April 2016 – Table Crowd Blog

by TableCrowd April 28, 2016

Deconstructing company valuations and Subscription businesses #AfterDinnerRoundup

We had a great week talking about everything from subscription business models to how a company is valued. Mark Williams, Director at Results International spoke extensively on deconstructing company valuations last night, whilst Edd the co-founder of Graze kicked the week off on Tuesday night sharing Graze's story. Dinner with Graze for subscription businesses Dining at the fantastic Royal Exchange Grand Cafe, Edd and his fellow diners enjoyed a dinner covering ...

by TableCrowd April 26, 2016

5 lessons for non-tech founders

At dinner last week with Fabrice Bernhard, Co-founder & CTO of Theodo UK, a tech-team-for-hire company, we were lucky for Fabrice to share five lessons he thought would be worthwhile for any non-tech founder to know. Spend 50% on marketing, 50% on tech. Be fast. You can start with as little tech as possible (Did you know Groupon started out with just a blog?) By starting with as little tech ...

by TableCrowd April 26, 2016

Business Spotlights

#BusinessSpotlight on Jacob Cockcroft of The Pigeonhole

We first stumbled across The Pigeonhole and their revolutionary way of approaching reading when they joined us for our Publishing Tech dinner with DC Thomson Ventures (read the #AfterDinnerRoundup here) last month. We were so excited to get the chance to hear from their founder, Jacob Cockcroft, to discover how The Pigeonhole is changing the publishing world. Join Jacob for dinner next week when he dines with Alex Dunsdon ...

by TableCrowd April 25, 2016

Fundraising

The Truth about VC (that no one tells you!) – Next week’s Topic

Getting an insight into the minds of investors can be valuable for those looking for investment or who want a greater understanding of how it all works. And who better to give a no-holds-barred talk than Alex Dunsdon, Investment Director at Saatchinvest? Alex runs Saatchinvest, where they put £50k to £300k in at seed stage for simple, disruptive ideas and he acts on the board of many of the companies he ...

by TableCrowd April 21, 2016

Food , Startup Dinners

Succeeding in FoodTech and dinner for non-tech founders #AfterDinnerRoundup

We organised two tech-related dinners this week. One for non-technical founders looking to build their first tech product and a dinner for those looking to succeed in FoodTech. A fab turnout for both dinners as usual, here's the skinny on what went down: Dinner with The Food Corporation Our TC members had the pleasure of dining with Kimberly Hurd (CEO and founder of Tabl and The Food Corporation) and David Tabizel (founder ...

by TableCrowd April 19, 2016

Startup Dinners , Tips

The importance of a co-founder

Our recent fundraising-themed dinner had Flight Venture's Nancy Fechnay talk on the "do's and don'ts" of fundraising. Having a co-founder cropped up into the conversation which led to the reasons why it makes good sense to have a co-founder. Co-founders are great First and foremost, you need someone to share the stress with. Not only does it help to have someone to bounce ideas off (and complement your skills with their own) ...

by TableCrowd April 18, 2016

Finance , Startup Dinners

Subscription businesses and Company Valuations – Topics at next week’s dinners

We have two great dinners coming up next week, first is a dinner for subscription businesses with none other than Graze's co-founder Edd Read on Tuesday. Followed on Wednesday by a dinner catering to the inquisitive minds keen to understand company valuations. Read on for the low-down on each dinner: Dine with co-founder of Graze: dinner for subscription businesses If you're interested in the nuts and bolts of how a subscription business ...

by TableCrowd April 15, 2016

Fundraising , Tips

Nancy Fechnay on the “do’s and don’ts” of fundraising #AfterDinnerRoundup

As always our dinners with VCs prove to be particularly popular and this week's dinner with Nancy Fechnay was of no exception. A venture capitalist for 5 years, Nancy currently advises seed companies, so her talk on the "do's and don'ts" of fundraising was quite a hit. So much so in fact we've got two Top Tips articles, one on The Importance of a Co-Founder, and the other on ...

by TableCrowd April 12, 2016

Business Spotlights

#BusinessSpotlight on Dan Roberts of Lacuna Digital

One of our fave TC members (and the occasional TC host for us) Dan Roberts, has been busy building the next #revlessrevolution as the founder and CEO of Lacuna Digital. As a long-time diner and friend of the TableCrowd team, we have finally managed to pin him down to do a quick spotlight on his business. What's the elevator pitch for Lacuna Digital? Lacuna Digital has developed the world’s first digital ...