Interview

Did you know that taking your clothes off and posting a photo online can raise money for good causes? We chat to Tom Wren about his new platform Nelfie, which uses naked selfies or ‘nelfies’ to draw attention to good causes and encourage donations. Hi there Tom. First of all, please give us a quick rundown of how Nelfie works, and how charities can raise funds and awareness fro...
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Northern 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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Stagedoor 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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Drive 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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With 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. 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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KRPT 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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Launched 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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The 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 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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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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FEAST, 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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