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Innovative Coffee Cup Means New Way to Pay
by: Startacus Admin ~ 21st April 2015If 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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Startup of the Week - bio-bean
by: Startacus Admin ~ 18th March 2015Let’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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Coffee Subscription Service Raises £4 Million
by: Startacus Admin ~ 10th March 2015
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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5 Ways to get a morning buzz without coffee
by: Startacus Admin ~ 29th January 2015As 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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The 'Less than Publicised’ benefits of a Shared Office Space
by: Startacus Admin ~ 27th January 2015For 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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Anatomy of a Pivot - Wyatt Cavalier of Empty Pocket Traders shares his thoughts
by: Startacus Admin ~ 17th June 2014One 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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What does your choice of coffee say about you as a startup founder?
by: Startacus Admin ~ 9th April 2014If 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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Coffitivity - Do coffee shop noises increase productivity?
by: Startacus Admin ~ 6th April 2014As 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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Coffee Subscriptions and Monthly Pants: The ins and outs of recurring billing models
by: Startacus Admin ~ 31st July 2013Wyatt 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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Startup of the Week - Empty Pocket Traders
by: Startacus Admin ~ 17th July 2013As anyone who knows us in real life, or even follows us on Twitter can vouch for, we’re big fans of coffee here at Startacus. The day doesn’t really begin until we’ve had that first caffeine fix. Therefore when we hear about new startups in or around the coffee sector, we quite frankly get a tad excited. And that’s exactly what happened when we first heard about our latest ...
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