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What makes coworking work?
For years, startup founders and entrepreneurs across the Silicon Prairie have sought to get out of basements and coffee shops and make the move to professional workspaces. Thus, a startup culture staple – coworking – emerged. Coworking spaces in and nearby the region’s flagship cities of Omaha, Des Moines and Kansas City have been on…
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CAMP Coworking closing after two-year run
“Knowing when to stop is as important as knowing when to start,” Megan Hunt said in a blog post published today. “And it’s the right time for me to bow out.” In that post, Hunt (left), the owner of CAMP Coworking, announced the immediate closure of the coworking space she opened in July 2010 in…
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David Milligan of Advent IP to present Thursday night at Cornstalks
David Milligan, founding partner of Advent IP and co-founder of Leap Ventures, will present at this month’s meeting of Cornstalks, which takes place at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at CAMP Coworking in the the Mastercraft Building (1111 N. 13th St.). More on Milligan, courtesy of the Advent IP website: David is a founding partner of Advent…
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Prairie Moves: Sam Wilken, Local Hero Design, Locusic and more
Published Tuesdays and Thursdays, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if…
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Tools of the Trade: Loosecubes makes it easy to find coworking near you
If you haven’t heard already, the coworking phenomenon is spreading across the country. Right here on Silicon Prairie News we’ve covered CAMP in Omaha, The Foundry in Des Moines, Meso in Sioux Falls and most recently Vault Coworking in Cedar Rapids. It seems if you’re an entrepreneur, why would you work anywhere else? But what…
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CAMP Coworking hosting Extreme Coworking week, August 15-19
If you’re looking to build some action in your workweek, start the p90x weight lifting and mentally prepare yourself for Extreme Coworking at CAMP Coworking next week. Starting on Monday, the collaborative workspace in the Mastercraft building, located at 1111 N 13th St #119, will open its doors from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. everyday…
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Startup Spaces: CAMP Coworking, Omaha’s first coworking space
School’s out, but CAMP is in session. Last week, we ran an update on the progress Omaha’s CAMP Coworking (1111 North 13th St.) experienced in its first year. Today, we want to provide a visual of the collaborative workspace. Megan Hunt, the owner of CAMP, recently said via Twitter, “Someday I want to tell the…
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CAMP Coworking weathers first year with same culture, new strategy
Last year when Megan Hunt signed her name to the lease for CAMP Coworking, it was in her interest to get her money back, and quickly. Within six months of opening the collaborative workspace in the Mastercraft building in North Downtown Omaha, she did. And now as CAMP looks to generate profit and celebrate its…