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I didn't start wynwood tech, but did start refreshmiami back in 2006. None of the chat groups that I know of had the density or momentum to thrive. Lots of acti

I didn't start wynwood tech, but did start refreshmiami back in 2006. None of the chat groups that I know of had the density or momentum to thrive. Lots of activity moved to whatsapp and telegram groups during the wave of newcomers during covid. Refresh stopped doing in person events as well, so we only restarted that a few months ago after a 2+ year hiatus (events are super time consuming to do well, and hard to make sense financially). CIC space is re-launching soon under new management as CIC moved on from this location. I do miss the early days of the LAB when they were the nexus of all the activity. Sadly I haven't set foot in the LAB in over 4 years.

NickC25 3y ago
What's sad to me is that most of the newcomers don't really engage with people who have been here for a while. Happy to hear Refresh has started doing events again. I miss the intimate events that were under 100 people where you could actually talk to people who were doing something besides crypto. Really miss when LiveNinja's staff would make waffles every week and let locals do presentations about whatever technical or business topics they chose. Sad to hear that CIC moved on from that space - that location was great for both businesses and events....loved their kitchen space and the game room next door (and the hidden listening room!). I have only been here since 2016 but I loved the LAB when I first got here (maybe I'm biased because I'm a Wyncode alum and the classes were out of the LAB). So many events, cool companies, interesting people, etc... but that's all in the past now....Wynwood lost the little amount of soul it still had by the time I moved here. Shit, there's very little community here these days it seems.