Tony Hsieh, Zappos' chief executive, is also developing a large co-working space in downtown Las Vegas, and Zappos employees are encouraged to work out of co-working facilities, the company says.
Similar to a co-working space, the General Assembly campuses are like co-learning spaces.
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This summer SIP offered co-working space, weekly programming, team building, mentorship, and practice pitch rounds for over ten teams.
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In 2005, he struck out on his own, crowdfunding a product before starting a co-working space in Hong Hong called Boot.hk.
Ali serves as a mentor to Startup Labs-Syracuse and at Cornell University Ali is a junior and a co-founder of the co-working space: The PopShop.
She is also the co-founder of In Good Company Workplaces, a first-of-its-kind community, learning center and co-working space for women entrepreneurs in New York City.
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Anyone with experience and knowledge to share can teach a class, and any place can be a classroom a co-working space, coffee shop, garage or conference room.
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For example, our local co-working space, The Grove, received assistance through Project Storefronts, a city economic development program to help boost the vitality of the Ninth Square neighborhood.
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Zappos is also opening up its lobby as a free co-working space, like a trendy hotel lobby, so that employees can mingle with workers from other companies and visitors.
Both predicting the future of work and designing for it (whether as a corporate HR executive, a coffee shop owner, a vendor of virtual-work technologies or an entrepreneur developing a co-working space) involves thinking about a messy and complicated bundle of ideas with at least a couple of dozen major dimensions.
Drew Jones, co-author of a book on co-working, thinks that there is scope to turn empty retail space in the suburbs of big cities into large co-working facilities.
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