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The lack of willingness to collaborate is a challenge freelancers and coworking spaces face – Matt Lambert (Coworking Montenegro)

Sep 9, 2017 | Coworking, Digital freelancers

Matt Lambert, who originally hails from the United States, moved to Montenegro in 2013 to work with a travel startup. Around the end of 2014, Matt began noticing a “gap in the business ecosystem” especially in relation to freelancers, startups, and creatives, while simultaneously taking an interest in coworking. Inspired the coworking movement in the surrounding region, like Serbia’s successful...

Coworking to change the work culture in Japan

Aug 9, 2017 | Business, Digital freelancers

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...

“Coworking can help emerging countries to diversify their economy” – The Address (Algiers)

May 15, 2017 | Business, Digital freelancers

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...

Coworking in Asia to challenge traditional hierarchies and make room for innovation?

Mar 31, 2017 | Business, Coworking Europe, Creativity, Design, Digital freelancers

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...

Coworking hubs are a key driver of Amsterdam’s plan to become a world startup hotspot

Mar 20, 2017 | Business, Coworking Europe, Digital freelancers

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]StartupAmsterdam is a public/private initiative, with a time-span of four years to fortify the city’s position as leading startup hub in Europe, and increase the international visibility of Amsterdam’s startup ecosystem. The growth of a wide web of coworking spaces and accelerators all over Amsterdam is a strong argument used on StartupAmsterdam's communication...

How to measure coworking business performances

Mar 14, 2017 | Business, Coworking, Coworking Europe, Digital freelancers

At the most recent Coworking Europe conference, which took place in Brussels in November of last year, Anil George, Head of Operations at 91Springboard, India’s largest Coworking network, facilitated a masterclass on how Coworking spaces measure their business performance. Here is a sum up of the workshop. 1. Determine the right metrics and indicators Coworking spaces, like any other...

The design of our space is research backed to promote varied types of interactions-Ben Gattie,The Working Capitol

Mar 8, 2017 | Business, Coworking Europe, Creativity, Design, Digital freelancers, Real Estate, Technology

Ben Gattie, the co-founder, and CEO at The Working Capitol wanted to nurture creative work environments in his home country of Singapore. After working for a real estate developer focused on SoHo loft conversions in New York City, Ben returned to Singapore about 8 years ago and set up The Bamboo Group, a boutique real estate company specializing in the redevelopment of neighborhood shop houses....

“70% of employees would quit their current position for more flexible work arrangements”-Sam Rosen, Deskpass

Feb 19, 2017 | Creativity, Digital freelancers, Technology

Deskpass was born from the experiences of the founders of The Coop, a dedicated coworking space in Chicago. While all coworkers can appreciate the benefits of having a dedicated community, the growing freelancer economy demands variety and access to a range of communities and spaces. This is where Deskpass comes in. Founding member Sam Rosen, who also worked on Desktime, a software used for...

Coworking in Japan is still in its nascent stages, we hope Startup Retreat Japan can help popularize the movement.

Jan 31, 2017 | Business, Creativity, Digital freelancers

Daniel Klose was working as a project manager in Berlin, enjoying the vibrant startup scene, but looking to get outside of the city. Having always dreamt of working remotely, but not willing to commute on a daily basis, he decided to change things up in a big way. He and his wife packed up their things and moved to Japan and open a Café in the countryside. Combining the café and web development...

How to bring balance between Automation and Human interaction in a coworking space ?

Dec 26, 2016 | Business, Creativity, Data, Design, Digital freelancers

As human-centric workspaces are rise, so are workplace management tools. Nexudus Spaces co-founder, Carlos Almansa has recognized the need for optimizing everyday tasks in the workplace. Technology as a compliment, not a replacement Some might be sceptical of running operations digitally, out of fear that it might take away from the human experience. But that just depends how we look at it....

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