Alex Hillman
better coworking, better business, and better communities
better coworking, better business, and better communities
We’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...
Continue ReadingIn the last few weeks, there’s been announcements of coworking spaces closing. First C4 in San Antonio, then ConvergeNJ. Todd from C4 was an active member of the coworking google group over the years, and I advised Steve from Converge early in his process of getting his effort...
Continue ReadingThis post is part 5 of a 5 part series exploring the 5 core values of coworking: Collaboration, Openness, Community, Accessibility, and Sustainability.
Continue ReadingAs Indy Hall crests 150 members, I wondered – what is growth in terms of a coworking space, a workplace, or even a community in Philadelphia? Is it enough to measure concurrent member count, or should we be looking at something else?
Continue ReadingThe person who wrote this asked me to stay anonymous, but this story was too good to keep to myself.
Continue ReadingOne of the most common recurring questions that shows up in my inbox from prospective coworking space catalysts is rarely asked directly.
Continue ReadingIn early summer of 2007, Indy Hall wasn’t a place, but it was a nomadic tribe. We were moving from bar to cafe to restaurant to living room – anywhere with wifi – in the pursuit of a better working experience than working alone in our apartments.
Continue Reading“the long term relationships that lasted was with a network of people – much larger than those in your current company”This quote comes from a history lesson by Steve Blank about how Silicon Valley came to be what it is.
Continue ReadingI wasn’t in the room for the conversation and breakout groups, but PSL held it’s reboot “fishbowl” last night.
Continue ReadingJoe Petrucci has taken a snapshot of the state of tech startups in Philly as this week’s feature on Flying Kite. He titles it an “underdog” story, an apt reference to a part of the Philly attitude that we know so well from our history.
Continue ReadingDeskMag is doing a series on “The Future of Coworking”. I generally am uninterested in these discussions since they’re so theoretical, compared to the vast amount of exploration of TODAY we could be doing. The closing note by Araceli Camargo from The Cube in London captures th...
Continue ReadingJust one more moment of brilliance from Indy hall members:
Continue ReadingIf I had to pick the lead-in to be used on every piece of press I get from today until the day I die, it’d be the lead-in that Chris Wink wrote for my Q&A on this past Friday’s edition of Technically Philly.
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