Engineered Serendipity. Interest in smaller, highly curated formats like members-only salons, dinners, and programmed receptions hit all time highs!
Engineered Serendipity. Interest in smaller, highly curated formats like members-only salons, dinners, and programmed receptions hit all time highs!
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* Engineered Serendipity + Highly Curated Dinners = 🔥
THE DOPE STARTUP IDEA & THE PERFECT DOMAIN NAME:
* Breaking down the new market indicators & behavioral consumer trends we're tracking, and solidifying that into a dope startup idea branded with the perfect domain name.
→ In-person events are back (and different)!
→ There's interest in smaller, highly curated formats like members only salons, dinners, and programmed receptions that target very specific, high-level attendees and encourage more engagement and networking opportunities.
→ There is real value in being the entity or organization that convenes the right people in the right place.
→ Pandemic tendencies changed how we socialize, trading jampacked conference centers of years past for intimate dinner parties.
→ High-end restaurants have started offering private dining services that have become the hottest thing for high-end diners across major metropolitan centers.
→ Upstarts like Resident let users book private, customized events at venues around New York City, or buy tickets to preplanned dinners with acclaimed chefs.
→ To preserve a sense of intimacy some iconic Soho House locations in New York, Los Angeles, and London are even halting new memberships.
→ The dope idea here is to capitalize on this concept of Engineered Serendipity, using Highly Curated Dinners as our vehicle of choice to target a very specific niche community.
→ Identify your preferred vertical — ai, defi, crypto, web3, gaming, media, fashion, the arts, etc. — and lean into this new interest in highly curated formatted events.
→ Leverage what you know, who you know, where you already have a social base to launch a dope new membership dinner series, which we’ve dubbed HIGHTABLE.
→ Lock in the domain name: HIGHTABLE.XYZ
THE DOPE INSIGHTS:
* The insights, trends, and cultural inspo behind the idea & branding.
Is now the right time for HIGHTABLE.XYZ?
Yes. 100%.
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* In-person events are back (and different)!
Zoom in: Big-name executives typically plan their news-making around global tentpole events — think the World Economic Forum at Davos, COP, Cannes Lions, Web Summit and SXSW.
Yes, but: It doesn't have to be a main-stage global summit to be worthwhile.
There's interest in smaller, more curated formats like membership retreats, salon dinners, roundtables or programmed receptions that target very specific, high-level attendees and encourage more engagement and networking opportunities.
Between the lines: Regardless of the format, there is real power in being the entity or organization that convenes the right people in the right place.
"Speakers are a huge part of any event, but networking is a massive part of why people attend events like Web Summit and SXSW. The goal for us is to engineer serendipity as much as we can," Todd Hansen, executive producer of Web Summit and former head of conference programming and strategy for SXSW, told Axios.
* The catering industry is getting a much-needed makeover!
But the pandemic changed how we socialize, trading the jampacked ballrooms of years past for intimate dinner parties at home.
And the catering industry adapted to our shifting preferences with a new crop of services, bringing fine dining to intimate settings, per Eater:
Resident lets users book private, customized events at venues around New York City or buy tickets to preplanned dinners with acclaimed chefs.
With Moveable Feast, chefs cook meals for up to 12 people that can be delivered throughout the country.
Takeachef lets users book chefs for private events in their own homes.
* Ultra-exclusive: Some Soho Houses are halting memberships
Some iconic Soho House locations are getting even more exclusive in 2024, with Houses in New York, Los Angeles, and London all announcing that they’d be halting admittance to new members in the new year.
Soho House & Co, the company behind the buzzy members-only clubs (which can cost up to $5k to get into), is introducing the measures to combat overcrowding in British and American branches, as the number of people on the SHCO waitlist hit ~98,000 last quarter, a record high for the company.
* Luxury Private Dining Experiences
In recent times high-end restaurants have started offering private dining services that have become the hottest thing for high-end diners.
The private dining service showcases foreign chefs from across Asia and Europe who cook exclusively for you. Each dish in the menu at these restaurants will be have been carefully selected for their quality, flavour, and aesthetic appeal.
* The Latest in Luxury Amenities: Exclusive Fine Dining
The New York City restaurant scene is competitive, with restaurateurs and chefs constantly innovating in order to stand out from the pack. Likewise, real estate developers–facing their own competitive market–have begun integrating exclusive fine dining experiences into their luxury amenities. These perks can range from in-house, residential fine dining from renowned chefs, to private spaces in hot restaurants and bars.
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Why the “.XYZ” domain?
.XYZ domains are blockchain compatible.
The .XYZ domain has supported blockchain technology since 2018, as the pilot domain for the Ethereum Name Service and Domain Name System integration.
This means that .XYZ domains can be used to create decentralized websites, offering you greater control over your content and data.
Furthermore, you can use your .XYZ domain name for your Ethereum wallet and your website at the same time.
As a result, .XYZ has fast become the domain of choice for the blockchain and web3 community.
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And there you have it… HIGHTABLE.XYZ 🙌
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