Oh, it is cold outside! But we are poised to welcome you and share our love of good food, great company, and fabulous speakers ready to share their experience and knowledge of their industry with our Crowd.
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Startup Dinners
Corporate Innovation Dinner with Claire Cockerton – Connecting startups with established brands
Save the date for our Inaugural Corporate Innovation Dinner to connect startups with established brands on July 7, hosted by Sean Obedih at the Eight Club. Our after dinner speaker will be Claire Cockerton, from Pivotal Innovations.
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Read MoreSunday. 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 ...
Read MoreMonday. 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 ...
Read MoreWe 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, ...
Read MoreThis week at the Startup Engine weekly dinner we had a private room booked at Piccolina (great food, great service!). We were lucky enough to be joined by Sylvia Cohen, an expert in public speaking. There were 11 diners, all keen to finely tune their public speaking and presentation skills for a variety of reasons ranging from fund raising to career changes. We had an hour taster session where Sylvia shared ...
Read MoreThis week’s Startup Engine dinner was at the Giant Robot in Farringdon. A quirky mixed menu and many mustached staff! We had 10 diners this week, including a few regulars. Venus was back, 3rd week in a row, with more ideas for her business; she’s ready to map out the site! It was also good to see Doug Haines of London School of Attraction back again. His company offers coaching courses ...
Read MoreThis week’s Startup Engine dinner was at Chico Bandito, a lively little Mexican restaurant and regular spot for TableCrowd dinners. The menu tells me that it’s the best chilli in London, and I believe everything I read, so it must be. We had 10 diners, some familiar faces and some new. It’s nice to see people coming back for more and factoring the Startup Engine dinners into their regular networking plans. ...
Read MoreA stone’s throw from Silicon Roundabout and yet this was the Startup Engine’s first dinner at The Yard. Shame on us! We had a large round table perfect for mingling and 9 diners talking all things startup. The Yard is known for its featured menu item, the yard of pizza. Probably not in line with many people’s new-year-eat-healthy resolutions, but it was ordered by a couple of ladies in a ...
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