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Startup of the Week - Thortful
by: Startacus Admin ~ 19th September 2018
Thortful - The startup that's providing a creative card marketplace for designers, illustrators and photographers
Whether it's for your brother's birthday or your parents’ anniversary, choosing a decent card can sometimes be more difficult than buying a gift - unless of course a last minute purchase from the local garage suits you fine! If however you like to deliberate over the card - se...
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Kickstarter - Back to Basics with Quickstarter
by: Startacus Admin ~ 25th July 2018With Quickstarter, crowdfunding platform Kickstarter wants to remind people of its smaller roots.
Pretty much everyone has heard of Kickstarter, even if they haven’t used it or donated to any campaigns. Founded in 2009, it has become so popular and mainstream that you might be forgiven for thinking it has always existed. From jackets, to videogames, to tabletop and card games, to fidget cub...
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Startup of the Week - BorrowFox
by: Startacus Admin ~ 4th April 2018Borrowfox - the peer-to-peer startup that's creating the UK's largest film and camera equipment rental marketplace.
Whether you’re a professional photographer who just can’t justify buying that extra piece of kit at the moment or a freelance film-maker who only needs a piece of equipment for a one off project, we reckon our latest startup of the week will be right up your street.
Bor...
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CreativeTech 100 – are you part of it?
by: Startacus Admin ~ 15th March 2018CreativeTech 100 – are you part of it? Tech London Advocates are looking for any startups doing great things in terms of CreativeTech, be it in music, video, fashion, art, design, marketing, ad-tech.
Nowadays everything has a tech after it, the challenge tends to be explaining what the tech actually is. If you work in marketing, PR, fashion, gaming, video, design, art or advertis...
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Startup of the Week - Perfocal
by: Startacus Admin ~ 17th January 2018If you’ve ever had to avail the services of a professional photographer, chances are you won’t have found it easy. Whether it’s involved endless online research and checking out examples of their work, or simply seeking out a few recommendations from friends, it will no doubt have been a time consuming exercise. And that’s even before you contact them about the potential jo...
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Startup of the Week - KitMapper
by: Startacus Admin ~ 11th January 2017Ever had to hire a PA system for a one-off event or needed the use of a projector just for a day? Then you’ll know only too well that getting the equipment that you need when you need it and at a price that’s right is not always that easy to do.
Likewise if you actually own some AV equipment, chances are you don’t use it all the time. You may however be quite happy to lend it ou...
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Playable City Awards 2015
by: Startacus Admin ~ 20th March 2015We can’t believe it’s that time once more. The Playable City Awards are back.
We don’t like to play favourites with our creative self starter events, but let’s just say if we did, this one would be pretty near the top of the list.
For those of you who haven't got a clue what we are talking about, here’s the lowdown.
Playable City Awards
Every year Bristol based cr...
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The Deutsche Bank Awards for Creative Enterprises
by: Startacus Admin ~ 11th March 2015If you’re a final year arts degree student or a recent graduate with an aspiration to start your own business, this recently launched initiative by Deutsche Bank would be well worth a look.
The Deutsche Bank Awards for Creative Enterprises have a core objective of helping art students throughout the UK to turn their creative ideas into fully fledged sustainable businesses. The Awards ...
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Slick Northern Ireland Creative Business Incubator set to Open
by: Startacus Admin ~ 18th February 2015Based adjacent to the innovative “Peace Bridge” in Derry’s city centre, is Ebrington Square, a formerly disused military barracks and parade ground.
The last few years have seen it being renovated and becoming a true cultural hub for the once divided city in Northern Ireland. Ebrington is now a collaborative and shared space for all sections of the community and now, with Eighty...
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Startup Swansea Month
by: Startacus Admin ~ 5th February 2015After a 3 month break from our Startup Cities series, we are back with our first startup city of 2015 and it’s Swansea!
What does that mean?
Well basically it means that over the course of February we will be giving the lovely people of Swansea a platform on which they can tell the rest of the world all the wonderful things that are happening in their city.
This could include a huge...
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