When I was doing my original business market research for CCC I discovered that place is very important. This is the case for most physical businesses with public space. (ex. retail) Experienced business people express this with the refrain, “Location, Location, Location”
As I got into the day to day of running a coworking space the [...]
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One of the constants of my creative life and career has been audio/video production. In college I edited a lot of video for the web and shot film for animation. After school I learned the non-linear film editing software AVID and worked in Los Angeles. Since then I’ve kept my skills current and obtained all [...]
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Yesterday I signed a lease for office space in downtown Carrboro! After almost two years of work its FINALLY starting to happen. But this is only the beginning. So much more to do before we open. So much to do to run the space.
Last night I shared with friends and supporters the news.
Via Twitter
Via [...]
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I’ve just added a few posts to this blog about Green Business. I’m espcially interested in seeing it grow in Orange County, North Carolina. (That includes Chapel Hill and Carrboro.) So you’ll see on the top right of this blog a link to all the posts in the Green Business category. I hope this becomes [...]
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A few weeks ago I had the privilege of seeing Van Jones speak. He co-founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and is founder and president of Green For All. He spoke convincingly of a future of increased equality and how one of the roads to this future is green jobs. Green-collar jobs [...]
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Great blog post here about the ever changing read/write web aka web2.0, social graph, social media, etc. Jus READ THIS –> Ladies and Gentlemen, The Conversation Has Left The Building Here’s a good quote:
As Social Media evolves, the value of online conversations is becoming distributed and decentralized. As the host of any given conversation, it [...]
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Would you please take my new survey? It’s short. Go to this url to complete. http://ccc.sp1.sgizmo.com
Carrboro Coworking is moving steadily forward. I’m about to make some big decisions and could really use your help.
If you haven’t taken the first Carrboro Coworking survey I’d really appreciate it if you did. Might be good if you [...]
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There is a good article up at the Carrboro Commons called Carrboro’s Creative Coworking in the works. It covers pretty well what Carrboro Coworking will be all about and where I’m at right now in the process. Its been a amazing trip to get this far. So much more todo. But we’re close to making [...]
I’m trying out this new video services called Seesmic that so many folks are jazzed about. Decided to share videos about my odd dreams with you. Thanks for the invite Wayne!
Update Within minutes I have a video response to my first real seesmic video! Amazing! see it at RE: Dream 01.03.07 – Accounting?
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Evan Williams of Blogger, Odeo, and Twitter fame has a great blog post up called Will it fly? How to Evaluate a New Product Idea. Its actually helping me evaluate my ideas. Especially my business ideas. Check out his Ten Rules for Web Startups too.
Tractability
Question: How difficult will it be to launch a worthwhile version [...]
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