Emma our Wing Walking Dare Devil!

Ever wanted to do something kerrrazy – CAPS locked, underlined bonkers mad, for your birthday but haven’t had the chance? Well, here is one young lady who showed us how it’s done… Meet Emma. Emma works as an office manager in an IT company in London, and this year would be marking her 40th birthday. [...]

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Shareagift accepted to Seedcamp!

Super excited, big day for the Shareagift team – we’ve been accepted to take part in Seedcamp Berlin! For those of you who may not know, Seedcamp is a mentoring / investment programme for tech startups. That’s the official line – in fact, it’s an ultra-cool, awesomely inspiring initiative that brings fresh, exciting startups and [...]

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Shareagift goes to Google Campus!

Google Campus is outrageously cool. There’s no better way to put it i’m afraid. And what’s more, it’s that sparky, inspiring, original, laid back, get it right without even trying kinda cool that every aspiring startup, VC and tech company around wants to nail. Lightning snapshot of what I’m on about: 1. The plants at [...]

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Shareagift is set Free!

HELLO SHAREAGIFTERS! Happy days people, we’ve got a sliver of sunshine for a split second here in London to bring you some exciting news: As of this morning Shareagift.com is now a free service. That means no more admin fees from us for contributions – and no VAT for those of you in the UK. [...]

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Shareagift for Eddie Izzard’s Death Star Canteen

A sunny Thursday afternoon in London, we’re crying with laughter here in the office over this little gem we just stumbled across below – Eddie Izzard’s Death Star Canteen. Priceless. So good, we’ve decided to help Darth ‘Jeff’ Vader’s cause and create a group gift for him to secure a dry tray for that penne… Please [...]

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Group Gifting Trends

When we started researching the business case for Shareagift.com we were struck by just how little statistical data there is on group gifting trends. I guess this should come as little surprise as group gifting itself is a relatively new trend, albeit rapidly increasing in popularity. For this reason we’ve been intensely curious to see [...]

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Shareagift invites investment partners to join the party

Paging all game-changers and pioneers… Shareagift is looking for forward-thinking investors and business angels who want to help us take business to the next level. Having launched V1 of the site back in September 2011, we’ve been gradually refining the product, learning from our users and tweaking the model to position ourselves for the next [...]

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Facebook Friday!

GOOD MORNING ALL, HAPPY FRIDAY! It’s a gloriously sunny morning here in London – its may be baltic outside (I think we’re hovering somewhere around the one degree mark), but it’s a beautiful day; the air’s clear, the sun’s shining – a perfect morning for sipping hot coffee outside Gav’s (our local coffee stall), watching [...]

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Shareagift Chipping in for UK MPs

If you’ve had an eye on the UK press this week you might have stumbled across a deliciously daft story about UK politicians complaining about the catering in the Houses of Parliament. Chief among the culinary offenders were dry fishcakes, tough thick cut salami and, heaven forbid, badly arranged chips (that’s French fries for our [...]

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Cash or Cashmere for Christmas?

So, we did a little test run last week and asked a few of the girls out there what gift they actually really want this Christmas? If our first three responses are anything to go by it seems the answer to that it – cash, cash and cashmere! What DO us girls really want?  It’s [...]

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