoin. From the early start to the wind down; Niall talks about the experience. “Despite nearly missing the 7am bus, (my legs are still sore from the 20+ minute sprint to the station) the journey got off to a good start. My lungs made several attempts on my life...
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Startup of the Week - FoneSense

by: Startacus Admin ~ 5th November 2014
Let’s face it - our first thoughts when our phone rings are either positive or negative, depending on who the caller is of course! However, thanks to our latest startup of the week, that ringing phone will always be a pretty positive affair. FoneSense is a mobile engagement platform which rewards users every time their mobile rings. Here’s how it works: you simply select your favouri...
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Financial news round-up for Small Business - October 14

by: Startacus Admin ~ 3rd November 2014
Welcome to the Startacus monthly financial news round-up, brought to you by Sophie Turton of Crunch Accounting. British SME confidence lags behind other major economies, yet London reigns supreme as the world’s most desirable city to live and work in. Bank lending to SMEs fell again over the past quarter, prompting the government to focus on challenger banks as a source of lending power to ...
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Startup of the Week - Dock Name

by: Startacus Admin ~ 29th October 2014
What’s in a name? Quite a lot actually! And as we all know when it comes to naming our startups, it can be a long deliberated process. Brainstorming sessions galore until eventually inspiration strikes. Or was that just us with Startacus? I digress… The fact is that if you happen to be struggling with a name for your new enterprise or project, you’re going to love our latest S...
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Startup of the Week - Learner Lane

by: Startacus Admin ~ 22nd October 2014
For many students, it is not always possible to learn everything they need to at school - additional support in the form of extra tuition is often required. Of course finding a tutor to provide that tuition can be a somewhat difficult task in itself. However thanks to our latest startup of the week, that need no longer be the case. Learner Lane is a new platform which helps students find the perf...
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How Creativity Sparks Entrepreneurialism

by: Startacus Admin ~ 21st October 2014
By Janice Valentine If you consider culture as being the realm into which all sorts of creative streams flow, then there’s much evidence to say that having a rich cultural realm can benefit the business community. Why? Well because these days thriving business communities are those whose employees are innovative. And to be innovative you need to be creative. But not everyone thinks they ar...
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Clinch- New Dublin based feature packed hiring software

by: Startacus Admin ~ 21st October 2014
Having endured a particularly harsh recession during the recent global economic crisis, the Republic of Ireland is once again demonstrating an economic growth which far and away exceeds that of most Western nations, and tentatively suggests a return to levels of prosperity which just a few short years ago, looked almost certain never to return. The figures are nothing short of remarkable, with gr...
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The March of the Robots

by: Startacus Admin ~ 16th October 2014
If penguins aren't quite your thing then you might like March of the Robots. Not, as some of you may have suspected, a new age techno wildlife documentary featuring the dulcet tones of Sir David Attenborough (marvellous as that would be) but something equally intriguing and wonderfully bizarre. March of the Robots This is a year long adventure mission to create 10000 Robots in the great Northern...
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Startup of the Week - Frame

by: Startacus Admin ~ 15th October 2014
Let’s face it. These days we’re all pretty much spoilt for choice. We’re surrounded and bombarded by so many things that it can be a real chore to find the thing we actually want or would like.  That however is all set to change thanks to our latest Startup of the Week. Frame is essentially an online platform which makes discovering great products and events so much easier....
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