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Common start-up business problems and how to overcome them  Below, we will explore some of the common pitfalls faced by small businesses: from handling their finances and managing clients, to hiring their staff. If these new business issues are approached and handled correctly, there’s more of a chance you’ll not only survive the predicted initial lean years, but both prosper and...
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Our pals over at Vitamin just gave one lucky Startacus member a £5000 website and branding package, covering a new custom website, brand management and even creation (if you needed it) and a subscription to their fantastic Vitamin service.  Now they’re giving our members their two cents on one of our favourite topics 'Why and when your business needs a website'. Over to the exper...
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Now for something devilishly over complicated and incredibly convoluted, which can only mean one thing; Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs are involved. Now, we are sure that you have come across the Enterprise Investment Scheme and the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme in the past…and quite understandably, you were probably horrified into retreat. These schemes, are actually a very u...
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In this our Swansea startup month, Prince Appah of Swansea based e-commerce solution Veeqo, tells us a litte about how new technologies create opportunities for online retailers.   Over to you...The rise and rise of mobile shopping apps is great news for consumers and retailers alike: this metamorphosis of the retail landscape has made the shopping experience much quicker, easi...
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With all new and old businesses, the laws and processes of the land are pretty much dictating the activities that a company can or cannot partake in.  As a Startup, business person and entrepreneur; you therefore need to know what’s going on in the world of business! That’s why we’ve put together this handy list of business Journalists that you and your team should be foll...
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It may sound like a delivery service run by butter-fingered workers, but drop shipping is increasingly becoming the mechanism of choice for a broad range of small, medium, and large businesses. Specifically in recent years there has been a notable increase in the uptake of such systems by startup businesses. We reckoned it was about time we took a few moments to run you through the basics of the ...
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2015 is the year of the self starter - we said it on January 1st and what has happened since has only made our position even more resolute. Just a few weeks ago we were reporting the incredible news that entrepreneurship had reached its highest ever level in the UK in 2014, and now we’re delighted to share some more encouraging news released just yesterday by the folks at Barclays. Through...
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5 Ways to beat the afternoon slump - You all know what we are talking about! Rather aptly, as I begin to write this piece, the time is approaching 2:30pm and right on queue, I am beginning to droop over my desk like a doomed snowman during a thaw. But unlike the snowman I am not surprised by this sudden and seemingly disastrous turn of events; this has become so routine, that I barely even r...
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As you know we are rather fond of coffee here at Startacus, and we are not ashamed to admit it. Between balancing hectic work lives and battling with the end-of-the-world style weather conditions of late, the thought of a fresh cup of coffee, steaming intoxicating vapours to our brains, is one of the best motivators imaginable. Mind boggingly, some people aren’t as in love with this ebony e...
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One of the most intimidating things any startup will have to deal with is the abhorrent amount of non-sense jargon that is thrown about by the community of investors, clients and support websites. Without that business background, how are you supposed to know the difference between an angel investor and an invisible partner?Here at Startacus, we say enough is enough, and we're on a mission to hel...
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For a remarkable amount of startups, their first office space will probably come from an incubator or accelerator programme. That said, most of these programmes aren’t going to fork out for a private office and dedicated server, and as a result, startups tend to use shared, open plan office spaces.At first it may seem kind of juvenile, like a school or college study room or something, but fr...
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For startups with an ambition to grow, there are few words which carry the level of intrigue that 'investment' does, and foremost in the mind of anyone starting their own business is seed funding. Seed funding is now a commonplace term and refers to a number of different types of capital investment related to startups, small businesses, and other ventures. It is often also known as 'seed investme...
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