Strength in numbers. That’s what you get in a coworking community. Humans are a social bunch, which means they’re exchanging ideas. In a coworking space, people will collaborate with their neighbors and even hire them. Humans are also mobile. Two legs will get you...
We asked NexSpace's CEO Jeremy Neuner to tell us about what it's like to cowork in his facility. Here's what he had to say. Why did you start NextSpace? NextSpace represents a joint effort to build businesses here in Santa Cruz. Before I started it, I was the...
We asked Sandbox's CEO Roman Gelfer to tell us about what it's like to cowork in his facility. Here's what he had to say. In 2007, I ran across an article in a business magazine on work/life balance and various options to deal with that in...
We asked RocketSpace's CEO Duncan Logan to tell us about what it's like to cowork in his facility. Here's what he had to say. The whole focus of RocketSpace is to create an unfair advantage for the technology companies within. The initial phase is to...
Over the past ten years, a new way of working has emerged along with people who live it every day. We call them the free radicals and, to us, they represent the future of work: they operate 24/7 through nimble, networked collaboration; they are averse to rigid hierarchies and...
From what I have learned while studying coworking this past summer, I think it is safe to say that the working world is rapidly changing as my peers and I enter the workforce. And one prominent factor driving this evolution is the interconnectedness of our modern world. The...
The idea for Loosecubes -- a community marketplace of coworking spaces -- was hatched out of a cabin in the woods of Maine during the summer of 2009. Our founder, Campbell McKellar, was working remotely for a Manhattan-based real estate company, and she started to get fed up...
To begin, I have to say, our tour of Affinity Lab was incredible. The front entrance is metro accessible in Washington, DC's, vibrant U-Street area. Immediately upon entering the space, you're greeted by four or five desks (for the "virtual members," which are part-time...
As I learned in the early months after going into business for myself in June 2010, the solitude afforded by my home office was just the refreshing and productive respite I needed after client meetings and volunteer work. That said, I did miss the collaborative aspects of a...
