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Using Coworking Spaces To Transition from Corporate to Enteprise

By Araceli On January 11, 2011 In Blog With No Comments Permanent Link to Using Coworking Spaces To Transition from Corporate to EnteprisePermalink

We are really lucky to be living in times of change, you can feel it in the air. We are hearing people ask core questions about their careers and economy; How do I create value? How do I create a career that is fulfilling financially and to society? Is the current corporate structure sustainable? etc.

These questions are acting as exit catalysts for corporate people, however what happens once you take the plunge into enterprise?

Working From Anywhere
There is a perspection that once you leave the vertical structure of the corporation you have the liberty to work from anywhere. However, most of the time you end up working in your home office without changing from our pajamas. Once the initial novelty of wears off, the feeling of isolation begins to set in. There are no more watercolor moments, or after work drinks, or the general buzz of a social environment. This can be a lonely and maddening experience. This where choosing the right place to work comes into place.

Coworking spaces are a great place to start, granted we have a biased opinion, non the less they provide a better community feel than serviced offices. After making such a big change in your life its great to have a space that houses other people who are going through the same thing. Coworking spaces make you feel like you are part of something familiar again, it’s a bit like going to the office, except you get to do what you want.

Mimicking Behaviour
The other difference is finding yourself away from familiar behaviours. There are no colleagues to banter with or share ideas, there is no one to delegate to, or even someone who can just pass on a tip.

Coworking spaces tend to mimic some of these behaviors. You have the set-up of an office, you have new ‘colleagues’ who can help move your idea forward and you get to chat about current events. We are social animals and we need to this type of interaction to feel connected and even to release dopamine, which is the neurochemical responsible for generating ideas. Plus patterns are comforting as they are familiar, which is what coworking spaces offer – a new place to go and interact with ‘colleagues’.

Making The Decision
Even before you set foot in a coworking space, you first have to make the decision to take the plunge. How do you decide? Most coworking spaces offer really competitive pricing, so join for one month and observe what is like to be an entrepreneur. Go to the events and meet people who are doing it, ask them questions about their process. Seeing other people creating their own business will make it more tangible for you, which will then minimize the fear.

About THECUBE Coworking Space
THECUBE offers events that are open to the community, creating an opportunity for people to come by and see what its like to make the transition from corporation to enterprise.

How Coworking Spaces Will Help Shape The New Economy

By Araceli On August 25, 2010 In Uncategorized With 1 Comment Permanent Link to How Coworking Spaces Will Help Shape The New EconomyPermalink

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There seems to be some misconceptions about what defines a coworking space. Many offices who find themselves with excess space are re-branding and calling their offices a coworking environment. This of course is not coworking. It’s not about a couple of people just showing up to the same space or a place acquire ‘cheap office space’.

Coworking spaces are more than just space, convenience, or a random unification of desks. They are places where economy is being produced, new sectors are being created, and unlikely people are creating interesting communities. As companies and individual entrepreneurs search for ways to create innovation, our spaces should be a haven for people with ideas. They should act as idea laboratories where people can experiment with new processes of developing and implementing ideas.

When we started the THECUBE in London, we had no idea that we were a coworking space. The vision we had was to create a space that would facilitate the process from idea to enterprise. As we progress to our first birthday we are realising the true potential of coworking as an industry and it stretches beyond the desk-space we provide. All of the coworking spaces around the world have a chance to create a significant impact in building an economy for their town, city, or country.

Idea Engineering  Agency has put together four visions of how coworking spaces will help shape the economy:

THECUBE has created a process to make innovation leaner, faster, and effective for its members. People will be coming to coworking spaces with a lot of questions and we should be prepared to provide answers. With the creation of our Idea Engineering Agency, we are giving our members a leading edge against their competitors. Coworking spaces should be experimenting with processes of innovation and help create enterprises that are quickly sustainable in order to help create faster economy. It will be incredible to look back in five years and see how many jobs were created due to coworking innovation.

Coworking spaces have the ability to create a voice in their respective entrepreneurial communites and as such can begin to support the needs and wants of entrepreneurs beyond the space. We can act like a magnet to attract what would be unattainable resources for our members, like investment firms, sponsorships, and external partnerships. Being a voice and a guide for enterprise will move things faster and help influence change.

Coworking spaces bring together people of different thought processes, experiences, and talents. The interaction between people of such diverse backgrounds makes our spaces a breeding ground for strong idea communities, which will then lead to the creation of new sectors and industries. As we discussed in our article How To Build Economy, new sectors will help build a stronger economy as they will use the intelligence of people in new ways and create better jobs. Coworking spaces provide a faster economy force start-up businesses. One of the most important ingredients in building an economically sustainable business is contacts and community. We are creating tribes of people who are helping each other connect faster.

Coworking spaces can help change perspectives in regards to how a population views economy. For instance, we were in Orlando last week and we observed that people, who could very easily start their own business would rather opt for searching for employment. It seems that still in these type of cities people can only think of themselves as employees instead of people who may potentially have a good idea to turn into a business. So it is up to the coworking space in these cities to create events and conversations to begin to change conceptions on enterprise.


Say Goodbye to Office Space

By Araceli On June 28, 2010 In Blog With No Comments Permanent Link to Say Goodbye to Office SpacePermalink

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Coworking spaces have been gaining momentum since 2007 and they are quickly becoming the new way of working. It’s a format of working that even academia is starting to adopt as way to introduce a better flow of collaboration and concentration.

What makes Coworking space so attractive?

1. They spark collaboration, especially coworking space, which  have a diverse community, like THECUBE.
2. They give idea makers a sense of community and security. If you see other people taking the plunge to make their idea happen, then you don’t feel so isolated.
3. Gives birth to new skills by ‘osmosis’ in other words you learn by just being around new knowledge.
4.  Creates new neighbourhoods of knowledge, which can be used to expand mindspace, knowledge, and create new way of implementing your idea.
5.  It helps create new neurological connections. When we first learn a task or are exposed to novel information our brain thrives and creates new pathways of thinking as it becomes routine, it stops. By just being in a coworking environment will create novel experiences for your brain, which leads to better generation of idea.

THECUBE coworking space is based in Shoreditch East London and we offer a variety of services.

From Virtual office space, boardroom hire, meeting spaces, gallery, FREE events, and consultancy.

For more information, please visit our membership tiers and virtual office space services.

THECUBE
155 Commercial Street
02073779279
info@thecubelondon.com