A few months ago, Pacific Workplaces, a California based business centers network, took over Next Space, a coworking brand with locations in Berkeley, Santa Cruz and San Jose. Why did a business center operator buy one of the best known historical bay area's coworking brand ? What was the vision and how is the integration going ? Laurent Dhollande, CEO of Pacific Workplaces and boss of CloudVO,...
In France, the Trigano family is a close to a legend. Decades ago, Gilbert Trigano founded the worldwide famous 'Club Med' brand. In 2017, his grandson Jeremie is now walking in his shoes. Mama Works is a network of coworking spaces inspired by their experience in the hotel industry, especially with the Mama Shelter brand, a collection of designed by Philippe Starck hotels, with locations now in...
Takayuki Hagihara is one of the well-known faces within the coworking global scene. Tokyo based Takayuki travelled the world visiting dozens of coworking spaces and building up a limitless knowledge of the multi-diverse way the coworking model is implemented on the five continents. ULSLab's (Ubiquitous Lifestyle Laboratory, his company) mission is "the realization of a society where everyone can...
The maturation of the coworking market showcases a more and more perceivable split between two kind of players : well funded growing coworking brands, with a multi-location strategy, on the one hand locally rooted independent coworking spaces with a more focused identity and community, on the other hand. The pattern gets confirmed is a steadily growing number of metropoles around the globe...
Hector Kolonas is the founder of Included.co, an online platform organising group purchases for a network of over 200 coworking communities in the world. The service helps the spaces to buy supplies and services at a discounted price, thanks to the generated volumes. As a London-based startup, which initially started to work with the London coworking ecosystem, Hector is ideally positioned to...
Jean-Yves Huwart, founder of SocialWorkplaces.com and initiator of the Coworking Europe conference was interviewed, last month, by Building magazine, a Canada-based magazine covering the Real Estate and Construction industry. It's not a secret that the Real Estate industry is wondering how to deal with the growing phenomenon of coworking. The flexible model could slowly disrupt the...
Ahoy! Berlin is a Berlin based space for coworking and innovation. The more than 4.000 m2 big space host now freelancers as well as sartups and corporations. Hi Stéphanie, can you introduce the Ahoy! Berlin project? What is it about? Our main goal is to create a dynamic yet sustainable community where people have the freedom to collaborate, to explore and to have fun. We stand behind the main 5...
Marouan Aoudia is an Algerian national, born and educated in the US. During 10 years, he worked in the corporate world before shifting towards the entrepreneurial world, end of 2015, armed with a long list of projects among which to open a coworking space in Algeria : The Address. Hello Marouan. Could you introduce yourself as well as The Address project? I was introduced to coworking for the...
Last week at the Social Workplace Amsterdam 2017 Conference, Eduard Schaepman, CEO of Tribes, told the audience that 26 companies from the UK already reached out to them to prepare the partial transfer of their team and activity to the Dutch city. "London established companies are using the passport multi-location flexible office brands offer to commute between cities and prepare themselves up...
In January 2015, the Hubud team created and hosted Coworking Unconference Asia, which had around 120 attendees from around Asia. During the last session at the event, the team asked the audience whether or not they should form an Asian Coworking Alliance. The simple question led to an impassioned discussion about the potential alliance, concluding with 3 coworking spaces offered to take the...
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