Startup Diaries: A Week In The Life Of TableCrowd

Monday morning is always frantic, but first priority is to catch up with our designer and developer and map out the plan for the week. Our site is up in beta, but we are working on new designs using responsive technology, which means whether you are viewing on phone, tablet or laptop, that the page will fit to your screen size and work properly. As part of the new designs, ...

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Startup Engine Dinner at Chico Bandito

This 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. ...

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Startup Engine Dinner: The Yard (Al Rollo), EC2

A 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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First Start Up Engine Dinner at Giant Robot

Firstly, let me say thank you to every one that attended. I understand that being involved, especially as a founder, in a start up in an incredibly time demanding occupation - but I think as the evening demonstrated, taking time away from the screen to sit down and chew the fat with fellow entrepreneurs is time well spent. The overriding success of the night, was the atmosphere of exchange, openness and ...

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