As many of us are aware, search engine optimisation (SEO) is a form of marketing that means your business will appear more highly in the organic search rankings on Google. It is important for credibility, awareness, traffic and ultimately, new customers. Done right, it can bring the highest ROI of all forms of marketing. So “doing it right” is the topic at next week's dinner. with Simon Schnieder, founder of ...
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This week's dinners covered the topics of marketing and fundraising, with speakers from the investment and media worlds. Tom Maddocks, ex-BBC2 reporter and now one of the UK's leading authorities on media training and presentation coaching. Dinner with Tracy Doree, founding partner at Spring Partners As part of our 'Meet the investor' series, Tracy Doree spoke extensively about the fundraising process and how to do it successfully. Having experienced fundraising from both ...
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The next EdTech dinner is firmly in our calendar so please add it to yours too; Bethany Koby, founder of Technology Will Save Us is joining as our after-dinner speaker next week. Technology Will Save Us creates the most accessible ecosystem of DIY gadget kits and resources that help families, educators and young people make, play, code and invent using technology. They recently won Best Hardware Startup at the Europas. After Raising £1.2m from London-based VCs, ...
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Our speaker, Felix Rossknecht, spoke at a recent dinner about building a successful subscription business, here's what he had to say about how to make a subscription model work for your business. There's a few areas to consider when thinking about how to make subscriptions work for you and your business, these are product, flexibility and experience. Product Customers care about your product, not the subscription. It's the product they buy into and ...
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With the idea of subscriptions gaining traction over the last 5 years, it's not surprising that it's now a household name in terms of business models. So, we thought a dinner with the topic of building a successful subscription business would be perfect for our TableCrowd members. Felix Rossknecht, a freelance growth consultant, provided ample advice and knowledge on subscription businesses. Working with both HelloFresh and Pact Coffee, Felix has ...
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Speaking with Matt Lerner, London Partner of 500 startups at dinner last week, he covered the topic of how startups can get a big, fat yes for their application to join their accelerator programme. Here's what you need to know: How 500 Startups invests To date, 500 Startups has Invested in 1500 startups, in 52 countries, with offices in 29 countries. That's a total of $250M invested, with the biggest investment being ...
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If you're looking to do a spot of networking, why not get some insider knowledge while you're at it? Up next week we have media expert Tom Maddocks talking on how to get journalists interested in your company, as well as Tracy Doree, founding partner of Spring Partners chatting about getting investment for your business. Getting journalists interested in your company. Dine with expert, Tom Maddocks Getting press coverage for your business ...
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As a high-calibre mentor in the valley in the US, Matt Lerner, 500 Startups' London Partner, has been hiring and building growth team for 10 years. His main tip about recruitment for his fellow diners at the recent dinner he spoke at was: Hiring the best people is critical. He looks for people who are: Humble. People are failing all the time; some people try to hide it. Curious. People who are ...
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We had two fab dinners this week with none other than 500 startups' Matt Lerner talking on things growth and the MetaSpeech ladies helping their fellow diners to perfect that pitch and own the room. Public Speaking dinner with MetaSpeech We mixed it up a little on Monday night when Emma and Marianna, co-founders of MetaSpeech joined us for dinner at The Anthologist. With a wonderfully intimate group, Emma and Marianna wove ...
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Our wonderful host, Claire (who's also the CEO of Grow Movement), had such a great time dining with Emma and Mariana founders of Metaspeech that we had to share her report verbatim. I love public speaking as part of my day job as CEO of a charity. I love to talk with passion about what I do. But how often do I get feedback? Not very often. As our story is ...
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