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Coworking Open House @TampaBayWaVE

To celebrate the grand opening of Coworking at Tampa Bay WaVE, they are hosting our first Open House and FREE coworking day at our space. This is a great chance to come out and see what they are all about.

Come work alongside the folks at WaVE, and some of the best and brightest tech entrepreneurs around. Share and share alike! They’ve got an upbeat, productive environment for freelancers and techies to flourish and ultimately build a bigger, better Tampa Tech community.

Details:
Friday Feb 24th 9:00 – 5:00
401 S. Florida Ave, 2nd Floor
Tampa, Fl 33602  - Map

If you have never been here before:

  • They are located in the Gulf Shore Bank building.
  • Park in the gravel lot on the corner of Channelside Dr & S. Florida Ave.
  • Keep this phone number handy for directions, access to the space or general inquiries. 866-WAVE-066

The Open House will include office hours with the following folks who are regular supporters of WaVE and who have generously provided their time to help answer your start-up questions.

Startup Development Issues / Q&A (12 – END OF DAY)
The CEO, Ricardo Lasa, and his team of developers will be here to answer any questions you have about

Startup Investment Issues by Morrow Consultants (11 – 2)
Founder of Gazelle Lab & President of Morrow Consultants, John Morrow will be here answering questions on What Investors Want.

Startup Legal Q&A w/ Foley & Lardner (Hours T.B.A.)
Curt Creely, partner at Foley & Larder will be here to answer legal questions for your startup

Weekly Tech Rant by Startup Monkey (1 – 3)
Join Ken Evans for a discussion on building a tech ecosystem & other economic development challenges

Web & Graphic Design Q&A

Aris MacInnes will be here to answer questions on design.

WordPress Q&A

Alison Foxall, WordPress expert will help answer your questions on blogging with WP.

Commercial Real Estate Meets #Coworking

Thanks to Eric Odum of Net Lease Commercial RE for inviting me to join his monthly podcast to talk about the growth of tech start-ups and the impact on commercial real estate. Three years ago when we met, Coworking was not even on the radar for CRE & economic development. Now that small (& virtual) is the new big, government officials and business leaders are trying to understand what has happened to their traditional market for office space and how should they react. With most of economic development’s efforts focused on development and not economics, this has put a real crimp in many regions’ strategy for growth. Shovel-ready has been replaced by bandwidth and workforce-ready leaving many areas that are dependent on new construction wondering how they are going to recover from the current economic downturn.

In this video we talk about Coworking as an ideal option for start-ups that needs office space, but we also discuss how the trend toward smaller offices and a distributed workforce started back in the early ’90′s.

Be Brief then Be Gone: Ignite Tampa


Ignite Tampa Bay is an information exchange for fostering and inspiring Tampa’s creative community. In one evening, you hear 10 passionate speakers from our arts, technical, health, education, business communities talk about their current projects or favorite ideas for just five minutes.

Presentations will educate and inspire you, and maybe make you laugh in the process. The presenters will be limited to 20 slides and 5 minutes. Not a second more. The presenters need to get to the point quickly and make it exciting and engaging. We welcome topics about anything that other people will find interesting.

Details:

Thursday, January 19th 6PM @ The Glazer Children’s Museum 

Have you purchased your IGNITE ticket yet? Enter discount code: iluvignite10 for $10 off ticket price.

Get them here: http://ignitetampa-jan2012.eventbrite.com/

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