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Japan Launches Silicon Valley Hub for Startups: Innovation Campus in Palo Alto

AsiaTechDaily

The strategic location aims to facilitate collaboration with local entities such as companies, venture capital firms, and research institutions. With a focus on industry-academia-government collaboration, the base will play a key role in supporting Japanese startups’ overseas expansion efforts.

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How to reconfigure your office into an efficient co-working space

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Office prices were constantly rising, and companies faced challenges in finding the kind of space that was suitable for them. Suddenly, entrepreneurs found staff working from home and focused on virtual, rather than in-person, collaboration. However, the pandemic changed all of that.

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Colabs gets $3 million seed to expand across Pakistan, launch back-office SaaS solution

TechCrunch

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.

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Bitwise Industries lands $80M to expand its sprawling software dev business

TechCrunch

Historically, female founders have received just 12% of venture capital investment for their businesses. Olguin and Soberal’s latest venture through Bitwise is commercial real estate — the two develop and turn previously blighted buildings into coworking spaces, restaurants, theaters and more.

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Protecting Your Projects: Beat Copycats and Intellectual Property Pirates

StartupNation

Related: Practical Ways for Entrepreneurs to Protect Their Intellectual Property in Coworking Spaces. Your future self will thank you for investing wisely in this area today. How to leverage your intellectual property to get funding and investments. I don’t have any intellectual property.”. Outsmarting the bad guys.

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Coworking Megatrend Predictions for 2020

GCUC

We also predicted the rise of high-end luxury brands ( see this recent Soho Investment ) with brands finding new and inventive ways to set themselves apart. We talked about consolidation and the continued growth due to a strong economy and investments. 89% of coworkers reported being happier in a coworking space.

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Raising Awareness about Entrepreneurship as an Economic Development Strategy

Ecosystem Builder Hub

They’ll be the most interested and invested in the startup and entrepreneurship work happening. We hosted a Civic App Challenge powered by AT&T in the coworking space I ran, and invited the Mayor’s office and Economic Development offices (since the app would be enhancing the lives of the city residents).