Alice Lewis, Founder - "From Techstars to Shark Tank"

Our Investment Syndicates: Link to Our Syndicates Page 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