Startup Dinners – Page 4 – Table Crowd Blog

by TableCrowd November 16, 2015

How to be a ‘Talent Magnet’ and financing options in The City – topics at Next Week’s dinners

Making your company a 'Talent Magnet' before everyone knows who you are Like any business, startups need to attract the best talent they can afford, in each and every discipline in order to make waves in their marketplace. This is particularly important when scaling up. Brands like Apple, Google, AirBNB and Burberry are of course talent magnets, and that’s all very good if you’re a multinational who’s invested in building a ...

by TableCrowd November 6, 2015

9 predictions for the future of retail

Following this week's dinner with Cate Trotter from Insider Trends, this post delves into the *future* to see what the world of retail will be like in 5 years time. Grab your hover boards! Cate's key trends for the future of retail All superfluity will be removed from the consumer journey; e.g. going to a shop and finding that the item that you wanted isn't in stock. Minimising returns. Companies like M and ...

by TableCrowd October 30, 2015

Fundraising , Startup Dinners , Tips

5 tips on how to grow a business

Following our fundraising dinner with Ross Williams, CEO of Venntro, we've got some extra-special tips on how to grow your business. Ross famously grew his empire from next to nothing, and here are some of his tips on how to achieve similar success: 90% marketing, 10% product. You might have an amazing idea, but how are you going to acquire users? Make your partners pay for the marketing. This is how ...

by TableCrowd October 29, 2015

Fundraising , Startup Dinners

The Bakery; building a successful business without funding – #AfterDinnerRoundups

What better way to learn about how to grow your start-up than by speaking with successful entrepreneurs who have already climbed the mountain standing in front of you? That's exactly what we did this week; on Monday, we enjoyed an intimate dinner at the spectacular Lima Floral with speaker Andrew Humphries and guests. Andrew is no stranger to the start-up process, and conversation carried on well into the night. We ...

by TableCrowd October 26, 2015

Startup Dinners

The future of retail – next week’s dinners at TableCrowd

With Christmas shopping just around the corner, retail is on our minds next week. So what does the future of retail look like? With the growth of e-commerce, will we even need shops any more? Next week we'll be focusing on key trends and the future of retail at a dinner with speaker Cate Trotter from Insider Trends. Why not pop by for dinner and drinks next Wednesday with Cate... Key ...

by TableCrowd October 22, 2015

Health and Beauty , Startup Dinners

Digital Beauty dinner, Blaze – #AfterDinnerRoundups

We finished our jam-packed week of dinners with MyBeautyMatches' latest Digital Beauty dinner and our Tech Stories dinner with Blaze's founder on creating ultimate products for urban cyclists. If you haven't done so already, please do check out the highlights from the first three dinners we had this week here. Digital Beauty dinner - the dos and don'ts of creating your own brand We dined in the sumptuous surroundings of Pall ...

Finance , Fundraising , Startup Dinners

Building a successful business without funding, The Bakery, eToro: next week’s dinners at TableCrowd

As October rolls on here at TableCrowd, we've got some inspiring speakers to answer all your burning questions about how to get your business off the ground. Next week is all about start-up journeys, from idea to conception to funding, and we'll be dining with some guests who know exactly how crazy those journeys can be, like Ross Williams, who set up his incredibly successful empire Venntro in a tiny ...

Food , Health and Beauty , Marketing , Property , Startup Dinners

FoodTech, PropertyTech, Mobile Marketing and more – Next Week’s dinners

Next week is incredibly busy at TableCrowd - it is crammed and bursting full of dinners. Let's repeat that: Next week is busy. Immensely busy! We have dinners covering everything from mobile marketing, PropertyTech and promoting your own brand to tech stories and London FoodTech Week. Take a look now and see which dinners are for you. The future of mobile marketing with Oisin Lunny Dine with Oisin Lunny and discuss the future ...

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 ...

Fundraising , Marketing , Startup Dinners

Seedcamp, Forward Partners and Robin Gadsby, brand strategist #AfterDinnerRoundups

Last week, we got the chance to pick the brains of two seed investors: Matthew Bradley of Forward Partners and Reshma Sohoni of Seedcamp. Also in the mix was our dinner with Robin Gadsby, one of the world's leading brand strategy and integration experts whose clients include Google, Gettaxi and Rocket Fuel. To learn about what they expect from the companies that they work with, read on below... Dinner for solo founders with ...