Brickyard is a coworking space in Ashbourne, VA which is one of the suburbs in Washington DC. Ann Orem, founder of Brickyard, began working on it eighteen months ago, and her prior experience in commercial real estate development helped her develop the space. She began her research on the marketplace to determine whether a traditional coworking space would survive in the suburbs and soon realized there was a ‘gaping hole’ in the market for local entrepreneurs, tech startups, and small…
There is a bubble in the coworking industry especially here in the Tier 1 Cities of the United States. You have been warned, and you should be careful before opening a new space or signing on the dotted lines. Some may disagree with me and call me plain old crazy because everyone is in the boom mode. The bubble will not pop tomorrow or in the next six month. Rather I feel that the bubble will pop in the next…
The first WeWork space of India was opened in Bengaluru under the supervision of Karan Virwani, the director of WeWork India. On a short interview with Rukmini Rao from CNBC, Virwani shared his experience with WeWork and his vision for the future of coworking in India. Within its first seven years, WeWork has established itself as one of the most popular coworking enterprises, perfecting the concept of shared workspaces in terms of keeping up with latest technology, mastering the community…
On July 3rd, 2017 Ryan Chatterton came live from Tuesday Coworking in Berlin marveling at the architecture of European coworking spaces. He and one of the pioneers of the coworking world - Alex Hillman, hosted an online event together to share their observations about current coworking industry and find answers to some burning questions in this field. They started with giving a brief introduction about themselves. Ryan of Utah came into this business four years ago, just because he did…
Global Coworking Unconference Conference (GCUC) 2017 was all about digging deep into the heart of coworking and its extraordinary power to connect people, and transform communities. The first day of the conference included a session with Amrit Dhir from Google for Entrepreneurs, who presented ‘What Google has learned from building hubs for Entrepreneurs across the globe.' In the session, Amrit began with the notion that coworking spaces harbor people with different backgrounds and experiences. Sharing of these experiences and the…
