Just a couple of days until our Education Startups #MeetandEat at the Open Kitchen in Shoreditch. A big thanks for Tes Macpherson, Founder of PTA Social for her spotlight interview and for telling all! What's the elevator pitch for your startup? PTAsocial provides private social networks to help school parents get to know each other and fundraise for their school. It’s easy and fun to use, and makes organising big events together a piece ...
Read MoreIt's time to meet Tom Hatton from ReferenceME. Tom will be at our edtech dinner next week, but for those of you that won't be, here's a little more about him. What's the elevator pitch for your startup? ReferenceME is Referencing, Made Easy. Scan a book or journals barcode with our app or use our web platform to create citations in seconds. What were you doing before you launched your startup? I ran ...
Read MoreIt's just wall-to-wall good news on this blog! We are pleased to announce that Bernhard Niesner, CEO & Co-Founder of busuu, will be joining us and giving an after dinner talk with Q&A at our Education Startups #MeetandEat next week (26th Feb). busuu is the world's largest social network for language learning with more than 35 million users. Their goal is to revolutionise the way people learn languages via the use of ...
Read MoreWe are pleased to announce that our startup dinners have a new sponsor. Blick Rothenberg are sponsoring their first dinner next week. Education Startups #MeetandEat on 26th February at The Open Kitchen, Shoreditch. We first met them at Vator Splash London 2013 when we were pitching TableCrowd. Blick Rothenberg are tech and startup focused and are perfectly placed to provide support to the community. Their Tech City team works with entrepreneurs and ...
Read MoreTime flies! Our education startups dinner is next week (Tuesday 26th) and we wanted to introduce our partner for the evening, Fluency.io. We met Fluency.io's co-founder, Sinead Mac Manus whilst we were both pitching at Vator Splash in London and the rest is history! What's the elevator pitch for your startup? Fluency is a learning platform and crowd work marketplace that gets young people into work. We teach 18 to 25 year ...
Read MoreOur Education Startups “Meet and Eat” is fast approaching and in the lead up to the event, we will be introducing some of the impressive companies that will be joining the dinner. In the spotlight today is Tutor Fair and Samuel Floy. What's the elevator pitch for your startup? Tutorfair is the “one for one” tutoring marketplace. It’s the easiest way to find the best tutors, and for every student who pays, we ...
Read MoreOur Education Startups "Meet and Eat" is in two weeks, so we wanted to start introducing the companies that are coming, through a series of startup spotlight posts. The guestlist is looking great! Confirmed so far with more joining everyday, we have: Fluency, Mendeley, Tutor Fair, Ed Place, Knowledge Transmission, PTA Social, Interview Bull, Pre-ued, edspire, ReferenceME, Stepup.io, Ellumia & Coding Cupboard. We're also pleased to welcome a Huffington Post contributor ...
Read MoreThe plans are in full swing for our Education Startups Meet & Eat. The date is 26th February 2014, 7pm, and we've chosen to host it at Open Kitchen, Shoreditch, as this is the training restaurant for the London City Hospitality Centre (LCHC). All students prepare and serve food and drinks as part of their vocational studies. Open Kitchen puts its learners centre stage and provides a realistic working experience to support ...
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Startup Dinners
Tales from the Trenches: Startup Journeys with Sokratis Papafloratos, tech entrepreneur & co-founder of Trusted Places
Introducing our first "Tales from the Trenches" dinner of 2014 - and we're very excited about it! Our "Tales from the Trenches" dinners feature interesting and successful startup founders who share their journey or their expertise on a particular topic in an informal after dinner talk. Our dinners are intimate networking events, where everyone's voice is heard. You will meet everyone properly and you'll be able to ask your questions ...
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Marketing , Startup Diaries
Startup Engine: Startup Engine dinner: Develop your value proposition & get growth
Love Tuesday nights at #StartupEngine dinners and last night was no exception. The only negative for me is that I have probably ordered everything on Chico Bandito's menu at least twice. This week we were joined by @WebbJS, founder of Get2Growth and startups lead at Rackspace. With 20 years experience across multiple tech sectors, John works with startup teams to devise and develop their Value Propositions, and then make them a ...
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