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Aiming to make the environment and people healthier, two Strathclyde University masters students Omar Koryakin (Managing Director) and Shwetal Shah (Market Developer) have designed an electric bike that is operated by a powerful hub motor which is attached to high capacity lithium-ion batteries. Shwetal Shah, Market Developer and Startacus member, highlight the miles covered by the young company ...
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A self interview with startup marketer Marc Duke... Marc Duke, startup marketer and Startacus member takes up the challenge and self interviews right here for your reading pleasure. So if you’re interested in finding out what a startup marketer is, what a startup marketer does, and a little more about Marc full stop, then read on! So Marc Duke - how would you describe yourself? I am a B2B...
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Kent based Industrial Designer, Russ Carley, recently showed his concept design for a disaster relief shelter, Bodopods, at the Makegood festival of culture, creativity & entrepreneurship as part of his School for Creative Startups course.  That S4CS event was filled with all sorts of interesting people doing all sorts of interesting things - people like Natalia Komis who recently did a ...
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Allan Szymczyk is the founder of Agora Food & Beverages - nothing revolutionary about a Food and Beverages Company perhaps.  However the idea behind Agora is to create a business that is completely run by an online community so that it benefits society & its business stakeholders as much as it benefits its shareholders. Fab idea and whilst there's some way to go to make it a fully fl...
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Back in 2008, Emma Coles aunched Ji Ji Kiki, a then-small website selling vintage and handmade jewellery. Fast forward to 2013 and after many, many hours each month of searching around the internet to find bloggers to work with and new places to advertise, Emma just thought there had to be an easier way for both the bloggers and the businesses wanting to work with the publishers to be connect...
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Frankie Kearney, Co-Founder of ‘Discovery’ app Sliide (and Startacus member!) talks to us about the idea, the journey, Twitters high-profile acquisition of Cover, and collaboration opportunities for Sliide with the UK Start-up community. What is Sliide? Sliide is an Android app that enables you to discover and engage with cool content such as blogs, brands, events, trailers, apps or ...
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Mission Possible is the newest addition in the Digital, Tech, and Startup community that helps empower & aid collaborative consumption. Intrigued? Well, read on for Tara Dalrymple’s Self Interview for Startacus... Let’s start by talking about what Mission Possible is and whom it serves: Mission Possible is an online and mobile marketplace that allows posters (clients) to outsourc...
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New Startacus member, Ben Fisher of Appdrops share's his story with Startacus on his journey from Surfing to Digital Marketing to Tech Startup...A little about me. I’m from Cornwall where I spent most of my early days surfing and hanging out on the beach with friends. For the last 6 years I have been based in London working in digital marketing. I decided last year that it was time for a cha...
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StudioAlt is an e-commerce store that supplies physical toolkits to the Digital, Tech and Startup community to help empower & aid collaboration. Intrigued? Well read on for Tony Shorts Self Interview...What is StudioAlt? StudioAlt is an e-commerce store that supplies physical toolkits to the Digital, Tech and Startup community to help empower and aid collaboration. Currently this foc...
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Memeoirs is a webapp that allows anyone to create a physical book out of emails and is the first commercial project for Giacomo Miceli and startup Fitmemes. Giacomo self interviewed on Startacus to tell us all little more about Memeoirs and his opinions on being a self-starter full stop.  How did you come up with the idea for Memeoirs? Like so many startups before us, we started buildi...
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