Inspiring
Black Friday chat bot from Pouch does the business (of finding you the best deals).
by: Startacus Admin ~ 21st November 2017With the amount of deals being offered up for Black Friday, one UK company is doing their best to simplify savings on the biggest shopping day of the year.
Pouch shot into the startup limelight this year when they appeared on Dragons den with their free voucher finding browser extension. We of course also featured them on Startacus as an acclaimed Startup of the Week.
So impres...
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Startup Tracker - the startup search engine
by: Startacus Admin ~ 16th November 2017If keeping tabs on cool, up-and-coming and competing startups is your thing, check out Startup Tracker, a startup search engine which points people to relevant data and information from the world's leading startup information databases.
The rise of entrepreneurship gave birth to an entire startup industry. In our information age, data is the new oil and making data about startups available is bot...
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Izzy Wheels - they're "re-inventing the wheel"
by: Startacus Admin ~ 14th November 2017People like to customise things - to put a personal touch on them. From flames or stripes down the side of your car (which make it go faster, obviously) to pink fuzzy dice hanging on the mirror; from plastering the underside of your skateboard with stickers and cutouts of Hulk to...whatever the hip young people do with hoverboards these days; from sticking a playing card through the spokes of your...
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Aire - the world's first personal digestive tracker
by: Startacus Admin ~ 29th October 2017When food does not properly break down in our digestive system, fermentation causes gasses such as hydrogen and methane to be released. These can cause all sorts of problems, not least of all pain and bloating. Different people are affected to varying degrees, and our digestive systems handle foods differently, which is why most of us know someone who always seems to be complaining about bloating ...
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Dog Ears Acclaim Continues to Grow in Leaps and Bounds
by: Startacus Admin ~ 20th October 2017From local beginnings, children’s media company Dog Ears continues to grow, with acclaim now coming from as far as China, with a potential Emmy Kids Award to boot...
"From little acorns, mighty oak trees grow" (said someone similar, somewhere).
Which leads nicely-ish into our introduction to Dog Ears, a small but growing children's media company based in Derry, Northern Ireland. Acco...
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The Workary wants to help make public libraries work
by: Startacus Admin ~ 17th October 2017We are liking the sound of The Workary, a group of co-working spaces across London that support public libraries by transforming under-utilised space into affordable 'work' & 'life' spaces for local startups, entrepreneurs and residents.
Facilitated by London based Wimbletech CIC, this social impact project works in partnership with local Councils to transform under-utilised library space int...
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Pointy offers local shops the chance to compete online
by: Startacus Admin ~ 1st October 2017Search for any product online, and the first result or two (or three or four or five) is likely to be Amazon. As handy as Amazon can be for shopping, it and other online shopping megastores are proving disastrous for some small, local shops.
Small businesses are closing their doors in record numbers, even after putting all of their products online to try to keep up with the times. At the end of t...
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Lysa wants to be your personal nutritionist in your pocket
by: Startacus Admin ~ 26th September 2017Smart and almost human (almost), Lysa aims to offers a new approach to diet management and nutrition. We really are hungry to give it a go…
We are liking the sound of coming-soon AI app (currently in early beta) Lysa which is all set to act as your personal health coach offering smart nutritional advice and guidance via your phone.
No more navigating online forums to try and figure ...
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Come Dine With WeFiFo
by: Startacus Admin ~ 19th September 2017Have you ever wanted to be a chef but lack the skill? Cook for the less discerning! Have you ever watched Come Dine With Me and thought, ‘I want to do that but without the cameras’? You’ve ruined the TV show but stumbled across the premise of WeFiFo. Kind of.
WeFiFo, rather than something an angry giant might say, is short for We Find Food. The idea is that anyone, of any cookin...
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Remote Mission - the remote jobs site with a social core
by: Startacus Admin ~ 11th September 2017Natalia Komis is an adventure maiden, creative activator, business strategist, serial entrepreneur and friend of Startacus. With her new venture Remote Mission - an inclusive remote jobs site, just about to launch, we wanted to find out more about Natalia's motivation and her mission to help people around the globe live the life that they want, where they want, to do good and to be able to pa...
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Aloe the self-care reminder app
by: Startacus Admin ~ 10th September 2017We have written previously about the physical and mental health aspects of entrepreneurship and those startups focusing on these issues. From handling depression to self-care after heartbreak, there are innumerable ways in which self-care is of vital importance both in and out of business. Now, adding to the area of self-care is Aloe: the self-care reminder app.
Aloe will be a free iOS (and later...
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Lazy Flora - think Hello Fresh for gardening!
by: Startacus Admin ~ 4th September 2017If you are not an avid all-year-round gardener, but fancy a wee dabble at a bit of carefree gardening, we think you might be in luck. Plant that thought and read on, as we want to tell you about early stage startup Lazy Flora, the delivery service for ready-made gardens in a box - think 'Hello Fresh' for gardening perhaps...
Founded by Claire Ransom, the concept of Lazy Flora came about as a...
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- Startacus brings virtual speed networking to Derry & Strabane Enterprise Week 2021 12th Apr 2021 The latest addition to the LEVELUP agenda is an online Speed Networking event, in partnership with Allstate NI and powered by Netminds. Come along and make new connections!
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