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Here at Startacus we’re always on the lookout for innovative, quirky and inspirational ideas and businesses and this week we’ve discovered a business which happens to tick all those boxes. The business in question is We Walk the Line - a social enterprise which aims to empower and encourage more people to go down the self employment route. The people that We Walk the Line is on a mi...
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If you’re a coffee lover, you’ll know exactly how important that first cup of the day is. A nice dose of early morning caffeine enables you to kick-start your day in the right way leaving you with all the energy you need - and it smells good, too! If you are one of these people, you may be interested in hearing about Smartcups - the new product that makes purchasing coffee easy and co...
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Let’s face it - when we’re standing in the queue at our fave local coffee house waiting for that all important morning espresso, we’re probably more concerned with how good the barista is than what happens to the café’s coffee waste. That however is not the case with the co-founders of our latest Startup of the Week, bio-bean. These guys have managed to create an inn...
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  Who doesn’t love the smell of fresh coffee in the morning? It’s the perfect way to kickstart your morning, and it smells good too! If you love coffee as much as we do here at Startacus then you may be interested in hearing about Pact, an inventive coffee delivery service that just keeps moving up! Pact are a London-based subscription coffee startup which was founded in 2012 ...
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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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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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One year ago, we launched Empty Pocket Traders with the aim of bringing gourmet Fairtrade coffee to our customers’ door--through their letterboxes to be precise. It’s gone well in many respects but isn’t without its challenges, and those challenges have caused us to rethink our business model to some degree. Some of the issues: 1. Subscriptions--an innovative model when we launc...
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If you are a regular (or even an irregular) visitor to the world of Startacus, you will no doubt have noticed that we have gone a little bonkers in recent weeks. Not all the time of course (too much of a good thing and all that) but there has been on occasion, evidence of a slow, yet decided, decline into something which could be equated with lunacy. Not least of which, has been the ever increasi...
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As I write this, I am surrounded by a familiar din of clanking cutlery, relaxed murmurs, the gentle whoosh of a coffee steamer and the occasional clatter of loose change being dropped into a grateful tip bowl…am i in a coffee shop you ask? I wish! No -  I am at my desk as usual in the Startacus office draining the last lukewarm dregs from the so-so coffee I picked up on the way to work...
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Wyatt Cavalier of Empty Pocket Traders guest writes for Startacus on the ins and outs of the recurring billing model... "The subscription model has become super popular over the last couple of years.  It’s not just magazines any more: you can get just about anything delivered to your door these days. This model makes a lot of sense for both companies and customers, but there are a few...
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