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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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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Julie had some big news at our weekly meeting Tuesday. Douglas Kennedy (yes one of those Kennedys), who works for Fox News, invited her for an interview about coworking. So she and Susan Price of Firecat Studio headed to the Fox Studios in Dallas. The segment airs Friday, July 25, 4 pm central on Fox [...]

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Yes. Yes we do.
The City of Austin has generously decided to let us build LaunchPad Coworking. There’s an official permit that our general contractor has to pick up to post onsite, but some of the info is online. Here’s the meaty bits of our shiny new building permit.
Can you say All Systems Go?

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I’m happy to announce that we’ve officially signed our first cash investor — my dad, Augie Gomoll. Both my parents have been huge supporters of LaunchPad Coworking. My dad has eagerly examined all the drawings, all the plans, and every blog post. He even follows me on Twitter, and more recently, FriendFeed.

I was visiting family [...]

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Don’t forget to RSVP for the Coworking Meetup tonight at 7pm at the Hotel San Jose. You don’t even need to be registered for SXSWi to attend.
If you’ve registered via upcoming.org, a Meetup RSVP would really help the San Jose staff up for tonight.
I’m sure looking forward to seeing everyone! It kind of feels like [...]

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We’d like to introduce you to another member of our team — IT whiz Carl de Cordova. Carl’s resume is long enough to wrap around the UT Tower several times and rich enough to buy the Tower and dip it in liquid gold.
Carl and Julie first met in the mid-nineties when he was running an [...]

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It’s a big deal when the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle both cover coworking.
Coworking pioneers, including Hat Factory, Citizen Space, Sandbox Suites and Werks (sorry Werks people — couldn’t find a decent link to you. — send me one and I’ll fix this post) got some much-deserved press over the last couple [...]

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Now that the lease is signed, we’re rolling up our sleeves with Murray Legge, the visionary architect who comes to us by way of LZT Architects, Inc.
Murray grew up in Canada and got his architectural training at Cooper Union in NYC. He lives in Austin with his wife, the filmmaker Deborah Lewis, and their daughter. [...]

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Julie Gomoll
LaunchPad Coworking
press@launchpadcoworking.com
Released: AUSTIN, TEXAS, February 11, 2008
You’ve been asking — Is LaunchPad Coworking real? Where is it located? How can I find it? When can I start coworking in Austin already?
We are more than a little happy to announce that after months of searching and planning, we have inked a [...]

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