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Applications are open until the 28th April to apply to pitch at upSTART 2017, the startup pitching battle from Digital DNA, with the fab news that the winner prize fund has increased to a whooping £150k in value. Digital DNA upSTART 2017, launched in partnership with Startacus, are currently on the lookout for the most impressive startup in Europe to win the coveted upSTART 2017 title. In ...
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Prison walls are never built to scale, but startups are. We took a look over the recent StartPlanetNI demo-day at Crumlin Road Gaol, with their current cohort of startups pitching for their ‘big break’ and to hopefully lockdown future investment... We love a good startup pitch competition or accelerator program demo day here at Startacus HQ. From the bizarre but super 'cool', Polar Be...
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Startacus takes a look at the 10 women-led startups, announced as the finalists of the Women Startup Challenge Europe. A month or so ago, we wrote about The Women Startup Challenge Europe - a pitch competition that showcases and funds innovative, women-led tech startups that are solving problems for people, businesses, and the planet. Organised by Women Who Tech, and held in partnership with Cra...
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We’ve written plenty about startup pitch competitions here at Startacus. But if you want shock value, we think this one pretty much beats the rest. Think ice bucket challenge x 100, whilst also giving your startup pitch, and you’ve kinda got the concept of Polar Bear Pitching. We only heard about Polar Bear Pitching just after this years event had already taken place (14th a...
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Key Slides of a Pitch Deck A pitch deck is a brief presentation, consisting of set of visual slides (in PowerPoint, for example), used during…well, pitches, most often to potential investors. It is an overview of your business, covering all aspects while remaining concise. This is an elevator pitch with visuals…if the elevator was hand-cranked and going to the top of a skyscraper. ...
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In April 2016, a new global stage for tech innovation is coming to Manchester, with a huge pitch opportunity for Startups!  Business RocksTechnology, Music, and Investment summit offers a fantastic opportunity for aspiring tech start-ups to accelerate their growth and showcase their innovations to a wide and relevant audience. Innov8 2016- 100 Startups Doing Battle Innov8 PITCH-BATTLE ...
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Innovation is coming thick and fast within the app ecosystem at the moment, perhaps at a faster rate than ever before. Wonderful news for everyone of course, but for the enterprising developer / tech startup founder it also means that making yourself heard and getting your innovation noticed by the right people, can sometimes seem like a Herculean challenge. Over the past number of years we have...
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