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Proper promotion and marketing are just as important to the success of your crowdfunding project as the quality of your product and your pitch. After all, how will investors find out about your campaign unless you get out there and tell them about it? They simply won’t! Here are a few ways that you can promote your crowdfunding campaign! Your Contacts Just take a look around you (both li...
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Turn the clock back a decade and the chances are had you uttered the word ‘crowdfunding’ you would have been met with a blank, slightly puzzled stare. It’s rather telling of the fast-paced digital world that in 2015, crowdfunding has become one of the most popular forms of alternative finance, not only for enterprise but for a massive range of projects, initiatives, and cam...
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Fancy winning an outdoor poster campaign for your startup? Or how about raising some additional funding? Or accessing a whole heap of marketing support? Well, thanks to a recently launched initiative by our friends at Crowdfunder and JCDecaux, the UK’s leading Outdoor Advertising company you could potentially win all three! The two companies have joined forces in a bid to help up to 100 st...
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A month ago, Derek Ahmedzai was our first Self Starter of the Week for our 2015 Awards entering our acclaimed 2015 Hall of Fame. Derek has been a Startacus startup member for some time and it was great to give him some recognition for his latest business project Fundsurfer - a funding platform for creative, social and green projects. Intrigued, we caught up with Derek himself to find out more abo...
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Here at Startacus we are avid and enthusiastic supporters of all things crowdfunding.  For the startup and self-starter it is perhaps one of the most useful of tools to have grown from the digital revolution.  Never before have the enterprising and innovative folks of this world had such a marvellous opportunity to secure vital funding, but also to inspire so many people with the work th...
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Crowdfunding is a beautiful thing. Whether it's in exchange for equity, or an appropriate reward, crowdfunding has opened up a whole new channel through which people with great (and some not so great) ideas can secure vital funding and tell the whole world about what they are up to. As such avid supporters, we spend a lot of time browsing through all manner of wonderful, weird, and wacky campaign...
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Few things cause the modern startup founder to sit up like an excited meerkat faster than the sentence “successful crowdfunding campaign”...it’s like the elusive holy grail of the enterprise world.  If you are planning to create a crowdfunding campaign, we have a free crowdfunding support package to help you reach your goal! Crowdfunding has become a key component of busin...
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Access to Business Finance in NI and ROI (excluding the Banks!) Following on from our recent article on the organisations that can support your startup in Ireland (North and South), Donal Leahy, Business Boot Camp Programme Manager at Enterprise NI has kindly offered to write a separate, but inter-linked article on the non-bank finance options which are currently available to businesses, startup ...
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Okay, we get it, you're all sick to the back teeth of hearing about how the foods that you love are going to kill you. They are too high in fat. They are too high in salt. They are too high in sugar. They are evil and if you eat them, untold horrors await you. We're hearing a lot of problems and not many solutions; unless of course you think that "eating more lettuce" constitutes a solution... if...
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Have you ever ridden your bike without a helmet? That was a really foolish thing to do, but you are certainly not alone in that regard. In response there is a crowdfunding campaign about to commence that should make carrying and using a helmet much easier for silly folks like you. ‘Put a lid on it’ is challenging a problem that unfortunately needs very little elaboration; people rid...
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