i/o ventures is a new startup accelerator in San Francisco, dedicated to helping entrepreneurs launch a product and build a company in four months. They will invest $25,000, take an 8 percent share of the common stock of the startup, provide office space and assistance. To find out more and apply, go to: http://www.ventures.io/info/about. One of [...]
Continue reading...3 November 2008
Last July, A List Apart asked its readers for tips on how to work from home effectively. How do people balance work and family when the family lives in the “home office”? How do people maintain their energy and attention? How do they keep in touch with colleagues in other offices or, if they run [...]
Continue reading...1 November 2008
The Global Cities Index, released this month, ranks the world’s top cities by business activity, human capital, information exchange, political engagement, and cultural experience. 1. New York 2. London 3. Paris 4. Tokyo 5. Hongkong 6. Los Angeles, 7. Singapore 8. Chicago 9. Seoul 10. Toronto
Continue reading...22 February 2008
Years after the publication of Dan Pink’s Free Agent Nation, we are finally seeing better arrangements for people who don’t necessarily want to work out of their home all the time, but who can’t afford to rent a full office for themselves. Co-working is a fancy term for sharing an office with several people who work [...]
Continue reading...25 January 2008
Famous Dutch designer Marcel Wanders has been hired to do the interiors of a new creative class hangout in Amsterdam, which will be in the former public library on the Prinsengracht. The building will house a cafe, ateliers, work spaces, museum and design hotel. In the past few years, the city has realized that there’s a [...]
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8 January 2010
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