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Trezeo looks to the crowd to target full UK launch
by: Startacus Admin ~ 27th June 2018Trezeo, a fintech startup focused on delivering financial stability to the self-employed, today announced its equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs to help fully launch its income smoothing business account product and kickstart its growth among the UK’s self-employed and gig economy workers.
Trezeo is a business account aimed at the self-employed, providing customers with a regular, defin...
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5 Benefits of Using Temp Agencies in the Hospitality Industry
by: Startacus Admin ~ 1st March 2018
In the hospitality industry, details are important. Those who pay attention to the smallest details will have the most success. However, it is also important for hospitality businesses to understand the market that they are targeting as not every business is pitching to the luxury market. Luxury hospitality is often heavily reliant of procedures being followed. More luxurious hotel chains, for e...
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iContract looks to raise £300k via crowdfunding
by: Startacus Admin ~ 15th February 2018iContract, a unique online platform connecting professional contractors with recruiters and employers for job matching and professional networking, is looking to raise £300k via crowdfunding platform Seedrs and currently (at time of publication) sits at 200k+ in investment funded.
iContract is a platform built by contractors, for contractors. With its data matching capability, interact...
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Beam - crowdfunding to help homeless people get into employment
by: Startacus Admin ~ 11th February 2018Homelessness is a sad, frightening, and important topic. With 8000 people sleeping on UK streets and a further 200,000 ‘hidden homeless’ - those with only temporary accommodation, like hostels or even the backseat of their car - it is strangely easy to forget that these absurdly large numbers represent actual people. That’s 280,000 individual human beings. We have written before ...
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Startup of theWeek - Labour Xchange
by: Startacus Admin ~ 13th December 2017Whilst flexible ad hoc work doesn’t suit everyone, there are times when it can be a perfect solution - both for employees and employers alike. However for both parties it’s not always easy to either find flexible employment opportunities or the flexible staff who can fill them. Until now that is. Our latest startup of the week is on a mission to do just that.
Labour Xchange is an onli...
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Jobbio HIGHER set to take the traditional careers event UP a level
by: Startacus Admin ~ 17th September 2017Talent take note. At Jobbio HIGHER, you'll be able to network & connect with some of the UK’s best tech companies & high-growth startups...
Forget cardboard stands or paper leaflets, and get ready to immerse yourself in the epicentre of London’s tech scene at Jobbio HIGHER on September 28th 2017 - taking place at the Truman Brewery, a leading East London destination&...
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Remote Mission - the remote jobs site with a social core
by: Startacus Admin ~ 11th September 2017Natalia Komis is an adventure maiden, creative activator, business strategist, serial entrepreneur and friend of Startacus. With her new venture Remote Mission - an inclusive remote jobs site, just about to launch, we wanted to find out more about Natalia's motivation and her mission to help people around the globe live the life that they want, where they want, to do good and to be able to pa...
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Gig economy workers in the Taylor Review: flexibility meets exploitation
by: Startacus Admin ~ 14th July 2017Matthew de la Hey is the co-founder and CEO of inploi, a community-driven marketplace, enabling people to discover and apply for hospitality jobs with London’s best employers. Matthew and inploi have spent a good amount of time, thinking and researching around the topics related to the Taylor Review.
Matthew has also talked at an University of Oxford Future of Work even...
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Will a robot take your job? This website will tell you the % chance
by: Startacus Admin ~ 25th June 2017Robots eh, it seems they will have a lot of explaining to do, when they have stolen all of our jobs. Or perhaps the robots that built the robots that stole all of our jobs, will have a lot of explaining to do....Or the robots that designed the robots, that built the robots….
Fear of job automation is currently at fever point... so what better way to play the ol’ doomsday scenario, th...
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From corporate life to self-employed – 15 lessons learnt in 2016 (which might help you).
by: Startacus Admin ~ 8th January 2017Previously published on LinkedIn, this excellent article from Ralph Charlton - now owner of Charlton Communications, highlights his journey from 'corporate world' to becoming self employed and 15 subsequent lessons he learnt along the way....
"A little over a year ago I left corporate life and decided to go it alone - from running a FTSE 100 corporate communications department...
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