Alex Hillman
better coworking, better business, and better communities
better coworking, better business, and better communities
A 140-character-at-a-time adventure that could’ve been any Saturday night, but just so happened to be last night.
Continue ReadingDavid Dylan Thomas and Mo Gaston are up to something. They’re doing a documentary-style web series on what we – the Philly Tech Community – has been up to for the last few years. The series is set to launch later this year, but they’ve been doing interviews since the beginning...
Continue ReadingJeff Atwood is a prominent programmer, and wrote this article about dealing with community feedback in his prominent programming community…but the lessons are 100% for coworking communities, too. These lessons become particularly pertinent to helping our communities scale beyo...
Continue ReadingI answered this qurestion on Quora and decided to post here for the rest of the normal world :).
Continue ReadingThe topic of social capital came up on the coworking google group today. My boy Trek, from Workantile, was cited for his usage of “social capital and debt” to determine which members might be not worth retaining.
Continue ReadingThis post rang true of a comment that I’ve made many times about what to look for in a great business partner, and one of the reasons why I think it’s impossible to find a great business partner with the “speed dating” approach.
Continue ReadingOne of my favorite Philadelphians and human beings, Wil Reynolds, tipped me off on this post tonight.
Continue ReadingI’ve never considered myself a risk taker. I don’t like risks. I don’t like feeling out of control.
Continue ReadingFrom a new piece in Flying Kite today:
Continue ReadingMost of the time, when a topic or trend gets big enough, people consider it an “industry” and they start to organize conferences for people to gather around the topic.
Continue ReadingThis morning I woke up in Berlin and spoke to a room of over 200 international coworking space owners, coworking catalysts, coworking enthusiasts, and a whole bunch who I’d call “coworking curious”.
Continue ReadingWell look at that. Indy Hall and our cohousing collaboration with Postgreen Homes & DIGSAU is one of the features in this month’s Philadelphia Magazine titled, “The Indy Hall Experiment“.
Continue ReadingWe’ve done a lot of experimenting with desk layouts at Indy Hall.
Continue ReadingMy series of essays on the 5 coworking core values have begin being translated & interpreted!
Continue ReadingIn just a couple of weeks I’ll be heading to Berlin, my first time in Berlin in fact, to give the opening presentation at the 2nd annual Coworking Europe Conference.
Continue ReadingUpdate: this discussion on Reddit proved more worthwhile than expected, especially considering it’s abrupt introduction.
Continue ReadingMake genetically-engineered bacteria, sequence DNA, find the tools to get your bio-project growing, or make friends with amateurs and experts in the community.Meet BioCurious.
Continue ReadingIf knowing how to start is hard, and knowing how (or when) to stop is even harder, then knowing how often to do things between starting and stopping is the hardest. Because of this, EVERYONE is guilty of having a “great idea” that doesn’t stick right away, and giving up after ...
Continue ReadingThe 4 year anniversary party photobooth was a huge hit, and Sean Martorana (who’s responsible for the vast majority of the art around Indy Hall over the last year) thought it would be fun to pick some of the best photos, have them printed and mounted, and then do a collage som...
Continue ReadingWhen I started coworking and created the term I very consciously dropped the hyphen. My intention is for coworking to be closer to the word collaboration, which does not have a hyphen, rather than co-worker. I also wanted the term to feel informal, and a dash in coworking fe...
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