Aceify want to help more people include sports and fitness into their life - for the benefit of their overall health. But, they are not stopping there...
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Community News , Fundraising , Speakers
Rabble are crowdfunding to improve our nations wellbeing – get involved!
Rabble is solving the huge global crisis regarding mental and physical wellbeing - simply by gamifying exercise. They launched a crowdfunding round to enable their community to participate in Rabble's future successes. Read all about it...
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Featured , Fundraising , Speakers
Executing a fast & successful crowdfunding campaign: guest post by TableCrowd speaker Joe Carnell, co-founder of Growth Hat
Back in October we had the great opportunity to host a dinner with Growth Hat, a specialist pre-seed & seed crowdfunding agency. Joe Carnell was our speaker and he shared all on executing a fast & successful crowdfunding campaign. We invited Joe to share some of his insights for you in this post. Joe Carnell is a multiple award-winning, pro startup, brand focused, tech-loving entrepreneur and co-founder of Growth Hat. He broke ...
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I have two crowdfunding experiences - and over the years have met 100s of investors. I found that the investors you meet when crowdfunding fall broadly into ten categories. Some good, some not so good. If you’re crowdfunding, read on for a useful heads-up. If you have experienced crowdfunding, my views may resonate! If you invest in crowdfunding businesses and you identify yourself in one of the categories, this message is ...
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You've decided that you need to raise money! Growing some thick skin is a good start but read on for 10 other tips on how to successfully close your funding round. 1. Your deck. Know every last detail but don't always include it Expect it to take a long time to perfect your pitchdeck. It makes you think deeply about all parts of your business and pushes you to do more research ...
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Business Dinners , Featured , Fundraising
Dinner with Forward Partners #AfterDinnerRoundup by Victoria Burlacu of Faber Novella
We love hearing first hand from our members about their experiences at our dinners. It helps us do better - and it gives a useful insight into the experience for people thinking about dining with us. Great to hear from regular diner, Victoria Burlacu, founder of Faber Novella.... "There are so many events taking place in London that networking can easily turn into a full-time job. While I am a great believer ...
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Business Dinners , Featured , Fundraising
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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This week's dinners covered the topics of marketing and fundraising, with speakers from the investment and media worlds. Tom Maddocks, ex-BBC2 reporter and now one of the UK's leading authorities on media training and presentation coaching. Dinner with Tracy Doree, founding partner at Spring Partners As part of our 'Meet the investor' series, Tracy Doree spoke extensively about the fundraising process and how to do it successfully. Having experienced fundraising from both ...
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Speaking with Matt Lerner, London Partner of 500 startups at dinner last week, he covered the topic of how startups can get a big, fat yes for their application to join their accelerator programme. Here's what you need to know: How 500 Startups invests To date, 500 Startups has Invested in 1500 startups, in 52 countries, with offices in 29 countries. That's a total of $250M invested, with the biggest investment being ...
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We had two fab dinners this week with none other than 500 startups' Matt Lerner talking on things growth and the MetaSpeech ladies helping their fellow diners to perfect that pitch and own the room. Public Speaking dinner with MetaSpeech We mixed it up a little on Monday night when Emma and Marianna, co-founders of MetaSpeech joined us for dinner at The Anthologist. With a wonderfully intimate group, Emma and Marianna wove ...
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