Startup Diaries: Back To London Town

Sunday. Fresh off the plane from a very successful trip to San Francisco and NYC and headed straight to the SilkFred sample sale in Brick Lane. SilkFred is the online destination for emerging fashion designers and CEO & Founder Emma Watkinson has hosted a few TableCrowd fashion tables. It was a buzzy event packed out with designers and shoppers. Monday. (Jetlagged). No rest for the wicked. Before my trip, I bagged a demo ...

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Social Dining Quiz Champions March 06th

Introducing the social dining TableCrowd quiz champions of March 2013. Thanks to all that came to The Stonemasons Arms - next stop EggHeads, watch out Kevin Ashman. Keep an eye on our crowd Food and Fun Stuff for the next quiz to be announced. Great chance to meet some new people over dinner and potentially grab a cash prize.

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Startup Diaries: TableCrowd goes to NYC

Last month, TableCrowd was accepted to join Chinwag’s 2013 Digital Mission to NYC, so as well as the great schedule of events arranged by the Chinwag team, I set up a number of other meetings for fundraising and partnership purposes to maximize the benefit from the trip. So here is a little insight into two of the most hectic weeks of my life...! Monday. From the comfort of my downtown Airbnb digs, ...

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Man V Food Take On The Naga Viper Chilli

As our Man V Food Crowd psyche themselves up for tomorrow's chicken wing food challenge at The Red Dog Saloon in Hoxton, we have come up with the top 5 things to conquer the 'Naga Viper Chilli Wings!'  6 pieces of chicken in ten minutes without a drink. This challenge is the UK's hottest & it's pretty famous. Wikipedia - The Naga Viper was created in England by chilli farmer Gerald Fowler of ...

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Start up Diaries: TableCrowd goes to San Francisco

Monday. We’re in full fund raising mode, so as well as juggling the demands of the day-to-day business, I’m running around the City and West End for fund raising meetings. After missing out on their last demo & drinks event, I booked a demo slot on 25 February with Tech Meetups at Google Campus. It’s a good opportunity to further improve our pitch and receive feedback from London’s tech community. I’m off to ...

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Valentines and Bacon

This has to be the best Valentines day poem ever and it makes complete sense; Roses are red (true) as well as bacon and poems are really hard to piece together and of course bacon (exactly). One for all the foodie lovers of London. Happy Valentines day to all. Fancy meeting some of our Hungry Romantics Crowd at our table tonight. Join the table here Single & Mingle Valentines Dinner at Tiger Tiger ...

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Startup Engine dinner at Thai Thai

We dined at the rather busy Thai Thai on Old Street this week, a stone’s throw from London’s booming Tech City. Jon Prove joined us for the first time. I met Jon after hearing him deliver a fantastic demo (with prizes for those that listened most carefully!) at Tech Meetups last month for his startup Ginicam. Ginicam allows you to trade online, in real time, earning money without risk. For example, ...

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