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Have more beautiful words ever been spoken in the English language? Probably yes, we hear this fella Shakespeare was quite the wordsmith… but to our ears the words “grow” and “aquaponically” are sweeter than any sonnet.   So what is Vegua?  This great little idea, which is coming soon to Kickstarter, is something of a cross between an aquarium and a plant...
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If you are anything like us then this is one of your favourite day-dreams…special powers…a secret identity…a diabolical villain named ‘Dr Pelican’ or the like...a battle to save the city…the greatest superhero the world has ever known… YOU!However it can be difficult maintain such an image of oneself as a superhero, particularly when you find yourself...
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Startacus member Silvestre Ramos has come up with a brilliantly simple idea- a men's tie that is also a wallet. He has spent a long time designing and developing his product called Ejamsi and is now in the process of crowdfunding via kickstarter. We loved his original and quirky idea and were keen to learn more, so we invited him to tell us more with a Startacus self interview…. and here i...
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We all have that moment in our lives that we know we have a great idea. So we start working on it, maybe put a few hundred bucks in and then let it die. The list of excuses goes on: “I didn’t have time”, “I didn’t have the money”, “I didn’t have the support I needed”. I was one of those people. I let many ideas die on the table because I self-s...
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Coding is no longer the domain of just the super savvy techno genius that it once was you know - it’s one of a growing group of IT skills which are becoming ever more important in lots of different jobs and businesses. Those of you who are regular patrons of the startup/tech/IT world are probably well acquainted with coding and its useful applications (you may skip the next paragraph if you...
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Mornings… we wouldn’t exactly say they are our favourite time of day. Granted, there is coffee (which is obviously great) but alongside it comes a serving of dreary eyes, incessant yawning, nodding heads, sardine-can style commutes and innumerable other unpleasantries which often make us wish we had never gotten out of bed in the first place!  Those of you with super-long elepha...
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