TableCrowd members looking to get a no-holds-barred look at VC investment were in luck last night joining Alex Dunsdon for dinner at Jamie's Italian where he spoke extensively on pitching to investors. Alex runs Saatchinvest, where they invest up to £300k in early stage tech startups. Anyone looking to get investment from Saatchinvest gets 20mins to shine before hearing yes or no. And as they only invest in 4 or 5 ...
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We first met John Radford, founder of Borne Digital Ltd, when he joined our popular dinner with Forward Partners back in February. With their work vested in assisting founders with their digital startups, we thought we'd grab a quick five minutes with John to take him through our #BusinessSpotlight interview. Here's what he had to say: What's the elevator pitch for your business? We are a digital products lab designing and building ...
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With the first May Bank Holiday out of the way - and dinner with Alex Dunsdon happening this week - we're building on that momentum by following up with dinners on Startup tech stories and meeting the friendliest startup accelerator in town. Next Tuesday we will be joined by Joe Griston from Freelancer, swiftly followed by Diane Perlman, Global CMO at MassChallenge on Wednesday. Take a more detailed look at ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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) ...
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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 ...
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