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2nd Annual BarCamp a Big Win for Tampa Bay
This past weekend Tampa’s tech community gathered for the annual unconference known as BarCamp. Not your typical convention or seminar, BarCamp’s are organized and hosted by volunteers and feature presentations given entirely by the attendees. Easel-sized Post-It notes act as the just-in-time agenda and in the first 30 minutes are quickly filled in with topics [...]
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New Coworking Video from BlankSpaces in LA
The folks at BLANKSPACES have done it again. A simple yet elegant commercial explaining the power of Coworking. Fill in the BLANK from BLANKSPACES on Vimeo. You guys rock! Want the coworking experience in Tampa? Join us at IdeaField for the creative, collaborative workspace that helps you get shit done.
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IdeaField Coworking & StartupMonkey
Our friends and supporters @Ad2 Tampa Bay and Tampa Digital invited the co-founders of IdeaField – Tampa’s first official Coworking destination to take part in their weekly AdCast Web program. If you haven’t checked out our facility in Tampa Heights yet, then make plans to join us for FreeFridays and see why Coworking is taking off [...]
Marketing Rule #1 – Don’t Suck!
As part of my on-going rant on why public policy matters to emerging companies, I like to point to various surveys and informal studies that measure the more qualitative factors such as how quality of life impacts the individuals that are the force responsible for the sustainable economic gain. I’m not referring to the manufactured [...]
Putting Tampa Bay to (co)Work
IdeaField Coworking hosted a Jelly MeetUp this past week and we want to thank everyone who came out to support us in this, our first community event. Throughout the day, we were joined by a wide range of organizations and individuals including solo freelancers, small startups, local economic development and even one individual from a [...]
Stimulate Me
Why do I write about local politics and economic stimulus on a startup blog? As I see it, traditional economic development efforts and local “job creation” programs ignore and in many cases actually discourage startup activity. While almost all mid-sized metros boast about their readiness to be the next big American tech or life science [...]