Getting Into Coworking
Thursday, 31 January 2013
Those of us working in the coworking community know, that per capita, Austin, Texas is the hotbed of the movement. According to Google Search Trends and reported by DeskMag, Austin leads the US market in search queries (demand) related to coworking; it’s no surprise Austin is home to the Global Coworking Unconference. For that reason,
Removing Barriers to Scale – Marketing Before Raising Capital
Monday, 28 January 2013
As an entrepreneur raising capital, you expect the inevitable question about growth. From where are you going to acquire customers? Such a question, though expected and appropriate, is as laden with ignorance as the typical answers. At the end of the day, no one needs to know how, nor model from, where you will acquire
- Published in Startups
Cospace.co Grows to Serve All Work Spaces – Austin’s Cospace Coworking Closes
Tuesday, 22 January 2013
Last week, the Cospace brand evolved to focus on serving entrepreneurs and professionals throughout the world as our web service continues to aggregate and promote work spaces; providing economic and real estate intelligence. In July 2012, we launched https://cospace.co to index and promote every work environment; connecting skilled professionals with the right place to work.
- Published in Local, Startups, Vertical Search
The Cost of Entrepreneurship in Your Community
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Having spent a couple years now in Austin, and the previous 12 in Silicon Valley, a frequent topic of discussion over drinks or dinner is the question of how entrepreneurship works. Not “Startups” per se, at least not in the context that we think of them when reading about all the innovation on TechCrunch; rather,
- Published in Economic Development, Featured, Startup Ecosystems, Startups
Changing Education
Tuesday, 23 October 2012
Over the past few weeks, I’ve had the pleasure of learning from Editor at Large ofThe Chronicle of Higher Education and Author of College (Un)Bound, Jeff Selingo. He has spent the past 15 years immersed in higher education reporting and has been a featured speaker before dozens of national higher-education groups and appears regularly on NPR, PBS, ABC,
- Published in Insights / Research, Startups