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Making my way to World Maker Faire 2012 Last year, I attended World Maker Faire in New York, coming back from a short trip to visit the SketchUp team in Boulder.After 2 days of great fun, I knew I was hooked. Over the week end, I had met new heroes and new friends, I had seen technology I only dreamt of until then, I had played with the best toys on earth, I had memories for ever. It was a great inspiration when formulating the concept idea for Le FabShop, the entrepreneur project I won with the Saint-Malo 2015 competition.Earlier this year, the prize money helped me fund my trip to the Hardware Innovation Workshop in Palo Alto, and to Maker Faire Bay Area, mother of all Maker Faires.
The Foundations Of A Startup Community Editor’s Note: Brenden Mulligan is an entrepreneur who created Onesheet, ArtistData, MorningPics, and PhotoPile. He’s an mentor for 500 Startups, Advise.me and several startups. You can find him on Twitter at @bmull and blogging at Starting Up. Coworking Tools & Tips Efficient Agile Tools for Freelancers: The Magic and Importance of Process Software developers have been using Agile methodology for many years now, to help increase productivity, efficiency and quality. The methods themselves have huge benefits for small teams. They help to control costs, solve specific problems in rapid succession, allow for adaptability and place focus on the end user. How Coworking is Changing the 21st Century Workplace Freelancers and small businesses are increasingly proving themselves 21st Century economic powerhouses. Their small sizes allow them to flow with the currents of technological and cultural change in a way their larger, corporate counterparts can’t. They are cost-effective because they can keep a small core staff, bringing on specialists depending on their needs. But where do they work? Many find themselves too big or busy to work from home, or too small to afford their own office. For these homeless freelancers, small businesses and entrepreneurs, co-working spaces provide a great option.
Maker culture The maker culture is a contemporary culture or subculture representing a technology-based extension of DIY culture. Typical interests enjoyed by the maker culture include engineering-oriented pursuits such as electronics, robotics, 3-D printing, and the use of CNC tools, as well as more traditional activities such as metalworking, woodworking, and traditional arts and crafts. The subculture stresses new and unique applications of technologies, and encourages invention and prototyping.[1] There is a strong focus on using and learning practical skills and applying them creatively. Co:Collective Founders Launch Coworking Space "Grind" In Heart Of NYC Startup Scene If you look carefully around the Union Square, Manhattan, location of newly launched coworking space Grind, there are references to the banalities of life as an office worker, unlamented artifacts of the corporation left behind. The glass walls of two conference rooms are covered in corporate speak--words and phrases like "incentivized," "loop me in," "above my pay grade," and "pain points," rendered in transparent type. The cheeky contempt for corporate culture isn’t just an ironic design touch, it’s part of the mandate of the new venture. “We want to encourage people to leave their jobs,” says Grind cofounder Ty Montague, “and we’ll give them what they need here.”
Coworking Coworking is a style of work that involves a shared working environment, often an office, and independent activity. Unlike in a typical office environment, those coworking are usually not employed by the same organization.[1] Typically it is attractive to work-at-home professionals, independent contractors, or people who travel frequently who end up working in relative isolation.[2] Coworking is also the social gathering of a group of people who are still working independently, but who share values,[3] and who are interested in the synergy that can happen from working with like-minded talented people in the same space.[4][5] Coworking offers a solution to the problem of isolation that many freelancers experience while working at home, while at the same time letting them escape the distractions of home.[6][7] Coworking is not only about the physical space, but about establishing the coworking community first. History[edit]
The Investors Who Want to Hear About your Open Hardware Startup Some are talking about a Hardware Renaissance, but not everyone agrees that it’s already here. Venture capitalists are still very shy with hardware companies: they know it requires money and a deep knowledge of the manufacturing and distribution process to make it work. Risks are still higher than with software. ”Investors have a deep-seated bias against hardware.”
Co Finalists: Two Companies With Responsible Cultures - Business - GOOD As the year comes to a close, we’re wrapping up the GOOD Company Project’s nomination process and planning to unveil the final, 40-company list in the new year. Never fear, we’ll have more stories to come about the companies that populate the list and how they’re changing business for the better; we’re also looking forward to debuting the rest of our video series of company profiles. This week, we’re recognizing two very different companies who share a commitment to a great work culture. Wolff Olins A brand consulting firm based in New York, London, and Dubai, Wolf Olins has been a player in the corporate communications and strategy world since its founding in 1965, working on branding for everything from Apple to the 2012 London Olympics. These two companies will be the last of our regular GOOD Company Project nominees this year, but keep checking back—we’ll have a lot more to talk about before the project officially wraps up.
6 Top Tips For Managing a Coworking Space We recently brought you some best practices for working with others in coworking spaces. But there's another side to the coworking coin. In this post we offer advice for those involved in the management of such premises. 16 Cool Coworking Spaces Ready to get out of the basement and into a real office? Before you strike out on your own and get locked into a lease, consider a coworking space. They’re more affordable, full of start-up geeks like you, and probably cooler than any office your start-up could afford. Here are 17 spaces to check out. Location: BostonCost: Monthly memberships start at $99, but you can also get space by the day or week.Oficio is a boutique shared office and coworking space located in the center of the vibrant and historic Back Bay neighborhood in Boston.
Writing a business plan - How to write a business plan - Submit a business plan - Sequoia Capital Writing a Business Plan At Sequoia we like business plans that present a lot of information in as few words as possible. The following business plan format, within 15–20 slides, is all that’s needed... read The future of the workplace Something is stirring in east London, and it was stirring long before David Cameron made his "tech city" speech of November 2010. Back then the prime minister announced a vision for an "east London tech city – a hub that stretches from Shoreditch and Old Street to the Olympic park", and could one day rival America's Silicon Valley. In 2012, overlooking Old Street's "Silicon roundabout", founder and CEO of tech startup Huddle, Alistair Mitchell, described the scene. "In our building there are five other early-stage tech startups ... Below us is Tech Hub, a group working space for startups, across the road we've got Twitter, Google's new building is just down the road ...