coWORKing Coffee Talk: How to get to where you are- Jan 14th 2014
What’s your story? How did you end up here, at this moment in time, doing what you’re doing right now? Coffee time turned to story time this week and our interest was piqued as we heard tale after tale. It’s fascinating to look back on your life and imagine the moments that led you down […]
Lunchtime Lesson: Book Publishing Now- Fri Jan 31st 2014
In this session, Chris Gruener will describe the current trends and landscape of the book publishing industry, covering both traditional and self-publishing (and everything in between, including the growing popularity of the “hybrid” publishing model). He’ll discuss all of the different facets of publishing including: writing, development and editing book design and layout production and printing […]
coWORKing Coffee Talk: The Year of the Profit – Jan 7th 2014
As you’d expect, we have a lot of startups at WORK. To kick off the New Year one coWORKer’s company has declared 2014 ‘The Year of the Profit’! The crowded table of eager entrepreneurs enthusiastically cheered this idea. Woohoo! We’ll all jump on that bandwagon! Self-funded family companies, lone rangers setting out to create their […]
Lunchtime Lesson: BETTER PHOTOS FOR YOUR BUSINESS WITH THE CAMERA YOU HAVE- Fri Jan 17th 2014
In this session, commercial photographer Tyler Chartier will teach you how to make better use of the equipment you already own to create photos that tell the story of your business in a more compelling way. Tyler will share his knowledge about the essential elements of creating compelling photographs: Composition and storytelling Visual mass and […]
Lunchtime Lesson: Tax Prep Q&A- Fri Jan 10th 2014
It’s that time of year again! Don’t procrastinate. Get a head start on your tax prep and feel good about making progress. Have questions or concerns? Bring them with you. Lynn Knudson, EA will give you advice on bookkeeping, taxes, 1099s and more. Lynn got rave reviews for her last Lunchtime Lesson so we are excited to have her back. “Extremely […]
coWORKing Coffee Talk: Two things needed to succeed – Dec 17th 2013
To succeed you need two things: to start, and to finish. Right? coWORKer Julie Peteren is our resident writer/researcher specializing in education. She just finished a soon-to-be-published article about education startups that have made big bucks, which led us into a discussion about the increasingly popular — but not yet profitable –MOOCs (massive open online course: […]
coWORKing Coffee Talk: Sticky Situations – Dec 10th 2013
What happens when ‘success’ brings unintended consequences? You might just find yourself in a sticky situation. Most of life exists in varying shades of grey, but it is so much easier to plan for black and white. If this, then that. Make the rules and stick to them. My ‘bring’ to the table this week was […]
coWORKing Coffee Talk: Hold the sugar, pass the Salt? Dec 3rd 2013
Huh? What are you doing Jeffrey!? Is that salt you just added to your coffee? Well, that’s one way to start a conversation. Having overheard that salt will take away the bitterness, he just had to experiment…and it worked!…which prompted all sorts of hypotheses. We have a lot of science lovers here at WORK and […]
coWORKing Coffee Talk: Data vs Knowledge – Nov 26th 2013
Data. BIG DATA. We live in an age of ever increasing data. What can be done with it is fascinating, powerful, and sometimes scary. We use Google to predict flu trends, Twitter to track moods and stocks, and 23andMe to reveal the genetic secrets hidden in our DNA. At coffee one morning, coWORKer Chris tells […]
coWORKing Coffee Talk: The Concept of Retirement – Nov 19th 2013
“Coffee social is the best conversation of my week.” Seriously, several people have told me this. And I feel the same way. Yesterday was no exception… What’s the best way to use your brain at 20? How about 60? As we age we gain wisdom, but in a world of rapidly advancing technology we also […]
