13 Top Tips for Startups (wanting to be grown up!)

We had a fantastic evening with Andy Batty, General Manager of onefinestay where he spoke at dinner about taking a company from start-up to grown-up. (Read the #AfterDinnerRoundup here.) What limits start-ups is a perception that a shortage of funds is the problem. Here's Andy's top tips for start-ups: Create an employee brand as well as a company brand. You need to try to keep your staff... Start ups often recruit then ...

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Travel industry dinner with onefinestay: #AfterDinnerRoundup

  This week we had the pleasure of Andy Batty, London's General Manager of onefinestay speak at our latest travel and hospitality dinner. Dining in the private room at Jamie's Italian on Denman Street, Andy's fellow diners chatted about the process of taking a business from start-up to grown up. Coming from an entrepreneurial family, it came as no surprise that Andy would delve into the world of startups. After a short ...

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Dinner with onefinestay anyone?

We love the breadth of options now available to people in the travel and hospitality industry, including those provided by the pioneering hospitality brand, onefinestay. If you don't know them already, they give guests the chance to stay in distinctive homes while the owner is out of town. With onefinestay's recent announcement of a $240m strategic deal with AccorHotels, we thought it was high time we organised a dinner to hear all about how they went ...

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Triptease and #Uganda600 dinners #AfterDinnerRoundup

This week saw Alasdair Snow, the co-founder of Triptease speak at our travel startups dinner and The Grow Movement host their #Uganda600 dinner. Here's what went on: Travel Startups: Dine with Alasdair Snow, co-founder of Triptease Alasdair joined a great crowd of travel industry people at Tom's Kitchen, St Katharine Docks on Tuesday evening. There was a great atmosphere as some of the guests were already well-aquainted with each other; there was ...

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