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Troy McConnell has 23 years of entrepreneurial experience. Co-founding his first company, Image Technology, back in 1988, he is currently the CEO of AudienceFUEL. With a wealth of entrepreneurial experience we are delighted that Troy is sharing some of his knowledge with Startacus.  Currently teaching at the School of Business at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, USA, w...
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We love taking a look at accelerator programmes that offer something a bit special and this week we think we've hit the nail on the head with Accelerator Academy, a well established education programme which has tasked itself with encouraging high growth to start-up digital businesses. You'll have to get your skates on though, as all applications must be in by September 15th. What does the progra...
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The David Manley Awards... A couple of weeks ago we featured the Arthur Guinness Projects. These awards were specifically for Irish ideas - North and South to celebrate and reward the next chapter of Irish talent and creativity, specifically in the areas of Music, Sports, Arts and Food. Previously the Arthur Guinness Fund had rewarded projects that were aiming to make a social impact, and as t...
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In part 1 of Vincent Haywood's Startup Diary Vincent started with a a call to action to all wannabe entrepreneurs. And so Vincent returns for Part 2 and this time Vincent talks up Networking and practicing what you preach. Over to Vincent to explain: "I wrote a post about Networking on my blog a few months back.  I wrote about how excited I was in meeting so many people from various pit...
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Part 1 - "Start Now". Vincent Haywood Founder of Braqes starts his Startup Diary with a call to action to all wannabe entrepreneurs.... "I almost called my startup some sort of Mexican name, the reason being that I was chilling on a beach in Cancun when my girlfriend told me to stop talking about it and just do it. I’d made this mistake a few times, coming up with what I thought were ...
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Last week marked the release of a new YouTube channel, called beBusinessTV. The channel is a joint project by two large Irish firms, digital company beActive and the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Programme. In essence, it’s a new YouTube channel designed specifically for “entrepreneurs, Mumpreneurs, risk takers, people with new ideas, students who are thinking outside the bo...
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Interested in collaborating with others? You may wish to take a look at OuiShare - a non-profit and global community of entrepreneurs, designers, writers, economists and citizens working to accelerate the shift to a Collaborative Economy... Whilst Startacus is aiming to get people together to help ‘make ideas more of a reality’, the thinking behind Ouishare is that it is a collaborati...
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Guest contributor to Startacus, Joseph Benn, highlights some questions that perhaps all Entrepreneurs should be asking (and be able to answer!)  Some Useful Questions for Entrepreneurs...This post is a follow on from my one on five questions. If you haven’t read that one it would be worth going back and doing so. I love questions. To me they are one of the most powerful creative thin...
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Here at Startacus we promise that apart from the odd ‘wheely-wheely’ bad pun we will keep you fully posted on this innovative and fun initiative aimed at creating and discovering the next big thing. The Founderbus will see a UK team of 25 young budding entrepreneurs, touring the UK on a mission to build up a business idea to present in front of leading investors in Europe. Their ultim...
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Here at Startacus we’re pretty fond of the whole concept of bringing people together, sharing ideas and collaborating and of course of any places, projects or initiatives that do just that. One of the latest to come to to our attention is the forthcoming Silicon Valley Comes to the UK programme.SVC2UK is a not for profit series of industry backed events led by prominent business leaders, inv...
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