What do you like most about working at thinkspace?
It’s easy to get so caught up in the grind that you forget to stop and thank the people around you. In the spirit of Gratitude (our newest company core value), we chose to share the following story. thinkspace participates in a weekly TINYpulse exercise. TINYpulse provides insights into company culture, prompting anonymous responses to […]
Meet Our New Community Host, Gabe!
Help us in welcoming our new community host Gabe Herbert! Get to know Gabe a little better. He is pretty new to the Fremont area, so please suggest some great places for him to explore! What do you do and where can we find out more? Professionally, I’m a web developer, primarily using WordPress. I […]
"Can I have one of everything?" | New Tech Eastside, April 14
“Live from Kirkland… It’s Tuesday Night!” Sit down and let me tell you a tale of a place like no other. Where the beer flows like high speed internet, where the wine flows like beer, and where no two business cards are the same. Sounds like a dream right? Wrong. This is New Tech Eastside […]
How to Deliver a Compelling Pitch for Angel Investment
Last night Rachel Azaroff of Alliance of Angels stopped by our Seattle space to help some of our members prepare for successful angel investing pitches. She pointed out it’s a different animal pitching to an angel investor vs. pitching to a venture capitalist, so it’s important to be prepared. Angel investors aren’t professional investors representing a […]
“What’s a coworking?”: Thoughts from a panelist at StepNW’s Spotlight on Startups for the Eastside
“…Is this thing on?” At StepNW’s event in Bellevue on Tuesday night, I had the opportunity to sit on a panel in the company of fellow coworking representatives from Orange Studios, extraSlice, and Impact Hub. Picture a room full of entrepreneurs, executives looking to find their perfect startup match, community representatives, creatives, and resident experts on […]
Welcome to the Team Kim & Nikki!
This spring has been an exciting time for the thinkspace team, and we are delighted to introduce our most recent additions: Nikki Barron, Marketing Manager and Kim Pua, Member Coordinator. Here is your chance to get to know them a little better! Favorite weekday lunch spot? KIM: Sip Thai Bistro. Everything I’ve had […]
My Mental Time Travel Trip Landed Me in Austin
As an entrepreneur it’s important to be forward thinking. One of my main goals was to do mental time travel for the future of thinkspace. That’s hard to do when you’re constantly working inside the business, knee deep in day-to-day activities, and can’t see the forest for the trees. Get out and travel Nothing opens […]
How Do I Get Started Growth Hacking My Startup?
I recently had the opportunity to attend a General Assembly Seattle presentation on growth hacking tech startups by growth hacking pioneer Nik Badminton. Nik is a self-described “recovering management consultant, ad man” author, futurist and the current Regional Director at Freelancer, the world’s largest freelancing, outsourcing and crowdsourcing marketplace. Freelancer was founded in 2004 and is […]
Re-hiring an Employee That Quit Your Startup
What I’m about to write is NOT going to resonate with the millennial Gen-Y crowd and that’s ok. This post is written for the startup founder, entrepreneur, and small company CEO. This topic is looking through the lens of the person that created the company, started the company with their own money, and pretty much […]
A Roadmap to Develop Leaders With Both Heart & Horsepower
I’ve been running my company for six years and it still feels like a startup. I’ve had bits and parts of a leadership team in the past but it never matured into a leadership team that was able to scale and grow to reach the next level. We’re already in the top 4% of all […]