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The Future of Brick and Mortar

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In Bay Ridge, The Art Room is a store front fine arts school for kids and represents the tip of the iceberg in storefront education centers. Story is a 2000 square foot retail space with "a point of view" that is part store, part event, rotating on a regular basis to feature different themes.

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The Double Standard of Female CEOs Moving Fast and Breaking Things

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They were opening locations left and right and had one celebrity after another on its events roster. When covering a story of a mishandled altercation between members of The Wing that involved issues of race, Jezebel referred to The Wing as “a glossy women’s coworking space we keep having to write about.”

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Raising Awareness about Entrepreneurship as an Economic Development Strategy

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But when you factor in the need to engage with and educate the broader community it’s an even bigger challenge. Another key type of ally to consider are institutions of higher education. Jess also recommends inviting local civic and business leaders to participate as judges at pitch competitions or to emcee events.

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Child Care & Coworking Part 1

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Space: Dayhouse coworking. What made you want to add childcare to your coworking space? Having a parent-friendly workplace was actually what inspired me to start Dayhouse Coworking. Prior to launch, I was a blog editor and event producer, trying to work from home with a toddler. Space: MOMentum Coworking.

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Impact Hub Bergen: Where History Meets Innovation

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Silje had a vision for a space that would invite interactions between unlikely allies in the name of creativity and innovation. The coworking space opened its doors in September 2011, as the first of its kind in Norway. It was founded by Silje Grastveit, an alumni of the renowned Kaospilot programme in Denmark.

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 Child Care & Coworking part 2

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*note: I received so much good feedback from the spaces and women I spoke with that this will be a multi part series so it didn’t end up being the length of a short novel. Space: Work and Play NJ. What made you want to have childcare to your coworking space? Space: InnovateCommunicate (in process of opening).

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Frustrations and Challenges of Ecosystem Builders

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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. You need to engage others and sometimes the vocabulary is not the same and we still need to educate and try again and again.