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A global survey on the benefits of coworking for coworkers

Jean-Yves Huwart — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:35:52 +0000

The economic think tank Entreprise Globale/Globecorp.biz and the Coworking Europe 2010 conference are partners in the first global survey on coworking users, initiated by the Technische Universität Berlin and Deskmag.

Click here to take part in the Global Coworking survey

This survey is part of an academic, non-commercial study examining the working conditions of coworkers in coworking spaces. It’s the first global survey on coworking. The results will be published for free on a magazine or blog in your country.

All replies are anonymous. We don’t at any point ask for your name, or the name of any coworking space.

The questionnaire is simple to use. You also can switch between languages in the upper right corner. The continue button is at the bottom of the page. Have fun and thank you for your participation!

This survey is organized or supported by:

Lukas de Pellegrin, Technical University of Berlin
Carsten Foertsch, Deskmag – Coworking Magazine
Jean Yves Huwart – Coworking Europe / Enterprise Globale – European conference on Coworking 2010
Carolyn Ockels, Coworking Labs – Coworking Research USA
Cadu de Castro Alves, Global Coworking Group
Anderson Costa, Movebla – Brazilian Coworking Magazine
Massimo Carraro, Cowo – Coworking Network Italy
Sebastian Sooth, Hallenprojekt – German Coworking Network
Manuel Zea Barral, Working Space, Coworking Madrid
Akira Matsuda, Coworking JP – Coworking Blog Japan
Nicolas Koreni, moboff – Japanese Coworking Network
Joel Alas, Deskwanted – Global Coworking Space Directory
Nathanaël Sorin-Richez, Silicon Sentier – La Cantine Paris
Pernilla Raj – Coworking Sweden

Tariq Krim : “You don’t pay for using Gmail or Facebook. Why should you pay to use an operating system ?”

Jean-Yves Huwart — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:16:55 +0000

Tariq Krim is a famous web entrepreneur. The founder of Netvibes, a very well known dashboard for anything we do on the internet, he is launching JoliCloud. JoliCloud is an operating system as a service. As opposed to Windows or other OS, JoliCloud is not stored on a computer but on thousands of different servers around the world. Not back up problems, no update problems. A further step in the new generation of computing (interview at Plugg.eu)

Business schools do not teach the startup spirit, so we launched a Startup Academy

Jean-Yves Huwart — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:54:43 +0000

Alex Barrera is the co-founder of the Tetuan Valley, a network of web companies based in the North of Madrid, in Spain.

According to him, no business school in Europe teaches the spirit neither the vision of a startup runner.

“In Business Schools, we learn to replicate a business model that works elsewhere. Not to be and entrepreneur inventing something new. Operate a company is easy to learn. That is no rocket science. Starting a company requires another set of competences, though”.

That is the reason why Alex Barrera (who has his own startup, Inkzee) has launched, along with other, a startup academy.

It brings coaching, vision and entrepreneur solidarity. Here is his interview

“The efficiency gap between startups and companies managed in a traditional way is widening”

Jean-Yves Huwart — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:33:56 +0000

Enrique Dans is professor at the Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, one of the most famous business school in the world. He is also a very famous blogger in Spain. According to Enrique Dans, traditional companies are stuck in inefficiency traps due to anachronistic management behaviours, inherited from the industrial age. "They still can't figure out to hire people for their intellectual input rather than for the time they spend seating on a chair" (video recorded at EventoBlog 2099, in Sevilla).

Design thinking for startups

Jean-Yves Huwart — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:38:21 +0000

Design Thinking for startups

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“You startups, don’t look for perfection in the early days. Just go forward !”

Jean-Yves Huwart — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:35:21 +0000

Anne Donker comes from Holland and has been living in the Silicon Valley for more than a decade. She is convinced any web startup should settle in Northern California to make grow its businness. 700 VC firm out of 1.000 in the world are based in the Silicon Valley, stresses Anne Donker. They managed 27 billions $ cash. And the connections are there. "Though, you startups, don't forget to remain focused. Don't look for perfection from day one. Just go forward!"