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Google Chairman visits CoCo

dball — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 19:58:40 +0000

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Google Chairman Eric Schmidt paid us a visit on Nov. 30. We gave him a tour and he then held a round table discussion with three small business owners (plus Don and Kyle). Afterwards, he held a quick press conference, at which he praised the Mayor and the city for its tangible support of projects like CoCo.

During his visit, Mr. Schmidt met the Naiku crew, Dave Allen and Toby Cryns, Matt Woesthoff of The Foundation and Jason Burnett and Chuck Olsen of The Uptake.

Check out the resulting media coverage (or see the page CoCo member Joseph Rueter put together using his cool megablogging platform Rifr!):

USA Today: “Minneapolis as a tech center? Start-ups say yes”
WCCO TV: “Local Business Owners Meet with Google’s Eric Schmidt”
KSTP TV: “Google Chairman Brings Encouragement, but No Jobs to MN”
KARE 11: “Google boss stops in Minnesota”
Minnesota Public Radio: “In Mpls., Google boss reiterates free services and slams online piracy bills”
Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journals: “Google Chairman Schmidt lauds Minneapolis entrepreneurship”
Downtown Journal: “Rybak hosts roundtable with Google chairman at CoCo Minneapolis”
Finance & Commerce: “Key to growth? Google exec says it’s Google”

Indianapolis comes to Minneapolis

dball — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 04:11:03 +0000

12 Stars Media, an Indianapolis-based media production company, paid us a visit recently. Host Teke O’Reilly had stopped by on his day off with no intention of conducting an interview. But when pressed into duty, he pulled it off brilliantly! Watch the video to see Teke in action.

WCCO covers coworking

dball — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 02:39:03 +0000

WCCO reporter Natalie Kane visited CoCo Minneapolis in October and produced a splendid piece about coworking at CoCo. She interviewed some of our members, including Valerie Wilcox-Esqueda and Shawn Wickam. Click through for the full article and video.

Strib readers, welcome to CoCo!

dball — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:56:30 +0000

If you read about us in the Star Tribune, you might be asking: how does this crazy thing called coworking actually work?

Here’s a quick bit of orientation:

We offer multiple plans for people who want to visit a lot…or just a little. See our offerings.
We’re in Lowertown St. Paul.* See our map/directions page
Our hours are M-F, 9-5. You’re free to visit anytime to check us out. No appointment necessary.
We are coming to Minneapolis. Hope to open the doors on a cool, centrally located space by Jan. 1.

*Minneapolitans: St. Paul is that other city you sometimes drive past on your way to/from the Dells.

Oh, and we should mention that Molly Young and Glen Stubbe did a bang-up job with this article. Thanks!

Local biz pub covers CoCo

dball — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:00:56 +0000

Frank Jossi of Finance & Commerce came out to visit CoCo a few weeks ago. Last week he published a really nice piece on CoCo and coworking in general. The article features interviews with c0-founder Kyle Coolbroth and members Ted Davis and Matt Lee and also mentions residents Comfy Chair Consulting.

Read “Working together, separately” at Finance and Commerce

Radio CoCo

dball — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:38:04 +0000

At times it felt like Radio Ga Ga, as Kyle and I figured out how to work the microphones at last week’s appearance on Pamela Muldoon’s Next Stage Business Radio Show. But Pamela, being the professional she is, made it easy peasy for us to talk about how the CoCo idea came about and what we hope to see the space become in the coming months.

Listen (The CoCo discussion begins a third of the way into the stream)

Coworking getting mucho coverage in the biz press!

dball — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:44:38 +0000

In case you haven’t noticed, the mainstream business press is definitely paying attention to coworking. Here are some recent articles:

Inc. magazine: “Co-Working Spaces Grow in Popularity”

WSJ: “How to Succeed in the Age of Going Solo”

WSJ: “Office (and Beanbag) Sharing Among Strangers”

NPR: “Co-Working Offers Community To Solo Workers”

And as long as we’re at it, here are some MSM articles on coworking from the not-to0-distant past:

NYT: “They’re Working On Their Own, Just Side By Side”

NYT: “Losing the Income, and the Camaraderie”

WCCO shines a spotlight on coworking

dball — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:06:22 +0000

What a day! WCCO decided in their morning editorial meeting to do a piece on coworking. By 11 a.m., they were out at CoCo shooting B-roll footage and talking to our members. Then they were off to shoot some more at The 3rd Place. By 5 p.m. the piece was on the air. Now that’s what you call fast and nimble.

Finally, thanks to WCCO producer Gregg Litman for treating us with kid gloves and writing a rock solid script!

Watch “Co-Working: The Changing Workplace”

CoCo hits the airwaves

dball — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:27:33 +0000

The CoCo story (all 4 weeks of it, anyway), will be told for the amusement of all next Saturday, when founders Kyle Coolbroth and Don Ball make a guest appearance on Pamela Muldoon’s Next Stage Business Radio Show.

The show will be aired on Business 1570 (AM), from 1 to 3 p.m. The CoCo segment airs at 2-ish. For all of you time-shifters, the show will be posted online afterwards.

Biz journal: “‘Co-working’ offices give entrepreneurs place to collaborate”

dball — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 05:54:42 +0000

Hey, dig this article on coworking in the latest Biz Journal. The reporter, Katherine Grayson interviewed Kyle Coolbroth of CoCo and Zack Steven of The 3rd Place. Note the huggy huggy quote. Geesh.