As we continue to bring you thoughts, insights, joys and challenges from our coworkers around the country, today we offer an interview with Eva Schweber, Chief Cat Herder and David Kominsky, Rabbi of CubeSpace in Portland, OR. In an act of brilliant coworking, the two co-answered my questions.
Spike Gillespie: When did you get started?
CubeSpace: We […]
Categories: Coworking
We’re using 37Signals Basecamp to manage all of the LaunchPad Coworking startup project — software development, web site development, architecture, design, marketing, IT, finance, pricing, sourcing, and (soon) construction. We love Basecamp :)
What follows is an update from Tina Rosenzweig regarding the ridiculously convoluted permitting process she’s managing. It’s copied directly from a Basecamp project […]
Categories: Progress
When LaunchPad Coworking opens, we’ll be the first official coworking space in Austin. In the meanwhile, independent workers — those who work alone and those who join together through Jelly or other informal groups — find community spaces in a catch is as catch can fashion. Which often means they gather in cafés around town, […]
Categories: Coworking · Food & Drink
We started searching to partner with a coffee roaster and supplier months ago. As with other parts of this process of creating the perfect cross between a coworking space and a café, the search was thorough and the goal clear: find not just “the best,” but “the best for LaunchPad Coworking.”
Julie has talked before about […]
Categories: Food & Drink
When I got the invitation to attend the BiG|idea luncheon at the Hilton in Austin, I was psyched. I had never heard of BiG Austin before. They’re an organization that supports and provides micro-financing for very small startups, with a focus on woman- and minority-owned businesses. They’ve been around since the mid 90s. I’ve been […]
Categories: Events
Categories: Coworking
In this photo, Murray, architect/structural poet, and Tina, café genius, test out the most important feature of the new space: Is it conducive to impromptu Frisbee tossing? Okay, okay, so we won’t have Frisbee tossing when we open. But it was fun to take a little break from all that exploration.
Manly man and Canadian […]
Categories: Progress
The LaunchPad team met Tara ‘missrogue’ Hunt, at the SXSWi meetups and core conversations. Tara, Co-founder of Citizen Space in San Francisco, had a lot to say about coworking at the meetings. I caught up with her via email recently to ask her to share some more of her thoughts on coworking.
Spike Gillespie: How did […]
Categories: Coworking
As part of our ongoing, informal series of interviews with coworking pioneers around the country, we caught up with Jacob Sayles and Susan Evans, co-founders of OfficeNomads in Seattle, which opened on November 1, 2007, in the Capitol Hill neighborhood.
Spike Gillespie: What role do each of you play?
Susan Evans: Jacob and I […]
Categories: Coworking
Tina Rosenzweig takes a disco nap on my lawn at the end of a long week.
Categories: Productivity
