Office Space Coworking

The Wall Street Journal’s ‘Cranky Consumer’ recently gave coworking try sharing their experience in a great article. As sited in the article there are over 9 million self-employed individuals and 33.7 million telecommuters working in the U.S. today. As we’ve noted since launching our first Office Space Coworking location in Akron…the dynamics of the independent/ [… Read More]

Congratulations to Tony Bacigalupo?Ǭ†& New Work City on their recent interview on NPR. It’s a great piece highlighting the pros (& cons) of coworking and noting the growth of the movement and the trend of shared office space. Tony’s quoted: “I think we’ll be seeing in this century, we’re going to be moving away from [… Read More]

Susan Evans, co-founder of Office Nomads in Seattle, was just featured in a nice, splashy piece on the merits of coworking in this month’s Entrepreneur Magazine. The article focuses on coworking’s rapid growth both internationally (and in your backyard). Susan was actually the first person I ever spoke with about co-working. In fact, I interviewed her [… Read More]

Just read great article from Business Pundit. Love the reasoning for why a coworking is better than a coffee shop: Consider the average coffee shop, where: -A cafe latte sets you back $3-$4. You feel guilty if you sit around without purchasing a new one, making an average day of work there cost around $12, [… Read More]

It was early – like very, very early — but Staci Shelton, Dawn Mitchell and myself managed to show up bright and bushy tailed for an interview on WKYC’s morning show. Heidi, my wife, also joined us along with our resident copy writer, Tom Crane of Aviary Creative. It was a GREAT experience and we’re [… Read More]

SOMETIMES YOU NEED TO GET AWAY FROM HOME, SWEET HOME Two of our members were recently intereviewed by Paula Schleis of the Beacon Journal. Dawn Mitchell & Staci Shelton have both been working out of their homes for some time now. Staci found us first through some social networking on Facebook and then Dawn joined [… Read More]

Co-working was recently recognized as a coming trend by the DaVinci institute. “Colonies will form around shared resources. Equipment that is too expensive for one person to own will be owned by the colony for all to share. Colonies will vary in size and structure as communities begin to experiment with the essential ingredients needed to [… Read More]

Just found this great article from Fast Company, Homeless Entrepreneur Shares Office With Millionaire, posted earlier this year. This story highlights the story of a serial entrepreneur / venture capitalist who uses his local coworking space, BlankSpaces, as his base of operations and a recently independent entrepreneur who had idea and just needed the investment [… Read More]

Nice Article from Small Business Labs: The Impact of the Recession on Coworking We’re finding continued interest from people requiring a professional work environment – that’s cost effective and puts the right foot forward for a small business owner establishing themselves in the community. In previous recessions small business formation increased. And today it is [… Read More]

Ohhh man am I jealous – but the piece is so darn good and really good promotion for the coworking concept so I gotta give ‘mad props’ where they are due. That said we certainly have to celebrate that Akron is at the forefront of such a progressive movement. It’s a great piece and congratulations [… Read More]