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Weengs e-commerce fulfilment solution has big ambitions
by: Startacus Admin ~ 12th May 2019Weengs is a London-based startup that's on a mission to simplify order fulfilment for small ecommerce businesses, helping business owners & e-sellers grow.
Small ecommerce businesses have a lot of difficulties to overcome. From dealing with the ever-present buy-test-demand a refund types, to taking responsibility (sometimes financially) for third parties, to constantly sourcing the best couri...
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Aeropowder tackles the plastic problem with feather based packaging
by: Startacus Admin ~ 28th December 2018Aeropowder is an award winning startup, who's first product pluumo, is the world’s first feather-based thermal packaging material.
Packaging is a problem. It is choking the life out of the oceans, literally, and can take between 450 and 1,000 years to break down when dumped in landfills. Although we have known these things for quite some time, we have only very recently begun to do anything...
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Edible water bottle Ooho receives a flood of crowdfunding support
by: Startacus Admin ~ 18th April 2017Water. It’s wet, runny, and vital to life. It’s also notoriously difficult to make portable without environmentally-unfriendly packaging. There are plenty of reasons to dislike plastic bottles: In the US (because the numbers are more dramatic!), people go through roughly 1500 bottles per second; 80% of these, which is around $1,000,000,000 worth of plastic, end up in landfills to sit f...
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How To Use Packaging To Create a Compelling Brand Experience
by: Startacus Admin ~ 14th November 2016You’ll be hard-pressed to find a greater love than that of the entrepreneur and their product. That love is what makes the day worth starting, but it can be a blinding if your focus stops before its box.
There’s a common trap for entrepreneurs to look at their product by itself and believe that this is all the presentation it needs. Once a customer tries your product, they’ll lo...
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