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TechShop, Ford Partner on Automotive Innovation Center

Small Business Labs

When TechShop first opened several years ago, it was positioned as a workshop for hobbyists.    This partnership highlights a trend we posted on last week - the growing role hackerspaces and industrial coworking facilities  are playing as shared work environments for entrepreneurs and inventors.   

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Coworking for the Bio-Curious

Small Business Labs

  Think of them as shared workshops instead of shared offices.  .  But the concepts - shared space, targeted at independent workers and small businesses, an emphasis on community and networking - are being picked up in a variety of fields and shared facilities. Hackerspaces  are an example. 

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Small Business Labs: Coworking for the Bio-Curious

Small Business Labs

  Think of them as shared workshops instead of shared offices.  .  But the concepts - shared space, targeted at independent workers and small businesses, an emphasis on community and networking - are being picked up in a variety of fields and shared facilities. Hackerspaces  are an example. 

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What is Freelance Camp?

Small Business Labs

" Freelance Camp is modeled on BarCamps, which are open, participatory workshop-events.  .  It's part of a broader Freelance Camp effort aimed at providing "accurate information and community support that empowers people to run a successful independent business."   Space is generally limited and costs low. 

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Christoph Fleischmann of Arthur | Bridging the Hybrid Work Divide with Mixed Reality

Allwork

In 2011, he co-founded a machine learning startup and later went on to be an early leader at two VR companies, Inflight VR and Megaparticle, the company behind PokerVR. I have all of the capabilities and the attention of people that I enjoy when I’m actually in a workshop physically with them. CEO and Founder of Arthur.

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Over 250 US Coworking Facilities

Small Business Labs

  These are shared workshops that cater - at least in part - to inventors, entrepreneurs and small businesses.  .  As of the end of August, we found 226 office-based coworking facilities in operation in the U.S.    Tech Shop is a good example of an industrial coworking facility.  View an alternate.

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