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CUBER: Bracket

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Alison Coward started Bracket with the ambition to give creatives the skills and tools to work collaboratively. She joined our THECUBE’s coworking space in November 2009.

Bracket works with creative practitioners (e.g. self-employed designers, artists, illustrators etc) to help them develop and deliver collaborative projects effectively, supported by the use of online tools.

Collaboration offers many benefits for the creative individual – enabling them to work on larger projects, access new opportunities, share resources and learn new skills.  Now, the availability of various social media for new ways of communication brings with it the chance for the creative industries to become even more productive and effective in initiating and delivering collaborative projects.

CUBETHINK: Nick Williams Talk

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 Nick Williams gave a great talk at THECUBE, it was both practical and inspiring. The whole talk is on the this link. http://www.inspired-entrepreneur.com/upload/download.asp?filename=Cube.MP3

However his top three tips are;

1. Hold yourself accountable, tell someone what you would like to do and have them follow up to see if you have done it.

2. Take one tangible baby-step towards the direction that you would like to go.

3. ‘Showup’ no matter how small the opportunity maybe, go ahead and do it as the more you do the more things will begin to happen.

HEADCUBER: Bit Zesty

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 Bit Zesty Ltd builds and designs bespoke web applications. They have helped companies to build social networks, e-commerce sites, project management tools, intranets and twitter applications. They use the leading web application development framework Ruby on Rails and Agile methodologies, this enables them to deliver results on time and on budget.

They are keen to provide best value to their clients and where possible utilize existing open source and paid software or third party APIs to reduce the development time required while providing more feature complete solutions.

AKENHURST FINANCIAL CONSULTANCY

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Akenhurst offers virtual financial consultancy for small business, in other words they help increase your profit by looking at your cash flow. They mainly focus on pricing for improved profitability, intelligent cost reduction, product profitability analysis, and cash flow maximization.

Co-working is an emerging trend at THECUBE

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Co-working is the next big thing and THECUBE in London are at the forefront of this emerging trend – something that is deemed as a new pattern for working.

Many work-at-home professionals, freelancers or people who travel around a lot tend to work in relative isolation.

‘Co-working’ is a social gathering of a group of people, who are still working independently, but who share the same values and who are ‘interested in the synergy that can happen from working with talented people in the same space’.

Of course, the term ‘Co-working’ was first coined by Bernie DeKoven in 1999 and was later described as a ‘physical space’ by Brad Neuberg in 2005. Neuberg started up his own co-working site called the “Hat Factory” in San Francisco.

Now, five years later, co-working spaces are opening up across the globe, offering hot-desking space for people who want to get away from that feeling of isolation and any distractions that freelancers and small businesses might face while working from home.

THECUBE on Commercial Street, East London is one such co-working environment that goes above and beyond simple hot-desking or ‘rent-a-desk’ space. It provides a whole range of benefits and added extras to really help its members. It also offers a diverse community that individuals can tap into whenever they see fit, sharing ideas and supporting each other to grow and become a success.

Co-working is an exciting development and something that we expect to become huge over the next 10 years. If you’d like to see how ‘Co-working’ can work for you, simply pop in for a chat or give us a call on 0207 377 9279.