Entries from August 2008
Upgrading my marketing skills
August 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Categories: Coworking · Social Media
Design thinking
August 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tim Brown is an award winning designer and CEO of the Palo Alto, CA design firm Ideo. He’s got a really thought provoking piece on design thinking in the June issue of the Harvard Business Review (sadly, it’ll cost you $6.50 to read more than this excerpt if you don’t have a subscription). I was [...]
Categories: Coworking · design
I’m Lookin’ Over/A Super Hyped Clover
August 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Way back in December, before we found and happily settled in with Texas Coffee Traders as our local coffee vendor, we went out on a search. And along the way, visiting with another vendor, we had a day of coffee education. This included bean knowledge, roasting facts, latte foam art pointers, the ins and outs [...]
Categories: Food & Drink
My inner coworking animal
August 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
Categories: Coworking
London calling (just not necessarily calling it coworking)
August 21st, 2008 · 4 Comments
Our friend and co-fan of coworking, Drew Jones of NotAnMba, travels to London often enough. He reported back, after a recent trip, that he’d visited a place called Le Bureau and that it sure was fancy. I checked out the website and sure enough, it looked mighty fancy. It also looked like, smelled like, walked [...]
Categories: Coworking
In my Triiibe?
August 20th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Seth Godin is a well-known marketing guru, public speaker, founder of Squidoo, author and, by his own account according to Technorati and AdAge, “writes the most popular marketing blog in the world.” Among his eleven published titles are Purple Cow, All Marketers Are Liars, and Meatball Sundae.
Godin’s got another book, Tribes: We Need You to [...]
Categories: Social Media · books
More coworking models: from high end to zero down
August 19th, 2008 · 3 Comments
I interview a lot of folks about their coworking spaces and I always ask for a description of the business model. Is the focus on profit or not? What are rates like? This past week, I came across two very opposite-ends-of-the-spectrum models, financially speaking. Monolab|Incubator is in Palo Alto, California, and charges premium rates. Big [...]
Categories: Coworking
Coworking: the latest entry on your expense report
August 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Great news — Workforce Management reports that a growing number of companies are willing to foot the bill for telecommuters to work in coworking spaces. They offer the example of Chris Jurney, a senior programmer with Relic Entertainment, who left the company, and Vancouver, to move to Philadelphia.
Jurney found other work but it wasn’t long [...]
Categories: Coworking
A League of their own
August 18th, 2008 · No Comments
I just love what Tim and Karrie League have done for Austin. Though it wasn’t that long ago that they opened their first Alamo Drafthouse, the place (and it’s subsequent sister locations) have had such an impact that already the Alamo is an institution, a must-do for locals as well as visitors to the city, [...]
Categories: People
An interview with Dusty Reagan
August 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Dusty Reagan founded Austin’s Jelly community in 2007. Last month, he and three partners opened Conjuctured, a coworking space in Austin that so far has seen members coming from across many disciplines including: developers, writers, social media consultants, and designers. LaunchPad Coworking is a big fan of Dusty and all the work he’s done to [...]
