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noodle, thats awesome. I know people are talking about opening up a Hub affiliate in SF and NYC, so maybe there's an opportunity

noodle 18y ago
only awesome once the ball starts rolling, until then, just idle thoughts :X i originally wanted to start up some coworking space, but evolved it to include the concepts mentioned in the article. edit: also, fwiw, i'm relocating to the atlanta area, which is a place that has potential but is not being correctly tapped (you might recall this article http://blog.jeffhaynie.us/whats-wrong-with-the-atlanta-startup-ecosystem-and-how-to-fix-it.html http://blog.jeffhaynie.us/whats-wrong-with-the-atlanta-start...), which is one of the reasons the thoughts turned towards how to make more than just coworking space happen.
- nlwhittemore 18y ago
  I'm particularly interested in thoughts you have about how you lay Y-Combinator type investment on top of it. What's the right strategy? Having those folks give some development time to nonprofits is just one idea. Another idea would be to actually have promising college-age developers have a year long fellowship where 50% of their time was pro-bono and 50% of their time was working on their own projects.
  - noodle 18y ago
    i will admit to two things -- one is that because of my lack of ability to execute currently, i've not thoroughly thought through things as well as i would like to have done before airing my ideas in public :). and two, you've taken it in a different direction, which i like, but don't have many thoughts on. the concept i was thinking about was not to give any actual cash to any company, but exchange the services of the space for equity. basically, whatever they would need to survive for X months, including (possibly) food and a place to sleep. would allow the company to focus on bootstrapping themselves when they don't have to focus on paying for groceries, and by bootstrapping themselves, they would hopefully become profitable faster without having to worry about obtaining more funding or dying from excessive debt. i'd not thought about the idea of diverting some time to worthy causes, but i do like it and would probably implement it, as it works well with the model on several levels. edit: added a few things
- nlwhittemore 18y ago
  Also, I know of some people in Atlanta who are at least tentatively interested in something like The Hub model..
  - noodle 18y ago
    i know a few as well. perhaps your few and my few and a few others could combine to make enough.
    - nlwhittemore 18y ago
      hmmm interesante - i'll be talking to them on tuesday so we should stay in touch. nathaniel@change.org

noodle 18y ago

only awesome once the ball starts rolling, until then, just idle thoughts :X i originally wanted to start up some coworking space, but evolved it to include the concepts mentioned in the article. edit: also, fwiw, i'm relocating to the atlanta area, which is a place that has potential but is not being correctly tapped (you might recall this article http://blog.jeffhaynie.us/whats-wrong-with-the-atlanta-startup-ecosystem-and-how-to-fix-it.html http://blog.jeffhaynie.us/whats-wrong-with-the-atlanta-start...), which is one of the reasons the thoughts turned towards how to make more than just coworking space happen.

nlwhittemore 18y ago
I'm particularly interested in thoughts you have about how you lay Y-Combinator type investment on top of it. What's the right strategy? Having those folks give some development time to nonprofits is just one idea. Another idea would be to actually have promising college-age developers have a year long fellowship where 50% of their time was pro-bono and 50% of their time was working on their own projects.
- noodle 18y ago
  i will admit to two things -- one is that because of my lack of ability to execute currently, i've not thoroughly thought through things as well as i would like to have done before airing my ideas in public :). and two, you've taken it in a different direction, which i like, but don't have many thoughts on. the concept i was thinking about was not to give any actual cash to any company, but exchange the services of the space for equity. basically, whatever they would need to survive for X months, including (possibly) food and a place to sleep. would allow the company to focus on bootstrapping themselves when they don't have to focus on paying for groceries, and by bootstrapping themselves, they would hopefully become profitable faster without having to worry about obtaining more funding or dying from excessive debt. i'd not thought about the idea of diverting some time to worthy causes, but i do like it and would probably implement it, as it works well with the model on several levels. edit: added a few things
nlwhittemore 18y ago
Also, I know of some people in Atlanta who are at least tentatively interested in something like The Hub model..
- noodle 18y ago
  i know a few as well. perhaps your few and my few and a few others could combine to make enough.
  - nlwhittemore 18y ago
    hmmm interesante - i'll be talking to them on tuesday so we should stay in touch. nathaniel@change.org