Forward Cities

DECEMBER 18, 2019

More information about the ESHIP Communities program can be found here. Gerald and his wife Dianna co-founded Plexpod, a coworking space where they champion entrepreneurs and the power of community to achieve success. Gerald is one of the founding members of our ESHIP Communities Council in Kansas City. A : Show up!

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 30, 2022

As the first coworking space operator in Hong Kong to provide a truly “across space” solution for businesses, theDesk’s virtual work and collaboration platform is equipped with all essential features to support communication and collaboration, from video conferencing, presentation, screen sharing, chat to whiteboard, etc.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 26, 2022

Register COLABS becomes Pakistan’s only venture-backed collaborative workspace by a $3 million investment. Aatif Awan, Founder and Managing Partner of Indus Valley Capital, said, “The first time I visited COLABS, I found the community and energy to be a microcosm of the fast-growing Pakistani tech ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

. — a third-generation Mexican American and the first in her family to go to college — was working on making coding instruction available to disadvantaged members of her community. Historically, female founders have received just 12% of venture capital investment for their businesses.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2022

Lahore-based coworking space startup, Colabs , is set to roll-out a SaaS product to enable businesses meet back-office needs including company registration, talent sourcing and management, payroll processing and legal and tax compliance. The family-owned real estate firm develops Colabs spaces. Image Credits: Colabs.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Join a global community of brilliant visionaries, makers and investors on December 16-17 for TC Sessions: Space 2020 , an online conference dedicated to moving beyond the confines of this world through innovative tech and to creating stellar startup opportunities. Do you find expression “the sky’s the limit” well, limiting?

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Impact Hub

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Taking advantage of the international and collaborative nature of our network, we have made a virtual trip around the world based on the experiences of the Impact Hubs in Boston, Florianópolis, Taipei, Shanghai, Bamako, Lisbon, Vienna, and Madrid. Communication, bonding, and collaboration skyrocketed in Spanish organizations.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 4, 2021

Many companies are emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic with a hybrid work model, meaning some employees will return to the office at least part-time, but others will collaborate remotely. Coworking spaces support hybrid work models in a variety of ways. Are you considering a coworking space as you emerge from remote work?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

Brett Martin, the co-founder and president of Kumospace, believes a core piece to easing the transition is workplace collaboration tools — especially video chat tools that foster a “virtual office” feeling. “ We need to stop pretending that chat emojis equal corporate culture and a sense of community.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JUNE 20, 2020

This year, I identified volunteers to serve State Coordinators and Community Organizers. By creating this nationwide network of State Coordinators and Community Organizers, it enables ecosystem builders to connect to other communities they otherwise may not have connected with, and possible plan a GEW activity with.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

APRIL 2, 2021

“Communities seeking to grow their economy need to understand the impact entrepreneurship and small business play in economic growth.” — Grow Your Own: Entrepreneurship-based Economic Development for Local Communities, Dell Gines, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Identify Potential Allies.

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GCUC

OCTOBER 22, 2019

In our opinion, well designed coworking spaces aren’t noisy or distracting – they are quite the opposite. It means you need to make sure your space has flexible seating, good culture, benefits, mitigated noise levels, a solid location, good tech and others for your members to collaborate with. But is that true?

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

After six years of collaboration, the global Impact Hub Network and Impact Hub Recife are now parting ways. The entrepreneurial community and coworking space of Impact Hub Recife, embarks this month on a new vision. Moving forward, the local team is setting up a new infrastructure that takes on an independent direction.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 16, 2019

The coworking space opened its doors in September 2011, as the first of its kind in Norway. Today, Impact Hub Bergen has grown into a community of more than 50 entrepreneurs and changemakers. The community here is diverse; it houses startups, established businesses, NGOs, creatives, freelancers, food entrepreneurs and more.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Consider collaborating with influencers. Join local events in your community to increase word-of-mouth. Even better, prospects and customers will tell their friends and coworkers about your company. Use remarketing to target the people who previously liked something on your social pages or visited your website.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Founder and CEO Matt Schulman has created one of the most comprehensive and thorough recruiting processes, which has made him one of the most successful recruiters in the YC community. We still use this strategy at Pave today, but it has evolved and is now affectionately called the collaborative Google Doc.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

What holds them back in their work (scarcity, silos, unrealistic expectations and an unwillingness to collaborate). In an ecosystem, there should be multiple entrepreneurial support organizations, coworking spaces, incubators/accelerators, investors, etc.communicating about the resources they have to support entrepreneurs.

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Forward Cities

JUNE 27, 2019

Brett Brenton, Senior Director of Community Innovation, guides participants through a mock ideation session that participants could use in their community to generate innovative ideas and solutions to community problems. Fay Horwitt, Vice President of Community Innovation explains the Forward Cities’ Theory of Change model.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 21, 2024

My Partner Winter Mead, Founder & CEO of Coolwater Capital , the accelerator for emerging VC fund managers, said: “Fewer than 5 of the 180 emerging managers we’ve worked with are raising via 506c, in order to get in front of more retail LPs, who are generally already following the GP, e.g., through the GP’s newsletter or community.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Patch will take empty local high street shops and turn them into “collaborative cultural spaces” with its “Work Near Home” proposition aimed at traditional commuters. Now, a new U.K. startup has come top with a “decentralized workspace” idea which it plans to roll out across the U.K.

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GCUC

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Through our work, we’ve cultivated a global community of people we think you should know about. Community of Cultivators is a new blog series to introduce you to coworking game changers and connectors. Changing our relationship with ‘work’ and making coworking an option for millions of people was just the first step.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

That, plus the growing number of startups, affordable cost of living, and vibrant community, make it a great place to live and work. Their culture is flexible and collaborative, making it a top Detroit startup to work at, and they’re constantly innovating and helping small businesses find the banking tools they need. Plain Sight.

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 13, 2020

Operating like this has given us an upper hand and enabled us to best support Impact Hubs in transitioning their work and communities online. . The challenge ahead is helping new ‘ knowmads’ to learn how to collaborate, think, create, and connect productively. Human conne ction and community is at the center of COVID-19 recovery.

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Impact Hub

JUNE 18, 2019

Here are 3 impactful stories helped along by Impact Hub Madrid through its different business units: coworking, events and projects. But, what does this look like in real terms? Three clear and tangible examples that illustrate our understanding of a positive impact and how we help to create it.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 20, 2023

21 Ways to Encourage Collaboration Among Startup Team Members To help you foster collaboration among your startup team members, we’ve gathered twenty-one insightful tactics from CEOs and founders. Plus, it’s fun and builds a culture of innovation and collaboration.

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