Some co-working spaces are dedicated facilities, others are set up within business incubators or company offices.
Third, accelerators, seed funds and co-working spaces will continue to set up shop in New York.
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Note, Mr. King also highlights a variety of co-working environments worth checking out in the post linked above.
This summer SIP offered co-working space, weekly programming, team building, mentorship, and practice pitch rounds for over ten teams.
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Still, there should be room for many different styles of co-working, particularly if it takes off among larger companies.
Similar to a co-working space, the General Assembly campuses are like co-learning spaces.
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Maker and hackerspaces, places like TechShop, Metrix:CreateSpace (in Seattle), and many other co-working spaces are fueling this exchange.
In 2005, he struck out on his own, crowdfunding a product before starting a co-working space in Hong Hong called Boot.hk.
Alternatively, co-working spaces and other sandboxed environments can offer an inspiring environment.
New co-working chains are emerging, with names like The Hub and NextSpace.
The absolute numbers are still small: Mr King reckons there are now around 760 office-based co-working facilities in America, up from 405 in 2010.
New co-working and collaborative spaces for tech start-ups in Chicago are intended to help overcome those hurdles, by creating breeding grounds for the next Groupon.
Ali serves as a mentor to Startup Labs-Syracuse and at Cornell University Ali is a junior and a co-founder of the co-working space: The PopShop.
Many co-working spaces offer free coffee, tea, and water, some offer free wine and beer around closing time, and others are stocked with free snacks.
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Try co-working and use a site like Loosecubes to help you locate spaces or offices with extra desks that are often available by the day.
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She is also the co-founder of In Good Company Workplaces, a first-of-its-kind community, learning center and co-working space for women entrepreneurs in New York City.
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In some cases, companies are renting desks in co-working spaces, with an idea that workers from different companies, and with different skill sets, can complement one another.
Initially popular among start-ups and freelance workers, co-working spaces are gaining traction among bigger employers who want their staff to cross-pollinate, or interact with employees from other firms.
Drew Jones, co-author of a book on co-working, thinks that there is scope to turn empty retail space in the suburbs of big cities into large co-working facilities.
For example, our local co-working space, The Grove, received assistance through Project Storefronts, a city economic development program to help boost the vitality of the Ninth Square neighborhood.
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There are now dozens of incubators, accelerators, and co-working spaces.
Zappos is also opening up its lobby as a free co-working space, like a trendy hotel lobby, so that employees can mingle with workers from other companies and visitors.
Tony Hsieh, Zappos' chief executive, is also developing a large co-working space in downtown Las Vegas, and Zappos employees are encouraged to work out of co-working facilities, the company says.
Some 9% of U.S. co-working users in 2011 came from companies with more than 100 people, according to an analysis of some 1, 200 co-workers from Emergent Research and co-working site Deskmag.com.
The web co-working clause will see AOL, which in America Online has the world's biggest internet service provider, swap research with Unilever's New Jersey laboratories, which are developing next generation mobile and in-home technology.
While some companies say these co-working initiatives are too young to point to new products created from intercompany mingling, managers add the practice can help inject older firms with a start-up mentality and bring in new talent.
Deputy Minister for European Programmes Alun Davies explained that the Welsh government is co-working with the UK Government, other devolved governments and Welsh partners to help shape the UK's negotiating position and the policy direction for the next round of EU programmes.
Additionally, I can invest in co-working spaces where entrepreneurs collaborate, launch an incubator to nurture new ideas, teach classes as an adjunct professor, publish books, form a peer-to-peer educational network, or found a tech company that enables the developmental process with software.
Both predicting the future of work and designing for it (whether as a corporate HR executive, a coffee shop owner, a vendor of virtual-work technologies or an entrepreneur developing a co-working space) involves thinking about a messy and complicated bundle of ideas with at least a couple of dozen major dimensions.
And so we arrive at the odd reality of tennis in 2013, where Federer and Nadal aren't so much rivals, but co-conspirators working toward a common goal: toppling Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray, two younger, fitter players whose confidence continues to grow.
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