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Entries from February 2009

Austin Coworking Meetup at SXSW Interactive

February 25th, 2009 · No Comments

Last year’s Coworking meetup was a great success, so we’re doing it again. Same venue — the lovely courtyard of the fabulous San Jose Hotel. And once again, it’ll be on the first evening of SXSWi — March 13 — so you won’t be all partied out :) Be sure to RSVP on the Meetup [...]

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Categories: Announcements · Coworking

Pre-Launch Deals for Early Adopters

February 18th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Okay, early adopters — here’s your chance to help us get LaunchPad Coworking open and thriving as a new hub for business in Austin.
In our last post, we explored the idea of VIP memberships and some kind of profit-sharing program. We got a lot of good feedback via email, Twitter, and in the comments. A [...]

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Categories: Announcements · Coworking

What do you want in a VIP membership?

February 9th, 2009 · 5 Comments

Wow, what great response we’ve received from our last post! Your comments, emails, tweets, and calls have been so encouraging. And your ideas are fantastic.
As you know, we’re trying to raise the rest of the money we need — fast. We are still looking for investors, of course, but now we’re considering going down a [...]

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Categories: Brainstorming · Coworking

Transparency and Catharsis

February 3rd, 2009 · 18 Comments

Being transparent is relatively easy when things are going well. When times are hard — not so much.
It was so much fun to post updates here — photos of the latest new wonderfulness to appear at LaunchPad Coworking. I was pretty active on Twitter, keeping up with the blog, and generally letting everyone know how [...]

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Categories: Coworking · Progress · transparency