Brian contacted me off list and already has my response, but I thought that it might be useful for some others (including other EDC's lurking on the list) to see my response.
I jotted this down on my blog<http://dangerouslyawesome.com/2010/11/where-jobs-come-from/>with a tiny bit more context, but here's the meat of it: Like the modern education system, “job creation” makes the assumption that > at the end of every person’s path is a job. What we’ve found to be the > reality, though, (and we’re not > the<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U> > only <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc> > ones<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNwMut3-z1Y>) > is that some people are motivated by something different, and one of those > things is “independence”. > > Whereas a traditional job creation approach focuses on the businesses that > provide the jobs, we’ve taken a more environmental approach to create people > that are more likely to succeed, ultimately creating create jobs for > themselves and in some cases, other people. This takes the “teach a man to > fish” adage to a whole new level, and has the potential for a profound long > term effect on where jobs even come from in the first place. > > My response to the inquiry is shared below: > > We’re not particularly interested in the creation of “jobs” as we are > independence. I don’t have numbers that I can share at this time, but at the > core of our mission is to help people cross the bridge from being dependent > on a single source of income to many sources, and then to passive sources of > income. We do this by helping people form dynamic “super-teams” of talent, > premeditated by the formation of strong social working relationships, and > then providing guidance and support for product development. > > /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Brian Whipple <dbrianwhip...@gmail.com>wrote: > I am currently doing research on co-working because our small business > incubator will be opening a space within the next year. I am wondering > if there are any spaces that are keeping track of jobs created in > their spaces? If so, how many jobs have been created? > > The reason behind asking this information is because we would like to > have some information to present in order to get funding from the > Economic Development Center. Any information would be helpful. > > Thanks, > Brian Whipple > > Website: www.incubationworks.com > Twitter: www.twitter.com/incubationworks > Facebook: www.facebook.com/incubationworks > Email: br...@incubationworks.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To post to this group, send email to cowork...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<coworking%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to cowork...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
