Alex Hillman
better coworking, better business, and better communities
better coworking, better business, and better communities
2010 was different.
Continue ReadingI have a feeling this is going to become a meme of some sort, as people begin to bail on SXSW for “jumping the shark” or, “not scaling”.
Continue ReadingMy reading regiment has been predominantly non-fiction for most of my adult life, which is a bummer and a half. I struggle to read fiction these days, mostly because there’s not enough time in the day to read all of the non-fiction stuff I want to. Also, for all of my love for...
Continue ReadingMy buddy Jonathan Finnegan (a.k.a. Finn, or that guy who Karaoke’d “The Humpty Dance” and “Just a Friend” with a broken arm at Cogaoke in years past) asked me,
Continue ReadingAmong the interesting growth patterns I’ve seen as coworking has begun to make the transition from nascent “nerd clubs” to mainstream is varying instances of support from Economic Development Centers/Councils/Committees/Corporations .
Continue ReadingI met Daniel Shipton, founder of since-shuttered “Impromptu Studio” in Des Moines, and knew he was in it for all the right reasons.
Continue ReadingI’ve been a broken record for years on the topic of the importance of “finding your members before you even start looking for space” when it comes to opening coworking spaces, but nothing illustrates how powerful it can be than this quote from Joel Bennet of Veel Hoeden in Pel...
Continue ReadingI’m coming down from a 48 hour binge. Not one fueled by two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…and also a quart...
Continue ReadingI met a guy named Sam Jones this weekend at FooCamp. He buys dead magazines. He’s awesome.
Continue ReadingI wanted to publish this before I arrived tomorrow at NewsFoo, a niche FooCamp co-organized by O’Reilly, Google, and the Knight News Foundation. It’s self-described as “a gathering of 150 key practitioners and thinkers from the worlds of journalism, technology, and public poli...
Continue ReadingThere’s a handful of great creative industry job boards that aren’t specific to Philadelphia, and the ones that are here tend to be relatively underused or mis-populated. At the same time, Indy Hall has been decidedly pinned as a “source for talent”, while we actively avoid pu...
Continue Reading“Philly kicks ass. The creative class term, though, always comes off to me as a way for someone else to co-opt the work of the doers. Don’t try to name us.” – Geoff DiMasi
Continue ReadingPhiladelphia’s tech community is special.
Continue ReadingGiving good advice is difficult.
Continue ReadingThis is a repost from the Coworking Google Group, because I thought it was useful enough to share here as well.
Continue ReadingIn 2007, when Geoff and I sat down to figure out how to make Indy Hall a real place for the real people we’d already recruited, we made a decision to operate it as a business.
Continue Reading“So, what do you do?”
Continue ReadingJust over a year ago, Parker Whitney showed up at Indy Hall during our search for an intern.
Continue ReadingLast night I spent some time on the phone with my good friend Jacob brainstorming with him some ideas for his upcoming presentation at the Coworking EU conference. Near the end of our conversation (which yielded some pretty exciting directions and possibilities for him to fill...
Continue ReadingI just got a pretty interesting email from a small business incubator asking, quite simply, if we keep track of how many jobs have been created by Indy Hall. Of all of the metrics that I’ve wished I could provide, this one simply hadn’t crossed my mind because it represents an...
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