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Sheffield based early-stage startups and entrepreneurs take note - here's the lowdown on key startup support and help available where you are... Away from the established startup hubs like London, the support for setting up a business isn’t always so clear. It’s not a lack of support, just a quieter ecosystem that takes a little more work to unearth. We want to help with this by highl...
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Sheffield’s Startup Weekend has never failed to put on a seriously impressive show and of course this year’s event, which took place last weekend, was no exception. For those of you who may not know, Startup Weekend, which takes place in cities across the world, is an intensive competition and learning opportunity in which teams carry a business proposition from the idea stage to mini...
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Our Sheffield startup month is whizzing by and we have been blown away (metaphorically of course) by the level of talented and innovative self starters we have been lucky enough to come across… like Celina and Laura from Freshly Squeezed Events Company. They have had quite a year of it so far, and were only too pleased to share some of their experience of starting a business in Sheffield w...
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We have learned many things since the beginning of our 'Startup Cities’ tour, but what seems most prevalent (no matter where we go) is that a city’s value is so much greater than the mere the sum of its parts. Stripped back to their bare bones, all cities are basically the same. Whilst geographical locations and superficial details may vary, when it comes down to it, all cities are ju...
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As part of our Sheffield startup month, Samantha Deakin from the University of Sheffield Enterprise and Startup Weekend tells us all about her self-starter journey and some of the cities  great startup events, meet-ups and programmes One week after accepting an offer to come to Sheffield to study for my degree, I was pretty concerned. I’d mentioned it to a couple of locals in the pub ...
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