Tablefinder Official Blog

Tablefinder was selected as one of the 6 "winners" of SeedCamp 2007! However, all of the 20 teams in London last week are winners in our opinion. The lineup of mentors were just amazing and everyone attending got something good out of the week.

We finally managed to nail a description of what we do, to be able to explain to anybody what we want to achieve with our vision.

When we first described our business a lot of people thought that we were trying to compete with reservation giants like OpenTable and Livebookings, when we are really trying to help them make more money. The online reservation market is very fragmented at the moment, where you have to go to different sites to book different restaurants. Tablefinders aim is to bring all of those fragments together in an open and rewarding community. By doing that we are able to give access to 100% of online bookable restaurants, everywhere in the world. This has been our vision from the start, to make all the online bookable restaurants bookable through Tablefinder, and with the help of SeedCamp, we are able to make our vision come true.

SeedCamp does not only help us come closer to our vision, but also is a big initiative in really changing the European entrepreneurial playground. A lot of people are afraid to fail, and many great ideas get lost in the process. We all need to change our views on what it means to have an idea and give it a shot. We all need to support each other and help people with great ideas change the world. So if your friends come with an idea, don't put it off as a joke, help them make their vision come true.

Regards,

//Anders Fredriksson 

We are really looking forward to the week at SeedCamp in London. I believe that even IF (!) it possibly will not find the next Google , something good will come for everyone attending. Tech Blog at Financial Times wrote a piece on the event announcing the 20 finalists and mentions Tablefinder as one of the finalists.

Regards,
Anders Fredriksson, CEO

When people are trying do define web2.0 and trying to understand what it means, user-generated content usually comes up.

And I agree, user-generated content is THE key factor to success. But what most people forget, is why should users enter information. When we are trying to go beyond the tech-enthusiasts we need to create reasons for users to enter information. Not everyone will edit an article on wikipedia. A lot of services created today focus on the information gathering as a service in itself. I believe this will not work in the long term. The service need to be separated from the businessmodel, services should add value for the user, provide the service for free, and then focus your business around the information entered.

Visiting Webbdagarna got me inspired to write a little piece about what I believe a lot of people are missing.

Internetworld are liveblogging at the conference and they also wrote a piece about my presentation.

 Regards,

 //Anders Fredriksson, CEO Tablefinder

Tablefinder have seen quite a lot of news coverage lately, and we are happy about the attention. This time I even get to share my very "clean" desk with everyone. I tried to convince the photographer not to take pictures of my desk, but what can I say, it is the ugly truth, and I will stand by it!

Here is a link to the swedish article. "Anders bord(e) vara ett hett tips" (I bet they were pleased coming up with that headline) sorry all non-swedish readers, but it doesn't really translate.

 Regards,

 //Anders Fredriksson, CEO

Tablefinder hits the news again. Below are two Swedish articles about seeking venture funding. I had a nice meeting with Hans Otterling at NorthZone Ventures, and Computer Sweden was there to make a story about entrepreneurs meeting venture capitalists.

 Riskkapitalister på turné - Computer Sweden
 "Det är nu det är läge" - Computer Sweden

Regards,

//Anders Fredriksson 

As it seems, we were just placed at number 1 in a list of Swedish Top 25 Internet Entrepreneurs. It is very flattering to be at the top of such a list. Below is a link to the full Swedish article:

Anders och Tomasz dukar bordet - IDG.se

Regards,

//Anders Fredriksson