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Improvisation: Collaboration, Structure, and Social Media

December 3rd, 2007 · 4 Comments

Improvisation doesn’t just mean “making sh*t up” it means adding to the structure (conversation) and responding to others (listening).
What is the relationship between structure and improvised collaboration? How do we make music together — without coordinated notes on paper — and still make sense?
The quote above came from Forrester researcher and social media consultant Jeremiah [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Leadership · Real Users · Web-trends · cafeBricolage

Talk coworking with Tara Hunt

November 2nd, 2007 ·

A quick note to you New York readers:
Tomorrow (Saturday), come to Gramstand at 10am to talk coworking with Tara Hunt, one of the lead organizers of the coworking movement.
Gramstand is at 13th and Ave A in the East Village.
I hope to see some of you there.
10am!

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Tags: New York City · cafeBricolage

Something to sign up for

October 10th, 2007 ·

I really liked this part of Charlie’s testimony to the New York City Council:
My final bit of support for what ITAC has recommended has to do with real physical infrastructure. Over the years, those involved in technology innovation in small companies and startups have always made due with whatever physical places we could find [...]

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Tags: Business · New York City · Web Startup · cafeBricolage

Help Reinvent CooperBricolage!

September 27th, 2007 ·

Folks, this is a re-post from what I wrote and had Tony put up on the CooperBricolage Blog. Check it out.
Dear CooBric-ers,
Gosh, do we have some news for you!
The current home of CooperBricolage, Cafe Fuego, is about to begin a massive renovation of its restaurant on St. Marks Place in early October. New name, new [...]

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Tags: New York City · Web Startup · cafeBricolage · nextNY

CooperBricolage Grand Opening Party: 9/5 - 4pm

August 29th, 2007 ·

Come to the CooperBricolage Grand Opening Party
Wednesday, Septermber 5th, 4pm
CooperBricolage — 9 St. Marks Place
Expected and invited guests are:
* Venture Capitalists from NYC
* Angel Investors from NYC and the Tri-State Area
* Entrepreneurs like you
* Designers, developers and interactive people looking to build the community
Here’s the full invite from Sanford:
All -
I (and the CooBric team) wanted [...]

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Tags: Web Startup · cafeBricolage · nextNY

cooperBricolage opens next week — come support NYC tech culture

July 19th, 2007 ·

Are you a solo entreprenuer, freelancer, or member of a small team? If so, what are you doing next week?
… heading to cooperBricolage, I hope.
Sanford is throwing open the doors to cooperBricolage early next week, and it would be great to see you there.
What’s cooperBricolage? Well, you’ve heard me talk about cafeBricolage a whole lot, [...]

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Tags: Web Startup · cafeBricolage · nextNY

Incubator, HotPlate, or Digital District?

May 8th, 2007 ·

There’s a lot going on in the incubator space, and Darren catches up with it in this post. In the comments section of his post, I observe/question:“I have an increasing fear that incubators are not sustainable, which is why I really like the “hot-plate” model, of providing the underlying economic efficiencies to groups and [...]

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Tags: Investing · Web Startup · cafeBricolage

on the new co-Darren-working space…

April 6th, 2007 ·

About to hop on a flight to Cincinnati to meet with the most important clients: my family.
I wanted to point my few loyal readers to a post I put up today on the cafeBricoalge blog where I write about Darren Herman’s new coworking space and how it relates to the cafeBricolage project.
Have a great weekend!

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cafeBricolage Gets a Blog and a Wiki

March 21st, 2007 · 2 Comments

As things move forward with the planning of cafeBricolage, we’ve decided to move the conversation off my blog and on to an independent blog and wiki.
The blog will be used for announcements and opinion pieces, like an ordinary blog, and the wiki will be used for organizing.
Right now, our main focus with the wiki [...]

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Tags: cafeBricolage · nextNY

VentBox Re-Launch

March 18th, 2007 ·

The time is almost here!
We are working around the clock to get the next version of VentBox out to you. While our official re-launch is scheduled for 6pm on Tuesday — we’ll be presenting VentBox to the NY Web 2.0 Social Networking Tech Meetup — but we’ll likely get it live earlier in the day [...]

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Tags: Business · VentBox · cafeBricolage