Well said, Alex. Chad Ballantyne 705.812.0689 [email protected]
Barrie's Coworking Community Perfect for small businesses, startups and entrepreneurs. 12 Dunlop St E, Barrie Ontario, L4M 1A3 Memberships start at $25/mth www.thecreativespace.ca 705-812-0689 On 2013-10-09, at 2:54 PM, Alex Hillman <[email protected]> wrote: > No surprises to anyone who frequents the list, I'm a very big proponent of > bootstrapping. > > I ran a conference on bootstrapping here in Philadelphia with one of my > longtime friends and community members: > > http://baconbiz.com (videos are free!) > > Yesterday, I got to sit on a panel at the International Economic Development > Corporations conference in Philadelphia. I was the only person representing > the bootstrapping mentality, and shared a lot of the perspective that we've > been acting on while growing Indy Hall (written here > http://dangerouslyawesome.com/2010/12/on-economic-development-centers-and-coworking/). > > To re-emphasize and agree with the key points that I'm reading here, one of > the other panelists who represented one of the longest running regional EDCs > (who I'm friendly with on a personal level, by the way), said > > "Economic development used to be punctuated with a ribbon cutting for a > company that would bring 100+ jobs. It just doesn't happen that way anymore, > and it hasn't in a while." > > I think where coworking fits into the equation here is that we're helping > create jobs in a different way than has been historically counted: we're > helping people create and maintain jobs for themselves. > > Whenever someone asks me how many jobs Indy Hall has created, I tell them > > "I don't know exactly, but I do know that there are 250+ people here that > made money last month...they're making money this month...and they're very > likely to be still making money next month. I think that's more than you can > say about the job security of many "created" jobs." > > I tend to get a lot of somber nods from the EDC folks when they hear that out > loud. > > -Alex > > > > > -- > > /ah > indyhall.org > coworking in philadelphia > > > On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Kevin Koym <[email protected]> wrote: > Brydon > My company Tech Ranch (that we bootstrapped up ourselves to a 10k sq food > facility) has programs that are focused on helping entrepreneurs (many that > bootstrap their ventures) off the ground. We have a program called Venture > Forth that helps at this stage. As well, as one of the leaders of Bootstrap > Austin we built a substrate of bootstrappers helping bootstrappers. My work > in Tech Ranch has been to develop this model- further. > > I am working on a book about the model, and have replicated parts of it in > Chile, as well as are talking with a couple of other locations about > partnering with them using our programs. I studied 36 models of entrepreneur > support in building our model- and am personally passionate about helping as > many entrepreneurs get their businesses off the ground as possible. > > Although its early for a lot of conversations (we're really building the > infrastructure for growing this) I wanted to respond to your email and let > you know of pointers to some of the work that we've done- I do believe that > traditional economic development thought misses the massive opportunity for > helping early stage entrepreneurs- especially bootstrappers- that are not as > flashy / well funded but a very important part of the entrepreneurial > ecosystem. > > I hope this helps- just now really getting onto the Coworking google group, > and thought I'd weigh in on this topic. > Thanks, > Kevin > > > On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Brydon Gilliss <[email protected]> > wrote: > I wrote a blog post yesterday about the concept of economic development > supporting the sweat-it-out bootstrapper. I figured I'd share it here in case > others know of real programs out there already doing variations of this? > > thanks, > > -- > Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > -- > Kevin Koym > [email protected] > @kkoym > > http://techranchaustin.com > Accelerating Entrepreneur Success > > -- > Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. 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