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Humans have been on the planet for six million years. In the past 40 years alone, we have have been responsible for the destruction of a massive 50% of Earth’s wildlife. If that figure isn’t terrible enough, try 93% of big cats lost in the past 50 years, or 85,000 elephants killed in the past 5 years just in Tanzania. With our every means of environmental destruction - intentional and ...
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Entrepreneurship is difficult. Entrepreneurship for women can be more difficult. Entrepreneurship for women in developing countries can be nigh impossible. Women in these countries who try to start their own business can be confronted not only by a lack of support, but opposition to them even trying. They find it much harder to gain access to traditional sources of funding, partly because many of ...
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With 1000’s of hosted dinners, 1,000s of diners and an estimated 300,000 opportunities for people to meet, created, TableCrowd are now looking to further expand their online and offline social network by raising £400k via leading crowdfunding site Crowdcube. Startacus (that's us) love a good chit-chat. Startacus also loves a good feed. But, team Startacus admittedly struggles with the...
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It’s like Cards Against Humanity for your startup, except nothing like that! Kick Cards are created for any business to keep themselves from falling into the trap of apathy, but are particularly useful for startups and first time entrepreneurs. Any business should be trying to think outside the box, but when it comes to actually doing that, how do you go about it? It’s healthy to quest...
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RideLink, a UK peer to peer car rental platform, also operating in Spain and Germany, has surpassed its £1 million crowdfunding target. RideLink recently announced the launch of its first equity crowdfunding round, aiming to open to investors of all sizes who wanted to own part of the continued expansion of this disruptive car hire model. In the traditionally non-digital car renta...
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In our minds, models of buildings or cities are things that belong in a Bond villain’s lair, or the office of some corporate elite, its pinstriped owner wandering around it talking into a headset whist swinging a golf club (don’t pretend you’re not picturing it too!)... Anyway, now Arckit allows anyone to build a DIY 3D model of their dream home, street, or even city, without be...
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Last October we (Startacus that is) shared our love for RideLink a “peer-to-peer car rental marketplace” in our much coveted weekly startup of the week feature. RideLink seemed to be yet another great example of the potential of the shared economy - people using RideLink could rent their car to other people - simples. With over half a year done and dusted, we thought it only right to ...
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Water. It’s wet, runny, and vital to life. It’s also notoriously difficult to make portable without environmentally-unfriendly packaging. There are plenty of reasons to dislike plastic bottles: In the US (because the numbers are more dramatic!), people go through roughly 1500 bottles per second; 80% of these, which is around $1,000,000,000 worth of plastic, end up in landfills to sit f...
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We are liking the look of Kniterate, a compact digital knitting machine (think 3D printing for knitting) that can create custom designed knitted garments like scarves, beanies, shoe uppers, sweaters, and dresses, and aims to bring fashion fabrication back to the masses!  Currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter, it looks like the general public agree too, and with 20 or so days left (at th...
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We all know that affordable housing is a big issue, particularly for the younger generation who often struggle with paying rent and saving for mortgage deposits at the same time.  The team at the holding project have an idea that they reckon could help solve both of these issues simultaneously, and plenty more to boot!   They are currently crowdfunding to raise £30,000 so that the...
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