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BE 2.0: Focus on Responsibility, Not Tasks – The Mindset Shift That Changes Everything

Paul G. Silva

As I shared in a previous post , when I was president of Click Workspace, a startup coworking space, our board chairman delivered feedback that hit me hard: I wasn’t paying enough attention to our financials. Within a few months, he secured investment that extended his runway by 18 months.

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How VCs, Accelerators, and Coworking Spaces Put Communities in Buildings vs. Buildings in Communities

This is going to be BIG.

VCs and fulltime angels bring a lot more than just money to the communities they invest in. You can get just about any wealthy person to part with some small portion of their wealth to put into risky investments, but these people don't contribute back to the ecosystem. On top of that, they tend to be the locus of innovation networks.

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The Double Standard of Female CEOs Moving Fast and Breaking Things

This is going to be BIG.

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.” I want every company I invest in to be a great working environment, and if it isn’t, tell me what I can do about it.

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The Glue that Makes a Community Stick

This is going to be BIG.

Anyone can build a coworking space, but it''s a lot harder to attract and curate a set of folks that makes me want to move into that space. She started out by simply taking a space and filling it with the kind of people that inspired her. Yet, it''s not so easy to just "insert a Tina" into "local community x".

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Coworking Megatrend Predictions for 2020

GCUC

by Liz Elam, founder of GCUC, the Global Coworking Unconference Conference. As founder of GCUC, the world’s largest coworking conference series, I travel the world learning about coworking. At the end of each year, I look ahead to where the coworking world is going and share my predictions for the coming year.

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5 Tips for Improving Your Startup Deal Flow

Onevest

Only with sufficient deal flow can investors uncover the best startup investments, and stay diversified. A Forbes study of deal pipeline for VCs and angel investor groups shows they review 87 investment opportunities before committing to 1, on average. It could be valley lawyers, members of local angel groups, and mentors.

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Maine’s Coworking Development Fund

EntreWorks Consulting

These powerful places can take many forms, including business offices, libraries and coworking spaces, among others. The latest example comes from Maine where the Maine Coworking Development Fund has just kicked off. The Fund provides small grants (of up to $20,000) to help communities set up and run local coworking spaces.