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Cospace.co Grows to Serve All Work Spaces – Austin’s Cospace Coworking Closes

Tuesday, 22 January 2013 by Paul O'Brien

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

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Startup Marketing

Tuesday, 01 January 2013 by Paul O'Brien

Not long ago, I had the distinct pleasure of joining an incredible group of Austin entrepreneurs through AUSOME (Austin Online Marketing for Entrepreneurs) for a discussion of the Art of Startup Marketing. Thanks to David Vogelpohl, founder of Marketing Clique and Tapfire Mobile, I finally took a few minutes to put pen to powerpoint to

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Published in Advertising, eCommerce, Insights / Research, Search, Social Media, Startups

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How the Internet Failed to Change Our Lives

Saturday, 29 December 2012 by Paul O'Brien

Wrapping up this year and having spent some incredible time with an amazingly diverse set of innovations (and innovators), I starting wondering if and how the internet has really failed to deliver on its promise. One of the sobering realities of a capitalistic economy is that the almighty dollar, indeed, causes tremendous innovations, services, and

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Published in Industry

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Does your Internet Service Provider Suck?

Thursday, 20 December 2012 by Paul O'Brien

Not long ago, a friend in the community where I lived posted a question in our online community. How good is AT&T U-Verse because Time Warner stinks? I was moved to put pen to paper and thought I’d share the thoughts more publicly: Since I work on the internet, the fact that internet service stinks

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Published in Insights / Research

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It’s The End Of The Rank As We Know It…

Monday, 17 December 2012 by Paul O'Brien

In honor of the forthcoming end of the world, I wanted to spend a few minutes to share with you some perspective on the state of SEO. Yes, I know, SEO’Brien actually still spends time on search engine optimization. Truth be told, my old library analogy still stands the test of time as one of

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Published in Natural Search / SEO

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The Cost of Entrepreneurship in Your Community

Tuesday, 20 November 2012 by Paul O'Brien

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,

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Published in Economic Development, Featured, Startup Ecosystems, Startups

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Changing Education

Tuesday, 23 October 2012 by Paul O'Brien

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,

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Published in Insights / Research, Startups

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