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Hair On A Deal

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

They have popularized a new form of work space, a new business model for it, and have they have built a global brand around shared workspaces. And hair can get in the way of an otherwise financeable opportunity. There are a lot of things to like about WeWork. I expect the company will eventually get public.

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Pitch Deck Teardown: Gable’s $12M Series A deck

TechCrunch

Here’s what it included: Cover slide Team slide Market context slide (“The revolution of remote work”) Problem slide No. 1 (“Going remote-first is hard”) How people solve it now (“How it’s done today”) Problem slide No. 1 (“Employee view”) Product slide No. 1 Case study slide No.

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mHub opens much bigger facility to kick Chicago startups into high gear

TechCrunch

It would involve a prototyping lab, offices, shared workspaces, meeting rooms and classrooms. Now, it is moving into a newly acquired , freshly refurbished space in a Chicago opportunity zone to help it incubate, accelerate and support more startups that can have a positive impact on humanity.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Ocean tech investor survey, AI and PR, L-1 visa options

TechCrunch

To learn more about the opportunities they’re chasing and discover how climate change is shaping their investment thesis, he surveyed: Daniela V. “Making the business of shared workspaces easier for startups certainly has its challenges, but it’s also a large and growing market,” writes Haje Jan Kamps.

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When Is The Right Time For A Startup To Move Into A Physical Space

Startup Grind

They don’t appear “serious” enough to key customers, or they’re losing out on retail opportunities, or they just can’t quite scale their business to the next level without that extra boost of business. You could rent a certain number of desks in a local shared workspace with a conference room that you could book.

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Coworking Megatrend Predictions for 2020

GCUC

Last year, we discussed how more brands would market to coworking and how they would introduce products specifically geared toward shared workspace. the first coworking real estate opportunity fund. We talked briefly about coworking nomenclature and I have since had an epiphany about it. This one will take some time to prove.).

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The New Economy Starts with Networks of Collaboration

Impact Hub

And there has never been a better opportunity than there is now to explore new methods of constructing and building a better tomorrow. The changes that are spreading across the world today, most of them linked to COVID-19, are turning the world upside down. This is a decade like no other, yet with turbulence comes reflection and change.