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Building your team can be a tall order. Here, our careers marketplace partners Jobbio share just some of the challenges you’ll face on your noble quest for talent. (originally published here.)Competition Fatigued as we may be from hearing about the war for talent, it is a war nonetheless. In this current hiring climate, candidates have their pick of companies, so you need to ...
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Startacus (that's us) and Jobbio have recently joined forces to create a startup focused careers marketplace for the startup community. Via Startacus, employers (new to Jobbio) can post their first startup job for FREE and job seeking talent seeking employment within the startup community can also view and apply for a whole host of startup jobs. Here Jobbio share some handy t...
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Are you working as a sole tradesman in a knowledge-based position? If you are, then consider yourself one of the lucky ones. You must be proud to be from a pool of growing professionals. Self-employed professionals in the UK have been on the rise – just two years ago, the number had risen to 4.7 million. Is full cover Important to a Self-employed Professional? As a successful sole tradesma...
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Business plans are part and parcel of... well, business life. Without a business plan, you don’t have a roadmap of where you want to go. If you’re seeking funding, a business plan becomes even more critical. Investors and VCs need to quickly see the potential of your company. If you make them work to understand your business idea, they will quickly disengage. So the pressure is on to...
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Collaborating with partners can be critical to the success of your business. Innovate UK, inspired by their recent video on essential tips for collaboration share some handy tips with Startacus on exploring the power and potential of partnerships for your business..."As a smaller or newer business, the appeal of going it alone is obvious. All the power, all the rewards, every opportunity to w...
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It is amazing how many articles focus on online marketing as if that was the only way to reach customers – this article is not among them. Offline marketing is not only going strong but evolving in a number of ways. Here are 5 reasons why offline marketing is a powerful marketing method that should not be overlooked. We’ll also explain why several types of offline marketing remain stro...
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Anna Tsyupko is CEO of London-based FinTech company Paybase. Paybase delivers an end-to-end solution for payments, compliance and risk – all rolled into one unified API. Anna has previously written for Startacus on some of the key challenges of building payments into an app and shared some invaluable tips on running a FinTech startup as a young CEO. Now she retu...
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There are few situations in the workplace that induce the level of stress that giving a presentation does. Not only do you have to speak in front of an audience, but oftentimes the quality of your presentation will decide whether a potential client gives you their business or not. There are many different roads to giving an engaging and effective presentation, there is no one strategy which is su...
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Most budding entrepreneurs have big dreams, but big dreams can often require big finances to support them. However, highly technical startups aside, many solopreneurs and self-employed folk start and grow small businesses with limited finance (sometimes known as bootstrapping your business) and by making sure that only essential pre-launch business costs, such as business website, website hosting ...
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Ruth Kudzi is a qualified Success coach, speaker and blogger. She built a six figure business on maternity leave and is now a multiple business owner. Her passion is empowering other women to start up and develop their dream businesses. Here, she shares an article recently published on her own site which gives thought to how you can use your existing leadership skills to become a successful entrep...
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Jim Rhodes, founder of Joto (a rather fab looking internet connected drawing board, featured on Startacus previously), shares some invaluable knowledge and advice for early stage startup founders, on the journey of developing and launching a product. "At the heart of every startup or small business is a great idea and a group of people striving to bring that idea to life. For every blossoming bus...
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Marketest is a leading online market research company, who conduct market research for existing businesses and startups launching new products or services as well as academic institutions. They previously wrote a fab article for Startacus on the importance of market research and now they share some invaluable thoughts on why you really need to test out your business idea first before launch...
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