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British workers need help organising their pensions. With a survey revealing that 20% of workers have no pension savings at all (Printerland), it’s clear that many employees need extra encouragement to help them plan for retirement. But, thanks to new government measures, employers are stepping up to help tackle the issue. Following changes to the Work and Pensions Act, all employers are now...
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Having a remote team has many advantages. Reduced office expenses, access to better talent, better talent at low cost, 24 X 7 availability, productive employees are some of the advantages that remote companies enjoy. Given no-investment in office set-up, more and more start-ups are preferring going remote. But what makes these companies successful in remote work? It’s how successfully they ...
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Taking the first steps on your entrepreneurial journey can feel daunting if you’re not sure what to expect. Although every startup story is different, co-working space provider Accelerate Places have highlighted some of the most common challenges you can expect to encounter along the way. Growing your team Growing your team is one of the most exciting parts of building a business, giving y...
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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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