Note to Self… Bangkok, On the Luck of Seven, In Good Company, Seed, and Swag

March 3, 2008

John Berns put together a BarCamp in Bangkok. Now he's musing on a coworking space or a Jelly in Bangkok. His post captures the vision and the spirit of coworking with an honest candor that makes me recall my first introduction to the idea. I sent him an e-mail in hope of watching this [...]

Metro 3 - props to http://www.sxc.hu/profile/Thoursie for the image

John Berns put together a BarCamp in Bangkok. Now he's musing on a coworking space or a Jelly in Bangkok. His post captures the vision and the spirit of coworking with an honest candor that makes me recall my first introduction to the idea. I sent him an e-mail in hope of watching this unfold. We'll see what happens.

Working my way through the story in On the Luck of Seven, "an open-source journey around the world documenting free culture, social innovators & global change." Coworking is a big part of this story.

Am I the only one who missed this? In Good Company is a community workspace for women entrepreneurs. It's a combination learning-space, co-working space, and business incubator. It opened in Manhattan last October (2007). I was just in Manhattan...!

Since day 1, I've been interested in the intersection of coworking and seed incubation (as exemplified by Y Combinator and Seedcamp)—it's all about innovation, really. Companies like Conjunctured take a stab at new models on the services side (although there's nothing that limits them to services), while companies like Ooga Labs do interesting things on the products side. They're "...developing 4-6 consumer Internet businesses simultaneously...". Makes me want to stay in bed...

Not an Employee says what I want to say better than I say it. They will be at SXSW. We will be at SXSW. I will be in touch before SXSW, guys/gals. We're coming with swag too. Maybe we can exchange swag...

- Bandit

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2 Comments on “Note to Self… Bangkok, On the Luck of Seven, In Good Company, Seed, and Swag”

  1. Julie Gomoll · on March 3rd, 2008 at 10:53 am · link

    Ok, let's settle this. Is it swag? shwag? schwag?

  2. Bandit · on March 3rd, 2008 at 1:56 pm · link

    I'm calling it "loot" from now on...

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