Re: [Coworking] Fascinating Academic Paper on Coworking

Thanks, Scott! Great to see how you're pushing things forward with Beahive. Perhaps we could coordinate efforts; I'm putting together a program to make it easier for coworking spaces to track and optimize for impact: http://nwc.co/3/impact-coworking-program/ Let me know if you want to discuss! T

Re: [Coworking] Fascinating Academic Paper on Coworking

That. All of it. That is exactly why I started BEAHIVE 7 years ago (next week!). I address a bit of that when I applied to the Mentor Capital Network (fka William James Foundation) Sustainable Business Plan Competition, which “supports entrepreneurs who are designing companies for the long-term

Re: [Coworking] Fascinating Academic Paper on Coworking

Awesome share, Steve. Thanks! The fundamental issues with our current systems of finance, education, governance and labor have made themselves largely apparent, but it is only through circumventing those systems in local communities that we may discover and build better systems that may one day ta

[Coworking] Fascinating Academic Paper on Coworking

The Social Economy of Coworking Spaces: A Focal Point Model of Coordination suggest that coworking facilities provide "a focal (Schelling) point for finding people, ideas and other resources when you lack the information necessary fo