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How VCs, Accelerators, and Coworking Spaces Put Communities in Buildings vs. Buildings in Communities

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I'll bet you don't know where the Center of NY's Tech Community and Center of Creativity is. In fact, it is "well-known internationally as the original home of New York's technology community.". VCs and fulltime angels bring a lot more than just money to the communities they invest in. It says so right on their website.

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The Glue that Makes a Community Stick

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Cheaper rents could make it a great place for the creative community and there''s no reason why it shouldn''t become as popular a destination for out of town events the same way that Austin has. What was harder to figure out how to do--and something no one ever really thinks about on the economic development side, is community.

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What the End of Coworking at General Assembly Means for New York

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General Assembly isn''t really a coworking company. By professionalizing startup education in NYC, GA has made a huge impact in the community. GA isn''t any better at coworking than anywhere else. Yes, it''s a cool group of people--and I was a community member as well. Keep calm and cowork on. We''ll be just fine.

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The Future of Brick and Mortar

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Perhaps the most widely known example that touches the tech community is General Assembly --almost 30,000 square feet. Loosecubes, a network for desk space, wound up getting outpaced by the underlying availibility of coworking spaces themselves--when there's one on seemingly every corner, you no longer have trouble finding availability.

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Bill DeBlasio's Uber targeting is in danger of making NYC a tech joke

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It's also hard to argue that anyone who supports NYC's tech community wouldn't have rather had Uber build their company here versus in San Francisco. Imagine what the NYC tech community would be like had Uber and Airbnb grown up here. Uber employs 3000 people, more than most startups in NYC do, and is only six years old.

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The Best Coworking Spaces in Detroit for Your Hybrid Work Model

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Coworking spaces support hybrid work models in a variety of ways. You’ll also often hear companies that started in coworking spaces praise the networking benefits of being in a shared space — team collaboration, events and close contact with people in other companies helps startups connect and grow.

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Coworking Megatrend Predictions for 2020

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by Liz Elam, founder of GCUC, the Global Coworking Unconference Conference. As founder of GCUC, the world’s largest coworking conference series, I travel the world learning about coworking. At the end of each year, I look ahead to where the coworking world is going and share my predictions for the coming year.