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Drover - the startup that offers all inclusive car subscriptions for everyday and private hire drivers across the UK. Cars are expensive. A few of the Startacus team can attest to that. A fairly priced second-hand car is all well and good, but something’s wrong when you pay a few times that for repair. You said the brakes were new! Anyway, the point is insurance is expensive; fuel, repairs...
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Healthy eating made easy thanks to this startup's healthy vending, B2B and white label snack service...Eating healthily is something we all know we should be doing, something few of us actually do, and something that only gets harder when we’re on the move. More of us are likely to choose the chocolate bar over the apple for a snack to accompany lunch or to tide us over until we get home. If...
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If you are not an avid all-year-round gardener, but fancy a wee dabble at a bit of carefree gardening, we think you might be in luck. Plant that thought and read on, as we want to tell you about early stage startup Lazy Flora, the delivery service for ready-made gardens in a box - think 'Hello Fresh' for gardening perhaps... Founded by Claire Ransom, the concept of Lazy Flora came about as a...
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Waldo is on a mission to make contact lenses more affordable than ever... If you are the kind of person who is totally okay with sticking things onto your eyeballs, you might be interested to hear that it’s now, (according to startup Waldo) less expensive and easier than ever to do so. Contact lenses offer advantages over glasses in that they won’t fall off your face and break as ...
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Bibliophiles take note - this one’s for you. Why? Because reading and the joy that it brings is at the very core of our latest Startup of the Week. Illumicrate is a subscription service for book lovers. Here’s how it works. Subscribe to the service and every quarter you will receive a crate filled with all sorts of book goodies. There’ll be at least one newly released book (...
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If you’re struggling with what to buy the geek or gamer in your life for Christmas, then we may have just found the perfect solution thanks to our latest Startup of the Week. Wootbox is a subscription startup dedicated exclusively to geeks and gamers! Each month’s box is based around a mystery theme and contains between 4 and 6 related products. Typical products can include figurines...
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Fed up listening to the media’s gloom and doom merchants? Getting ever more frustrated at hearing how 2016 has been such a dreadful year and how the worst is yet to come? Yep. Us too. It’s therefore always good to hear about things which are altogether more positive, like our latest Startup of the Week, for instance. LivingHygge is a new startup which is on a mission to celebrate ...
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For many years, the beauty industry has been dominated by multinational corporations and global brands, however more recently there has been a noticeable shift with increasing numbers of smaller brands coming on the scene and seeking to make their mark. And the good news is that our latest Startup of the Week is on a mission to help those smaller brands do just that. Little-Known Box is a beauty ...
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As we all know, we’ve always had a reputation as being a nation of animal lovers and it’s a reputation which shows no sign of abating any time soon. It’d be fair to say therefore that pampering and treating our beloved pet pooches and moggies is always high on our agenda. Now, thanks to our latest Startup of the Week, doing just that has become easier than ever before. PawPost...
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Some things are just meant to go together aren’t they? They may be pretty fine on their own but they’re somehow even better when they’re together. Take coffee and chocolate for instance - there can be no denying that one really complements the other. For some of us this perfect combo can be a daily habit whilst for others it might be more of a weekend treat. Whichever camp you f...
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