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Northern Ireland Folk lend me your ears.  Good news, after our recent flurry of event giveaways with Dublin’s Web Summit, London’s Apps World and Sheffield’s Crowdfunding Deep Impact Conference, we’ve got a Northern Ireland based startup / innovation / entrepreneurial event giveaway - namely two tickets for the Digital DNA conference up for grabs. Yep - two...
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Submit your Startup! When we relaunched our Collaboration space back in June, we reckon we went a step further in offering a fab place where self starters can submit their startups, ideas and projects for the world to see. And as you’d imagine, we are still busy beavering away at Startacus HQ to try and evolve and improve that space. Over the coming weeks and months we will add extra user ...
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What's life in a startup really like? Exciting? Inspiring? Terrifying? If you are thinking about turning your hand to a role within a startup, or indeed taking the plunge with a new business of your very own, your head is probably buzzing with questions about what it's really like. Luckily the folks over at NACUE (that's the National Association of College and University Entrepreneurs) have create...
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If you’re the creative type, then the latest Open Call for The Space would be well worth a look. For any of you who may not be aware, The Space is a free online space for artists and audiences from around the world to create and explore exciting new art. Right now they’re on the lookout for projects from artists from a range of industries and sectors - from the creative and digital si...
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Good news, after our flurry of crowdfunding themed articles, from our overview of the national Crowdfunding: Deep Impact Conference and our interview with Barry James, Crowdfunding thought leader, we return this week with a fab giveaway. We've a ticket to win for the Deep Impact III conference itself and three runners up prizes of free entry to their Crowdfunding Masterclass, which quite convenie...
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The razor sharp amongst you have probably noticed that this year we have taken particular interest in all the news / goings on from The Pitch small business competition. `It came to the forefront of our mind during our Bristol Startup Month (since the competition itself is a product of this great and wonderful city) and we of course vowed to follow its every move as it hurtled towards th...
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Do you have an great new idea for an event?  The good folk over at Eventbrite, backed by our friends General Assembly, Moo, and Moneypenny are on the hunt to find the best new event idea in the UK. With only just over a week left to apply, we thought it best to make a bit of event of it, and share all the important details with you all... The competition, aptly named The Spark is a competi...
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Since we’re slap bang in the middle of our Startup Cities focus on Dublin, we thought there’d be no better time to highlight the fact that The Irish Times Innovation Awards are back and open for business! For the past five years, the awards have been seeking to celebrate and showcase all things innovative throughout the island of Ireland and this year is no different! Entries are cur...
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Between you and me, there’s one thing that we at Startacus HQ probably dig more than anything else every day and that is food. Then of course, we like our coffee, our reading, writing and of course our chats and meetups with all you inspiring self starters.   So that’s why we’re delighted to report that the Digital Shoreditch Festival, which returns in May 2015, will, as we...
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Anyone who follows Startacus on a regular basis will know our long term passion for all things crowdfunding so we're delighted to share the news about a fantastic collaboration between The Crowdfunding Centre and The University of Sheffield which brings the national Crowdfunding: Deep Impact conference to the north for two days. With a Crowdfunding Masterclass on the 12th and the main Deep Impact ...
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Got an idea for something that you’d like to sell online? Well, we reckon it’s time to make that idea a reality! Not just because we’re kinda obsessed with self starters and people doing their own thing, but also because leading eCommerce platform Shopify have just launched their latest Build-A-Business competition so the timing is perfect! Here’s how it works: First of a...
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So far in our tour of UK and Irish cities we have have spent a month looking at the startup / entrepreneurial / creative goings on of Belfast, Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow and Sheffield. We couldn’t be happier to announce that today (Wednesday 7th of October) is a very special day here at Startacus - it’s the first day in our month long examination / showcase of the wonderful Irish ca...
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