Interview
MedTech Startup Elemental - using Tech to improve community healthcare
by: Startacus Admin ~ 3rd March 2016Northern Ireland Startup Co-Founders Leeann Monk and Jennifer Neff of MedTech Startup Elemental are just back from Barcelona after attending last week's Mobile World Congress. Fresh off the plane we took this opportunity to catch up with both ladies to find out more about their digital health startup, their journey over the last 12 months and their experience of the Mobile World Congress itself.
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Removing Barriers to the Arts Through Tech
by: Startacus Admin ~ 2nd March 2016Stagedoor App- Removing Barriers to the Arts Through Tech
If you are a theatre buff, then you will like this one.
Self-starters Alex Cican, and Michael Hadjijoseph have created a Mobile App Solution to the challenge of keeping up-to-date with the all the happenings on the London theatre circuit. But much more than that, Stagedoor App is already being praised for its ability to ...
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A Chat With Drive the Startup Accelerator
by: Startacus Admin ~ 1st March 2016Drive the Startup Accelerator
The World’s leading vehicle glass repair / replacement service provider Belron (which operates as Autoglass in the UK) has teamed up with our friends over at L Marks, Innovation Partner to create a global Accelerator that is open to a wide range of startups.
The programme, aptly named ‘Drive’, marks the most recent in a fast growing ...
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Terminal 3 makes remote working a global travel experience
by: Startacus Admin ~ 24th February 2016With the pitch of “Living the Dream, and travelling and working remotely across six destinations in six months”, Startacus was naturally intrigued by the concept of Terminal 3.
Having recently visited our online startup showcasing space to showcase Terminal 3, we heard from the team (two co-founders with a passion for startups & travel) about their plans for the 6-month long ...
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Marketing and Graphic Novels - our chat with Danny from Revolve Comics.
by: Startacus Admin ~ 4th February 2016Marketing and Graphic Novels. We Chat to Revolve Comics.
Danny McLaughlin, a member of the Startacus community, has just launched a new comic book publishing house Revolve Comics, that produces graphic novels and comics as an innovative and engaging form of content marketing.
It’s a fascinating area of marketing with a huge amount of potential, so we caught up with Danny to learn mor...
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Startups in youth culture: Skute
by: Startacus Admin ~ 2nd February 2016KRPT Week is a celebration of the future of advertising from the next generation's perspective.
It’s Day 2 and we’re delighted to be giving KRPT a window to reach the wider Startup community. Today, KRPT consider the impact of startups in youth culture with an exclusive interview with the founder of Skute, the first physically connected social network, to discuss how they see the futu...
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Data Sharing App people.io lets people trade their data
by: Startacus Admin ~ 31st January 2016Launched last week in London with the target of going nationwide in three months, London based startup people.io aims to rebalance the standard online consumer and brand relationship by giving more power to the consumer to trade the data they want to share.
We spoke to Founder Nicholas Oliver to find out all the data that matters on this marketplace startup that puts data at the heart of the tran...
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We Chat to Bloombox Flower Box Delivery
by: Startacus Admin ~ 19th January 2016The team at Bloombox have recently added their flower box delivery service startup to our startup showcase and collaboration area. We were rather intrigued to learn more about their business, what their journey has been like so far and how they are bringing a new approach to home gardening.
Hi there Bloombox, give us your pitch!
BloomBox Club is a pioneering plant box deliv...
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Gamification, Health and Pets! Step Pets chats to Startacus
by: Startacus Admin ~ 29th December 2015Gamification, Health and Pets! Step Pets explains all!
US based Random Breakfast build mobile games focused on Health. Having just launched their first game StepPets they recently listed their startup in our Showcasing area on Startacus. What better way then to find out more about gaming, gamification, health and...pets than to hear from Startacus community member Tim Cooley about Step Pets, a ga...
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We Chat to London Sock Exchange
by: Startacus Admin ~ 21st December 2015Interview 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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FEAST, Late night food delivery startup
by: Startacus Admin ~ 15th December 2015FEAST, Late night food delivery startup
Simon Pusey was recently named as one of our self-starter of the week winners for his gutsy decision to give up a successful career as a journalist to pursue his ambition of running his own business. The resulting food startup was FEAST, the UK's only late night food delivery service which delivers high-quality restaraunt food in London between the ho...
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Crowdfunding on a TV Show
by: Startacus Admin ~ 9th December 2015CornerDrop is an innovative new click and collect service that allows your packages to be delivered to any CornerDrop location, and collected by you at your leisure! At the beginning of the year, they managed to raise £75K in just 2 days of crowdfunding and have recently appeared on a new startup pitching show called Money Pit on Dave. We have a chat with CEO Andrew Lasota about what it's li...
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