Confused about how to approach funding for your start-up? Keep reading to find out. Following this week's dinner with investor and former financial journalist, Tim Jackson, this post explains a bit about the differences between the options available. Firstly, a short overview of each: Venture capital Venture capitals work on the premise of return investment. In general, they will take a management fee of 2% and then a profit share of 20% of every ...
Read MoreThis week, we were over at The Clerk and Well to dine with Tim Jackson from Lean Investments, and discuss the various options that are available to start-ups who are looking for funding. We had a great crowd of entrepreneurs from different businesses, ranging from the co-founder of Weengs, a logistics and supplies firm, to Clipsta, a sharing app launching in November. Let's find out what went down over Thai beef ...
Read MoreWith our next Digital Beauty Dinner on the horizon, we caught up with Co-founder & CEO of CitySwish, Natalia Obolensky. After attending the Getting into Glossys dinner with Sarah Jossel from Glamour Magazine, we wanted to find out more about CitySwish and how they have changed they way we purchase beauty and leisure. What's the elevator pitch for your business? CitySwish brings on-demand massage, beauty and hair dressing services to your office, home or ...
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Finance , Fundraising , Marketing , Women
Female founders, from vision to product, and social media – Topics at Next week’s dinners
We have a great line up of dinners for next week covering everything from fundraising and social media to product strategy. Tuesday sees Octopus Investments talking at a female founders dinner, and Jumio's VP Product discussing turning your vision into a product. With Wednesday culminating in everything social media and keeping abreast of digital trends.. Spaces are limited, so get your skates on and secure your seat today! Fundraising dinner ...
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Fundraising , Property , Sharing Economy
Co-working, fundraising and sharing economy – #AfterDinnerRoundup
Another busy week here at TableCrowd with three dinners of diverse subjects. We kicked off the week on Tuesday with a dinner about child-friendly co-working and we were joined by Cllr Sarah Hayward, leader of Camden Council for a discussion about options for flexible childcare. On Wednesday, we had tapas and drinks with Daniel Benamram from BlaBlaCar and guests from the sharing economy, whilst over at Lima Floral we caught up with ...
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Food , Fundraising , Marketing , Startup Dinners
Your seed round: Angels, Crowdfunding or VCs? – Next week’s dinner
Money, money, money... Does it make the world go round? We're getting October off to a good start here at TableCrowd with an exciting dinner coming up next week focused exclusively on the options available for you when raising capital at seed stage. Come along next week to hear from our expert speaker, Tim Jackson, and to meet like-minded folk in the same boat as you. Dine with Tim Jackson, partner at Lean ...
Read MoreAnother valuable dinner this week here at TableCrowd over at Jamie's Italian with Adrian Lloyd, Founder Partner of Episode 1 Ventures. Episode 1 invests in seed and series A rounds of up to £2m in software-driven businesses with the potential to transform industries. Episode 1 like entrepreneurs who are data-driven, and are building a portfolio of companies that are using software technology to disrupt their chosen marketplaces. So what does Adrian advise for entrepreneurs who ...
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Fundraising , Property , Sharing Economy
BlaBlaCar, flexible childcare, Dubai-based seed investors – Next week’s dinners at TableCrowd
You may have heard the name 'BlaBlaCar' bandied around at the moment and it certainly is a company that's made us sit up and listen, did you see that they just raised $200m? Next week, we're lucky enough to have Daniel Benamran, the UK Country Manager of dining with us at one our new venues, Mas Q Menos. Alternatively, come and join the conversation about flexible childcare on Tuesday night ...
Read MoreWhat do successful brands have in common? "They have a 'brand DNA'", says Robin Gadsby, one of the world's leading brand strategy and integration experts who has led some of the biggest brands like O2 to success. At our marketing dinner last week, Robin shared some of his tips for creating and maintaining a successful brand: Brand DNA: every brand must establish this at the very beginning Your DNA is made up ...
Read MoreRecently we had a really lovely message from James Gupta, the Founder of Synap, an online education platform that uses AI algorithms and psychology research to enhance the way students and professionals learn. James attributes joining an EdTech dinner in June last year as the starting point of a chain reaction of meetings, events and business decisions which have pushed his business to a completely different place. Here is his ...
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