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: Startup Engine dinner: Develop your value proposition & get growth
Love Tuesday nights at #StartupEngine dinners and last night was no exception. The only negative for me is that I have probably ordered everything on Chico Bandito's menu at least twice. This week we were joined by @WebbJS, founder of Get2Growth and startups lead at Rackspace. With 20 years experience across multiple tech sectors, John works with startup teams to devise and develop their Value Propositions, and then make them a ...
Read MoreProbably the last update of the year, as the Christmas madness descends and we battle to get everything we set out to do in 2013 done! (No time for blogging). We had a great Startup Engine dinner at Chico Bandito for people with exciting ideas brewing, who were just getting things going or had plans to do so. Founders' Hive also hosted their first dinner for their growing community on the ...
Read MoreChico Bandito on Luke Street is fast becoming the weekly home of The Startup Engine. Why? I’m a fan of the large square table that allows one conversation even when there are 10 diners, the jugs of cocktails and the tasty-not-too-expensive food. And, tonight our waitress treated us to tequila shots on the house, which received varying receptions from diners considering it was a Tuesday night, but a lovely touch ...
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 MoreAnd gossip there was! Not so much wine however, as Chico Bandito offered happy hour cocktails all night for the senioritis, so Cosmo's and bellini's were a-flowing! There were a couple of no shows, but c'est la vie (and their loss) but a top crowd of girls did show. One lady worked in a boutique hotel (no shortage of gossip there, with stories of guests and fellow workers). Fresh off the ...
Read MoreWe're currently neck deep working on our iPhone app (we know, we know, it's about time). Thanks to Iggy Hammick, Alok Matta and Thomas Mason who joined our lunchtime "Testing & Tapas" lunch last month to look at a very raw early version and to offer thoughts and feedback. We'd love to hear your views, so if you'd like to get an early look and have your say in what ...
Read MoreAt the start of the year, TableCrowd won the Lion’s Cage pitch competition. As well as the general prestige of winning this event, we won a very generous £5k in legal fees from event sponsor Taylor Wessing. Since then we have partnered with Taylor Wessing on a number events, particularly for our startup community; an area close their hearts, as they have a team of lawyers dedicated to supporting start ups. In May, Declan Bradley joined ...
Read MoreWe headed to London favourite BKB in Soho for this week’s Startup Engine meal and my personal fill of social dining. Probably the warmest evening of the year so far, so the Soho streets were packed and people were fighting over the window-side and on-street seats. There were 10 diners, so a busy and lively TableCrowd dinner. The fish finger sandwiches looked delicious but in an attempt to keep it healthy, ...
Read MoreIt’s always a pleasure to try out a new restaurant local to our Old Street office for a TableCrowd dinner and last night our Startup Engine crowd descended on newish-to-the-scene Rotary Bar & Diner, right by Old Street tube. The menu was simple, burgers, steak and fish – all very tasty, as, it was reported, were the virgin cocktails. We had 11 diners from the Startup Engine Crowd, all ready to ...
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