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Austin Startup Community Vision - true alpha

Published
by
John Erik
on April 21, 2008
in Austin and Coworking
. 6 Comments

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…for Austin

  • Austin has a Startup District. Blocks of startups flying their flags to the world - I want this to be an attraction when people come to Austin. Highest props to Dane Hurtubise for originally coming up with this one.
  • The startup community in Austin knows each other. (Yeah.)
  • When tech people come to Austin we twitter ‘em up and we welcome them as family. When they get they know wher to go and where they can stay. We love our community.
  • AustinStartup.com has stuff to talk about non stop. Like the valley, people who run blogs about austin startups can live off just blogging. There is that much traffic; because people really care. right?! …this is how the community stays up-to-date with the people around them - people report on it.
  • One of us hits a home run. I’m talkin Google. :)
  • We have several kick ass coworking spaces - including one that is straight up free.
  • (1 Year) We have a micro fund - 10-15 teams per year - 25K max. similar to ycom / techstars <— <3
  • Oh, and we have people running the fund who know what they are doing — who are these people in Austin? Answer me that. …I know one I want on the team: Jared Slosberg. Sosa bothers would be nice. I could go on.
  • there is a bar downtown that you can walk into at anytime and see some great startup people.

…for The University of Texas

  • Coworking space for students, near campus -call it an incubator, call it a hatchery, i’ll call it coworking
  • Official concentration in entrepreneurship available to all majors - similar to “business foundations”
  • Grads and Undergrads know where to go if they have an idea or are interested in entrepreneurship -single place that embraces them, fosters them, understands them. COMEON!

conjunctured guys, john sibley butler, marc nathen, whurley, andrew hyde, Thomas Marriott … just so you know, i thought of all of you while writing this.

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Forms and verbiage, feel free to pass it on:
Conjunctured is opening a Coworking space in Austin. We’re following the lead of some of our friends in other cities: [http://www.indyhall.org/] [http://nwcny.com/]

We’re looking to plant this space in the heart of a “Startup District.” A place where all the startups in Austin live. Where we proudly fly our flags to world. The district is an attraction in Austin. If you think you might be interested in playing with us, let us know by filling out this fancy form, here:
http://tinyurl.com/68f89z

If you don’t need / want a space. But you’re interested in sponsoring this endeavor (great for social capital, exposure to potential recruits, and PR), you can let us know that, here:

http://tinyurl.com/5usods

Austin Coworking space, future plans

Published
by
John Erik
on April 15, 2008
in Coworking
. 3 Comments

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We have a lot going on at Conjunctured these days - most of it overlaps with what I’ve been talking about recently. I want to bring you all up to speed. So, here’s a list of everything we are doing.

btw Conjunctured is a co-company I co-founded with Dusty, Matt, David, and Cesar about 2 months ago - it started at a Jelly.

1.) 1-2 months out - open a coworking space in Austin similar to the following

Coworking definition: Coworking is cafe-like community/collaboration space for developers, writers and independents.

If this sounds cool, it would be great if you’d fill out one or two of these forms for we can get rolling with all this

We are looking at spaces with several agents NOW. However, we all know the best deals come from relationships and connections. If you know of a space on the east side, downtown, or on south congress - PLEASE let me know.

Here is a thread about our plans for the coworking space.

2.) Ongoing - Help organizations have conversations online.

Conjunctured leverages the power of collaboration and community. We are inspired by the existing concept of coworking and call ourselves a “co-company” – it’s a term we came up with that describes how the company is structured – we don’t employ people. Instead, a team of independent freelancers, all specialists in their own areas, come together to collaborate on the projects they feel most passionate about.

3.) 1 year - micro-fund; akin to

Here’s a link to my personal vision(1.0) for Austin’s startup community http://blog.think27.com/austin-startup-community-vision/