Introducing 1000 Minds

1000 Minds is a new dining club on TableCrowd. The driver has been requests from our community, primarily our speakers, who have asked for more intimate dinners tailored to them. So, voila! Enjoy dinner drinks and a chance to meet…  On the invite list are people making their mark, whether business owners, C-level executives, influencers, experts or just very well connected. They all believe success is more likely with the support of others ...

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Dinner with Carlos Espinal – #AfterDinnerRoundup by Alex Price, 93digital

We always enjoy reading about our dinners through the eyes of our members and this write-up is no exception! "Anyone who runs a business will quickly discover what their most valuable asset is - time. Balancing time and choosing where to spend those extremely rare spare bits is a challenge at best, especially when it comes to networking. But when the opportunity comes along to have dinner with Carlos Espinal, Partner at ...

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#BusinessSpotlight on Warren Paull of Commercial Outcomes

Warren Paull, Managing Consultant at Commercial Outcomes, first joined us for dinner back in March when Jim Kite from Starcom MediaVest Group was talking about connecting established brands with startups over dinner. Fast forward a few months and Warren now has a fair few dinners under his belt, with the latest being the dinner with Freelancer's Joe Griston covering the companies story from tech startup to IPO. Here, Warren talks ...

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#BusinessSpotlight on Alex Hanson-Smith of Inploi

Alex Hanson-Smith, co-founder & CPO of inploi, joined us for dinner with The Food Corporation recently, when they spoke on the topic of succeeding in the FoodTech industry. Here's what Alex had to say about his company, inploi. What's the elevator pitch for your business? inploi is an on-demand jobs platform that makes staffing in hospitality smarter, cheaper & more efficient. Our web & mobile apps connect job seekers with suitable roles allowing them ...

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#BusinessSpotlight on Philip Kallberg of EatAbout

Philip Kallberg, CEO of EatAbout, recently joined us for dinner with The Food Corporation, covering the topic of succeeding in the FoodTech industry, along with grabbing breakfast with our CEO, Kate Jackson at one of her regular Breakfast for Founders meet ups. What's the elevator pitch for your business? EatAbout is your own private restaurant in the home of a chef, bringing you closer to your food than ever before. You’ll meet ...

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#BusinessSpotlight on Fabrice Bernhard of Theodo

Fabrice Bernhard recently spoke at a dinner for non-technical founders on building your first tech product. As a co-founder and CTO of Theodo, Fabrice's business is effectively a 'tech-team-for-hire' working with both startups and large corporations. Here's what he had to say when we put his business under the spotlight. What's the elevator pitch for your business? We build web and mobile solutions in a leaner, more cost-effective way. Our teams of ...

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#BusinessSpotlight on Iris Anson of Solely Original

Iris Anson, founder of Solely Original first joined TableCrowd in January this year, signing up to one of our popular women's only dinners. Since then, Iris has been a major TC advocate and heavily involved in the networking experience joining 12 dinners so far this year (with two more lined up for September too!). Catch up with Iris either at the dinner with Seedcamp, or DN Capital, and find out ...

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#BusinessSpotlight on Alex Price of 93Digital

Alex Price is a seasoned TableCrowd member, who first joined us back in May last year when Tony Wollenberg, founder of City Index spoke after dinner. As a regular diner at TableCrowd, we're pleased to have caught up with him earlier this year to put the spotlight on his business 93Digital. If you want to meet up with Alex, you can join him for dinner tomorrow, where Simon Schnieders will ...

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CleanTech & Pavegen – Next Week’s Dinner

Join award winning entrepreneur Laurence Kemball-Cook for dinner next week, and hear the story of Pavegen, a flooring technology that generates electricity from the kinetic energy of footsteps. That's a pretty neat piece of tech! Laurence will be sharing tales of fundraising and rapid growth (their CrowdCube raise exceeded their target by 253%), trade missions globally, rubbing shoulders with governments and the UN and playing a key part in inspiring environmental change around the ...

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The real Zoopla story: zero to £1bn IPO in 7 years using SEO – Next week’s dinner

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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