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Female Entrepreneurs Powering Economy and Communities Celebrated
by: Startacus Admin ~ 13th January 2021
The f:Entrepreneur ‘#ialso100’ campaign that's showcasing the inspirational female entrepreneurs who are running small businesses and supporting their communities at the same time
Some of the UK’s most inspiring entrepreneurs have been recognised for their powerful contribution to society, the economy and communities.
As part of its annual f:Entrepreneur ‘#ialso100&rsqu...
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IN4.0 with The Landing launches accelerator to inspire and empower female freelancers
by: Startacus Admin ~ 24th November 2020
New Manchester-based accelerator programme launches to empower women working in digital, creative, media and technology to meet their business needs and growth ambitions
A new accelerator will help to kick-start the entrepreneurial careers of 100 women who have lost their jobs due to the pandemic by giving them access to the skills, self-belief and confidence to pursue their ambitions as a...
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Impact of COVID-19 on female-led businesses
by: Startacus Admin ~ 13th October 2020
The impact of COVID-19 on female-founded, equity-backed businesses is revealed in new report just released by The Female Founders Forum...
The Female Founders Forum, a project by think tank The Entrepreneurs Network, in partnership with Barclays have just released Resilience and Recovery, a new report revealing that female-founded, equity-backed businesses have been worse affected by the ...
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Ambition, a new pre-accelerator programme for female entrepreneurs in Donegal launches
by: Startacus Admin ~ 25th September 2020Ambition, a pre-accelerator programme run by LEO Donegal and NDRC launches to help early-stage female founders from Donegal take business ideas from concept to pitch...
Great news for female entrepreneurs from Donegal with the launch of Ambition, a new pre-accelerator programme run by Local Enterprise Office Donegal in partnership with NDRC. The programme aims to help early-stage female entrepren...
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Campaign launched to celebrate the UK's Inspiring Female Entrepreneurs
by: Startacus Admin ~ 2nd September 2020The launch of the f:Entrepreneur campaign celebrating the inspirational women running their own businesses in the UK
A campaign to identify Britain’s 100 most inspiring and multi-achieving female entrepreneurs has officially kicked off, with dynamic businesswomen across the country encouraged to apply to join the ranks of the f:Entrepreneur #ialso 100.Startacus recently launched Impacting F...
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WILD.AI - the AI smart coach for female athletes
by: Startacus Admin ~ 1st March 2020WILD.AI is the health tech startup that has created an AI powered, science backed fitness app designed specifically for women...
The way that women train athletically is different to the way men train; the nutrition they need for training is different. The majority of health and fitness products, however, are designed for male physiology - often due to an ignorance of the aforementioned differenc...
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Why you should 'Shop Fierce and Female' this Christmas
by: Startacus Admin ~ 12th December 2017The Shop Fierce and Female campaign, (#ShopFierceandFemale) spearheaded by interiors and fashion brand, Age of Reason, is encouraging the public to buy from independent, female-led brands this Christmas. Care of Startacus, Sophie Turton, director of The Joyful Web, caught up with Ali Mapletoft, designer at Age of Reason, about the inspiration behind the campaign.
What is the message of...
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Women in Tech communities and platforms of note
by: Startacus Admin ~ 20th August 2017Even in this age of supposed enlightenment, a little authority and power, however minute, meaningless, or even imagined, can then go to people’s malfunctioning heads. Particularly in a still sadly female-deficient industry like tech, when these people are men, the result can be a hostile environment in which the women affected often feel they cannot say or do anything about it. Intelligent a...
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Odds are still stacked against female entrepreneurs
by: Startacus Admin ~ 8th March 2017
International survey highlights the odds are still stacked against female entrepreneurs
The odds are still stacked against female entrepreneurs, with women more likely to start their business much later in life and with less access to funding.
These were among the findings according to a recent poll by the online graphic design marketplace 99designs who surveyed more than...
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4 reasons why women shouldn’t just work in startups - they should run ‘em
by: Startacus Admin ~ 7th March 20144 reasons why women shouldn’t just work in startups - they should run ‘em...
It’s International Womens Day tomorrow (on the date of publication that is) and apart from the paradox that is the fact that this post has been written by a male, we thought it an opportune time to give all our Startacus clan a quick reminder as to why the female of the species make good startup leaders...
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- Insurtech startup, Nayms Closes £1.5m seed round 15th Jan 2021 Major seed investment secured by the innovative Insurtech startup Nayms to assist with developing further pilot programs and building its customer base