Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Boulder Business Boom: Collaborative Workspaces Offer Incoming Entrepreneurs, Startups A Home

This is a blog post from Ari Pregen's Blog

Boulder Business Boom: Collaborative Workspaces Offer Incoming Entrepreneurs, Startups A Home



It’s important to note that I currently work at Impact Hub Boulder, as a social media and communications intern. Before that, I had spent some time in the Techstars Boulder office. These spaces are what introduced me to the profundity that is open-space and collaborative workspaces.



Members and Boulder locals collaborate at a Hackfest at Impact Hub. photo courtesy of / Impact Hub Boulder



What we have in Boulder is no recreation of the wheel. If anything, it’s just taking advantage of an economic triumph turned boom and bringing back a very good set of wheels that were lost through years of competitive capitalism selfishness, and a poor U.S. economy.


That’s not the case for the City of Boulder these days. With Engine.is and the Kauffman Foundation’s report bringing buzz about there being more tech startups per capita than any metro area in the Nation, it’s likely that it will continue to see the surge it’s experiencing now in entrepreneurship. And those businesses, some made from the mixing of Baby Boomers and Millennials, aren’t trying to take on the poor success rates – 9 out of 10 fail – that revolve around startup cultures. It’s all about collaboration.


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