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Ever feel that you’re stuck in something of a rut? Yearn to do something a tad more exciting that takes you out of your comfort zone? If you’ve answered yes, then adventure company Unknown Epic could be right up your proverbial street. Their mission is quite simple, namely to “inspire people to leave their comfort zones and experience nature in its purest forms”.A worthy ...
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Into interior design or simply on the lookout for a new accessory to enhance your home? There are of course a plethora of places where you can look - some obviously a lot better than others! Our latest Startup of the Week is one such place and they’re on a mission to prove that design, quality and ethics can go hand in hand. Decorator’s Notebook is an online platform where you can di...
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As most of us can attest to, our high streets have had a pretty tough time of it lately. With the rise in identikit shopping malls, the growth of out of town retail parks and of course the multitude of economic challenges it’s not been an easy few years. However all is not doom and gloom. There are people and initiatives all across the country who are on a mission to fight back and to ...
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Think all co-working spaces are the same? Well we can pretty much guarantee that they’re not! Admittedly there are certain features and attributes which they all have, but they often have their own quirks and idiosyncrasies which make them entirely unique. In fact our recent feature on Co-Boat proves that very point - it’s a co-working space on a boat - a boat incidentally which will...
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As regular visitors to Startacus will vouch for, we love all things quirky - anything that’s a tad different from the norm and we’re hooked. That’s just one of the reasons why the movement that is The 25 Mile Supper Club had us intrigued from the off. Intrigued too? Read on… The 25 Mile Supper Club movement is all about people sharing their passion for food and communi...
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If you’re like us, you don’t like rainy days very much and much prefer to be baked in the sun. Rain can be dreary, dull and it definitely isn’t something that inspires us to be productive and to get things done! Not really very entrepreneurial weather, wouldn't you agree? However there’s no rule saying that you can’t turn a negative into a positive and here at Starta...
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The good folk at What3Words have devised a new global addressing system in which the world has been divided into 57 trillion 3m x 3m squares each addressed with 3 words randomly selected from the dictionary...Did you know that 4 billion people on this planet don’t have an official address? It’s staggering to think that something that we take so much for granted, is a luxury beyond the ...
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Business Social networking, and by extension, social marketing have become a staple part of a startup's healthy marketing ensemble. With noses planted firmly in smart phones, and every other business snapping at the bit for attention, how can any startup hope to stand out against the crowd? The same way they had since starups in ancient Egypt managed to convince customers. Being creative!(This is...
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After a 3 month break from our Startup Cities series, we are back with our first startup city of 2015 and it’s Swansea!  What does that mean? Well basically it means that over the course of February we will be giving the lovely people of Swansea a platform on which they can tell the rest of the world all the wonderful things that are happening in their city. This could include a huge...
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We are feeling uncharacteristically contemplative this afternoon, perhaps resulting from the sudden dive towards dreary bleakness that the weather has taken over the past few hours. It seems therefore to be the perfect time to dust off our ancient (and rather well-read) copy of the ‘Complete Works of William Shakespeare’ and tackle an article which has been rattling around our vacant b...
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