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The role that UK cities play in both the national and global economy is changing. While London has long been the nation’s de facto centre for business activity, recent change has brought significant growth and development to other parts of the country.Know Your Money, one of the UK’s leading independent financial comparison websites, recently conducted research to find out which UK cit...
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With our Sheffield Startup month now well underway (and going rather swimmingly), it’s time for us to give a cheery wave to the next city in our Startup tour which happens to be Dublin. What better place for the first of our visits to the Irish republic than the nations fair capital, the jewel of its eastern coast and home to one of the most diverse, cosmopolitan and thriving communities in...
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Two startup car related posts in one day - but more on that later… Last year we featured the Startup Rally, a literal drive around Europe over 19 days where a group of startup Founders accelerated around various European startup cities in an attempt to learn from each other, each startup city and also gain the opportunity to pitch for investment from a whole series of VCs and Angels. And...
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6 Reasons why Manchester is Top 5 Startup City... As you may know July is our Manchester 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. To this end, and to kick things off, we've been in touch with Col Skinner, founder of independent digital consultancy Profoundry and all...
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That's right you lovely Mancunians, we are very pleased to announced that Manchester has been selected as the August Startup city in our series of month long features of some of the UK and Ireland's most burgeoning startup hubs!   Throughout August we will be putting the startup scene of Manchester well and truly under our proverbial microscope as we take a good long look at everything fro...
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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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That’s right all you lovely Glaswegians - we are very pleased to announce that Glasgow has been selected to be the third city to get its own month long feature-fest as part of our Startup Cities series here on Startacus.net. So what does that mean? Well, it means that for one whole month (July) we’ll be putting the startup scene of Glasgow in our spotlight as we take a good long look...
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You have probably noticed that May has been designated as our Belfast startup month, where we take a long look at the events, the people and general goings on that make Belfast the startup place that it is. So far we have heard from plenty of local entrepreneurial, startup-type folk who have all been very keen to share what they think of Belfast as a place to start a business. But we wondered &ls...
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We are absolutely over the moon and jumping for joy that May is our Startup Cities Belfast Month - a whole 4 weeks dedicated to all things Startup in the lovely city of Belfast. Last week we had a chat with Dave Patterson, CEO of Belfast based digital ecommerce business ‘Sophia’ where he told us all about his innovative rapidly growing business. Now we pick his brain again (figurative...
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You can’t fail to have noticed that May is our Startup Cities...Belfast Month, a whole 4 weeks dedicated to all things Startup in the lovely city of Belfast...Woo! The city has a thriving tech community with plenty of home grown brands looking to make it big on the world stage. During a recent Belfast Startup networking event we were lucky enough to run into one such company ‘Sophia&r...
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