Small Business Labs

AUGUST 2, 2010

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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Small Business Labs

APRIL 12, 2011

  Intuit and Emergent Research partnered on this research, which included interviews and workshops with a mix of financial services industry participants, analysts and academics. Intuit recently released a new report on The Future of Financial Services. 

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Small Business Labs

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

  Intuit and Emergent Research, with help from the global design and innovation firm Ideo , conducted a series of forecast workshops, exercises, and interviews with accounting professionals, academics, industry analysts and the media. 

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Small Business Labs

JULY 30, 2010

  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

JULY 30, 2010

  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

JUNE 7, 2010

" 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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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

  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. 

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JUNE 20, 2016

A glamorous, sunken living room and a cosy, den-like music room are available for performances, receptions, workshops, guest speakers and more. On a separate floor, Spring Place also operates an all-day dining restaurant, bar and lounge, which in turn comes with two private dining rooms for more reserved situations.

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

We also conducted dozens of interviews and held multiple focus groups and workshops on independent work. .  This is the 3rd year we've worked with MBO Partners on this study and it's the most in-depth analysis of the independent workforce (freelancers, the self-employed, etc.) we're aware of. million, up from 16.9

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Small Business Labs

APRIL 30, 2018

including Makerspaces - communal workshops where entrepreneurial makers share ideas and tools - shared biolabs, auto repair spaces, artist spaces and many others.  A lot of people think the coworking movement is only about shared office space, which is wrong. There are thousands of other types of shared workspaces in the U.S.,

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