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As you know July is our Glasgow startup month - an entire month when we take a good hard look at this marvellous city and all the people, places and events that make it the great startup place that it is! What we have been hearing in particular from all the lovely people we have featured so far is that within Glasgow itself, and indeed Scotland generally, there is an incredibly rich, di...
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Its shaping up to be a cracking week for the city of Glasgow! Alongside what is promising to be the most memorable Commonwealth Games opening ceremonies in many a year, taking place later today (23/07/14) yesterday the chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne made an announcement which is sure to put a smile on many a little entrepreneurial face. £24m in new funding will be made available...
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As you have probably noticed we have had rather a lot of Glasgow themed stuff floating around Startacus this past couple of weeks - this is because July is our Glasgow startup month- a whole 4 weeks during which we are taking an extra close look at Scotland’s largest city and the startups, people, places and events that make it the great self starter city that it is. As if this weren't exci...
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As a general rule, here at Startacus, we only feature good ideas (and more often than not only GREAT ideas) which is why the title of this piece may have struck you as somewhat odd. Bad Idea, is a Social enterprise based in Glasgow, that tasks itself with encouraging the personal development of the city's young folk through a range of enterprise centred activities. Naturally, this is something th...
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In case you haven't heard yet, here at Startacus we have just begun a great new year-long series of features in which we will be putting 12 of the UK and Ireland's most happening startup cities under our proverbial microscope to showcase the people, places and events that make them the great self starter cities that they are. Thus far we have good long look at Belfast and Bristol and now we cra...
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After a short break following out really successful Bristol startup month, we crank our necks northwards to Scotland's largest city Glasgow and (for the next month) shall be taking an in depth look at the people, places and events that make it the great self starter city that it is.  To this end, we have enlisted the help of Chitresh and Louis, co-founders of innovative customer loyalty rewar...
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