Interview

Few aspects of running a business have changed as significantly in recent years as banking and finance. The ever-growing influence of ‘digital’ has paved the way for fintech innovations to thrive, revolutionising the way that businesses complete transactions and raise capital, as well as business customers expectations of their financial service providers. Amongst this much-altered la...
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Since its launch in 2012, Seedrs has grown to become a major investment facilitator for an incredible range of startups, and has been instrumental in establishing equity crowdfunding as a mainstream source of funding for early stage and scaling startups alike. It’s fair to say that they know startups inside and out, which is why we are so pleased that they have chosen to be major sponsor o...
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Why should Digital Marketing and Digital Innovation matter to a startup business? We discussed this very subject with Stuart Donaghy of Digital Marketing Agency Blue Monkee Digital to find out more about amongst other things, current digital marketing trends, better ranking on Google, and why they supported upSTART - The startup pitch event at this year's Digital DNA in Belfast...
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One of the judges at the upcoming upSTART Pitch Battle in Belfast is a gentleman named Andy McCartney, founder and CEO of Whitespace Ventures, a VC lab which develops, funds, builds, and supports startup ventures. He is an entrepreneur, a CEO and an impassioned builder & supporter of technology innovations, who has dedicated 24 years of his life to bringing cutting-edge technologies into bei...
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On 8th of June, Startacus is hosting a tech startup pitch battle in collaboration with the team at Digital DNA called upSTART 2016.   The winner will take home not only enormous kudos, but also a top prize worth £50K including cash, a trip to San Francisco, and lots of high-value business support services.   Arranged by Digital DNA the winner of upSTART will also be given a Golde...
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A global Startup accelerator in Belfast is helping to grow the city’s reputation as an ideal place for ambitious startups from across the UK and beyond to start reaching their true potential. After a very successful first cohort Northern Ireland’s international tech accelerator StartPlanetNI is once again open for applications. But why should a Startup consider taking part in an acce...
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At one of our recent Startacus Tech Startup Social Events in Clerkenwell, we had the pleasure of meeting the team behind Wireless Fitness, which styles itself as a ‘portable exercise studio’- nice! It is an app which allows fitness instructors to run music based classes anywhere, without disturbing people in the local vicinity, by transmitting live from their own phone to those takin...
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It was a pleasure meeting Takis Malavetas Co-Founder & CEO of Convibo at our recent startup social in London. With a tagline of “Grocery delivery from supermarkets to your door in 1 hour” and having launched less than one month ago, we were hungry to find out more about Convibo, the new London grocery delivery service that delivers your grocery order to your doorstep on the same da...
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How do you schedule events with family and friends?  Email perhaps? Text messages? Or maybe you go proper old school and actually give them a call? A member of the Startacus community of Entrepreneurs , Roger Healiss, wasn't happy with this haphazard means of organisation, and so set about creating a more reliable and integrated way of making sure everyone would be on the same page when it...
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For freelancers, sole traders, and early-stage startups without a permanent place to work, there is a perpetual struggle- the struggle of finding somewhere to work. ‘But there are coffee shops and park benches aplenty!’ I hear you say… hardly what we’d call an ideal solution when all you want is somewhere quiet and comfortable to work. This is where the team at Spacehop ...
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If you have ever considered teaming up with a corporate partner to grow and develop your startup you are not alone. Increasingly Startups and Corporates are turning to one another to identify ways that they can work together. A great example of this is DPD, who are big hitters of the world of deliveries and have just teamed up with corporate innovation partners L Marks to launch DPD Discover...
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We’re sure you have heard of Big Data, but what about Little Data? LittleData is tech startup that is hoping to make it big in the world of data analytics, simplifying the way that Google Analytics data can be used to give businesses greater insight into their customers online behaviour. They are a recent arrival to the Startacus Showcasing Space For Startups, so as is tradition, we had a ...
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