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It’s the first week of our new feature on Startacus-  “Entrepreneurial Room 101” We personally have loads of pet hates, disdain, loves, likes and loathes about the whole self starter / startup / entrepreneurial scene - our inability to give all us good folk a universal description explains just that! Taking inspiration from George Orwell’s 1984 and the TV show ...
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Last week Startacus Self Starter of the Week and Startacus member Inder Phull told us all his self starter story to date. This week Inder returns with four of the top tips he has learned to date and wants to share with fellow entrepreneurs... 1) Understand your skills and weaknesses, this is most important when developing a team. You need people who complement your weaknesses and bring a differen...
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Back at the end of 2013 we made a new year’s resolution to write a post on our entrepreneurial new year’s resolutions. Fast forward three weeks and with said new year’s resolution broken, step forward Startacus member Gemma Pirnie from Your New Crew who tweeted us suggesting an article on ‘Entrepreneurial resolutions for 2014’ would’ve been a good feature for t...
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We always like highlighting up and coming and leading lights in the entrepreneurial scene and we reckon we’ve stumbled upon a cracker here. But it seems that for some, Amina Nabi, will need no introduction. Firstly she is the Chief Exec and Founder of recently launched Kinnect2 - the ONLY social media platform, focusing on bringing people and brands together in real time. She was also recen...
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As 2016 draws to a close, we look back at all the achievements of all the entrepreneurs we've had to good fortune to have been able to work with. Considering it's nearing the holiday season, we here at Startacus felt it was pertinent to point out to our readers, the finest points of one of the greatest Entrepreneurs of all time; Big, Red and Jolly himself - Santa Claus! So Move over Bill Gates and...
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Arfah Farooq is 22 years old and co-founder and relationships director of Discoverables; a gameful platform that enables young people to identify, develop and showcase the key strengths and skills needed to succeed in work and in life… "In my final year of university where I was doing a degree in Media and Communication at Goldsmiths I wasn’t quite sure where I wanted to go. I stumbl...
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Tongue in cheek perhaps, but admittedly still in the spirit of Rock n Roll, this is an almost no holds barred article on why Startups are like Rock n Roll bands… Some esteemed entrepreneur type folk seem to want to suggest that being an entrepreneur is the new Rock and Roll. We are all Rock Stars apparently, our music is the startups we create, and the drugs, the energy that ‘the sce...
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Got big plans for your startup in 2014? If so, this recently launched comp from Dell is certainly worth a look. The competition will see 2 companies being given the opportunity to base themselves at Dell’s UK Head office in Thames Valley from April 2014 and to become a Startup in Residence. The benefits of that? Well, for a start there will be dedicated work space for up to 10 employees, ...
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It is probably stating the obvious, but here at Startacus we love it when determined self-starters put their imagination and creativity to good use...it’s kind of our thing. That`s why when we came across a young man named Chris MacRae who is doing just that, we leapt at the chance to get on board and lend a helping hand.  You see, young Chris is a student of psychology at St Andrew's ...
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In November 2013, online accounting software company FreeAgent was named among 2013’s fastest growing UK technology firms, securing 8th place on this year’s prestigious Deloitte Fast 50 in recognition of its impressive growth over the past five years; FreeAgent reported a 2128% rise in turnover for the period 2007-2012. Here Ed Molyneux, CEO and co-founder shares his journey from RAF p...
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