Dec 5, 2018
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Techstars and Shark Tank alumna Alice Lewis is building both a business and a movement. Her startup, Alice’s Table, offers a “business in a box” to entrepreneurial women who need a flexible schedule and want a meaningful activity. Alice’s Table helps with logistics, marketing, training and technology; the members, called “execs”, bring energy and connection with local brick & mortar businesses hungry for new things to keep their locations busy. Don’t miss this sparkling interview with her generation’s Martha Stewart.
Highlights include:
- Alice Lewis’ Introduction – The Martha Stewart of Her Generation
- Building a Movement as Well as a Business – Women Connecting Across Functional & Economic Strata to Create Events that Are Fun and Meaningful
- Alice’s Parents Are Both Entrepreneurs – This Inspired Her to Get Started
- Being in a Musical in the 8th Grade Helped Her Realize She Has a Talent for Management
- “I thought I was going to the art world 100%. My mom is an interior designer, but she also helps clients collect art. So, I saw that and I was like, this art world thing is really cool.”
- "Oh my gosh, you're just another lifestyle blog, like the world does not need another lifestyle blog. Like stop, quit, Leave this. This is not a business opportunity."
- Her First Job Was Working with the FBI & US Customs on International Art Fraud
- “One of the things that I loved about Penn and why I wanted to go there so badly was because they had lots of majors that had many dimensions to them.”
- “Normal People, Normal Results; Abnormal People, Abnormal Results”
- “…like it's so scary to launch a business. How do you get over that hurdle? My response is always, if you can't get used to that pit in your stomach, just stay in your job.”
- No Serenity in Startup Life: Gimlet Media’s Alex Blumberg Is Up at 2:45 AM Talking to His Wife About the Business
- “Raise your hand if you recognize that we hit a target that we really were gunning for and nobody else has noticed, because it happens all the time.”
- “So, Techstars was our first move out of the basement.”
- “…what about this company are they doing that's not just women playing with flowers?"
- “…stealth mode is the most ridiculous thing ever because everybody has good ideas. It's about the execution of the ideas.”
- Weekly Team Meetings: “I don't want you to bring anything to the table that's good. I want you to tell me what scares you in your world because I can't know everybody's world.”
- The Founding Story of Alice’s Table
- “…we've got to figure out a way for women who want flexibility to participate and build a business…”
- Alice Lewis Tells Us What Alice’s Table Is About
- Alice Lewis’ Experience on Shark Tank
- What Alice Lewis Learned from Funding Her Startup
- “…your approach doesn't entail pestering all your relatives to buy…”
- Alice’s Table Execs Build Alliances with Existing Brick & Mortar Business Eager for More Activity
- “We're really lucky that right now, brick and mortar is struggling…”
- What Alice’s Board Does for Her
- The Future Plans for Alice’s Table