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The Future of the Workplace is Flexible

Revolution

Pandemic-induced office closures led to nearly impossible circumstances for a startup focused on events and coworking spaces. Particularly, as employers have re-evaluated their need for serious real estate. Their advice and support helped guide me through one of the most challenging times I’ve faced as an entrepreneur and CEO.

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

TechCrunch

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. Historically, female founders have received just 12% of venture capital investment for their businesses.

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Remote Work, Not Taxes, Threatens Cities: Why That Threat has Peaked but Others Remain

This is going to be BIG.

The wealthy are also more likely to own mortgaged real estate—so they get tax write-offs on their interest payments and real estate taxes that renters do not, additionally padding their bottom line. The other major factor in what it costs to live in NYC is the opportunity cost of physical space.

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

This is going to be BIG.

Back in the late 90's, a lot of money and real estate brokering went into trying to make it so, however. These are people whose business it is to support startups. It's not quite the same when you're putting government money to work supporting new companies. I'll bet you didn't know that--mostly because it never was.

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Thynk wants to upgrade hotel stays with a vertical software platform

TechCrunch

Hospitality’s end goal is nothing more than a new way to generate income on real estate assets,” Petit said. In addition to hotel rooms, many hotels now have fancy restaurants, sophisticated cocktail bars, conference centers, coworking spaces, spas and various paid experiences. It is a sector that comes from asset management.

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‘Co-warehouse’ company Saltbox closes $35M Series B

TechCrunch

Coworking and warehouse space company Saltbox announced today the closing of a $35 million Series B led by Cox Enterprises and Pendulum Holdings. Saltbox also faces the changing tides of the real estate and e-commerce markets. The news comes more than a year after Saltbox closed a $10.6

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Companies will be more sustainable after COVID-19 I

Impact Hub

Taking advantage of the international nature of our organization of entrepreneurship support communities, we wanted to understand the impact of COVID-19 on work systems and business sustainability worldwide, based on the experiences of Impact Hub Boston, Florianopolis, Taipei, Shanghai, Bamako, Lisbon, Vienna and Madrid.