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A Land Without Loosecubes As a Loosecubes engineer, I am permitted encouraged to pack up my MacBook Air and relocate anywhere a Loosecube can be found. I’ve been studying Russian for almost 2 years, and when I thought about where in the world I might want to spend a few days working remotely, Moscow was my first choice. Loosecubes has locations in 71 countries, so I had lots of exotic...

Feb 24th

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5 Tech Tools for Staying Productive Wherever You Work Guest Post by Ivan Drucker and Caroline Green of IvanExpert Technology has made it easy to work from anywhere, whether you’re traveling to a faraway city, renting an office part-time, or sitting at the kitchen table at home. A little preparation can make the difference between wasting time and getting things done. Here are 5 ways...

Jan 17th

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Celebrating Worldwide #JELLYWEEK 2012

January 16-22nd marks the first ever Worldwide #JELLYWEEK, during which coworkers everywhere will come together in their own communities to collaborate, network, and celebrate the inspiration born through the magic of working together. We’re excited to represent the event in North America, and will be hosting a Meetup at our HQ on Monday for anyone who’s interested in...

Jan 14th

Happy Holidays from Loosecubes From all of us at Loosecubes, thank you so much for making this past year an incredible one. While we’re usually big advocates of productivity, we hope you enjoy a relaxing, work-free holiday season. Cheers! Campbell & the Loosecubes Team

Dec 23rd

My Life Without Loosecubes Part 5: The Refrigerated Conclusion For my final destination on my tour of popular, public wifi hotspots, I chose to check out the often imitated, never duplicated Think Coffee. I had heard a lot about their flagship 248 Mercer location, so I thought it was worth giving it a shot. When I walked in, I immediately fell in love with the aesthetics of the place....

Dec 21st

My Life Without Loosecubes Part 4: No Pictures Allowed At the end of last week, I decided it was time to try working out of a coffee shop close to my apartment in Cobble Hill. I didn’t want to waste any time searching for one, so I just went straight to the Starbucks around the corner. It seemed like everyone in my neighborhood had the same idea, and the place was slammed. Not an empty...

Dec 12th

My Life Without Loosecubes Part 3: I’m a Cheater What can I say? I couldn’t resist the urge to work out of one of our Loosecubes locations after all. In my defense, I had booked Porter Contemporary for the day well before I found out I was going to be on the road all week. I thought it would be best to keep my original reservation, so that I could have a fresh perspective on the...

Dec 9th

My Life Without Loosecubes Part 2: Can You Talk Louder? For my second office-less day in the Big Apple, I decided to head to the famous 5th Avenue branch of the New York Public Library. I’m still fairly new to NYC (10 months), so I thought this would be a great chance for me to check out a city landmark and, at the same time, get some serious work done. Upon arrival, I navigated my way...

Dec 8th

My Life Without Loosecubes Part 1: Ace in the Hole On Monday afternoon, I was presented with a challenge: ‘This week, you’re not allowed to come into the office, you can’t use Loosecubes, and you can’t work from home.’ For a moment, I felt lost. How was I going to effectively get my work done this week? What about phone calls and meetings I had previously...

Dec 7th

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The Best of Both Worlds - Making Business and...

Sara Bacon, Founder of Greenpoint Coworking (GPCW), had been working at home for 7 years before she decided it was time to do something about her isolation. As the founder of her own design firm, she identified with the coworking community’s values and philosophies, and decided to marry the two by creating both a coworking space and new home for her business. I had the pleasure of coworking at...

Dec 1st

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Feature Updates: Better Reviews, Regulars, and Comments We’ve cooked up some exciting new community features just in time for Thanksgiving. Here’s the latest and greatest from the Loosecubes HQ! Regulars and Who’s Worked Here - Natural light is nice, but if you’re like us, you know it’s the people that make a workspace awesome. Now it’s easier to see who...

Nov 22nd

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Coworkin' at Bizperc!

Last week I traveled to Kansas City, my hometown, to visit my family. While I was in the “City of Fountains” I had the opportunity to cowork for a day at Bizperc. Kansas City has a few great coworking spaces on Loosecubes to choose from. Although my decision was tough, Bizperc outweighed others with its thorough solution to coworking. Not only do they have a huge space to offer...

Oct 18th

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Bridge Closure Opens Doors to Coworking?

[Photo courtesy of brokensidewalk.com] Recently we caught wind of an infrastructure setback that’s affecting tens of thousands of commuters in the midwest. The Sherman Minton Bridge, a main thoroughfare for commuters between southern Indiana and northern Kentucky, was recently closed due to cracks found in it’s structure. The impact? For the next 6+ months, professionals who work...

Oct 14th

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Feature Updates: New Homepage and More We’ve released some great new features at Loosecubes that we wanted to share with you. New Homepage: Our spiffy new homepage showcases the top Loosecubes in NYC, SF, and Europe (seen above). Check out the featured members, too. Want to be in the spotlight? Visit our Facebook page and tell us why! Better Social Integration: Sign into Loosecubes...

Sep 30th

New, Simple Transaction Fee

We believe in making it easy for our members to book and pay for a great place to work. We think it should be a cinch for hosts, too. Effective Friday, September 23rd, hosts will pay a 10% fee per Loosecube reservation, no matter the price of the workspace. Our fees are taken out of each transaction as they occur, so there aren’t any surprises down the road. The fee will allow us to keep...

Sep 21st

My Office is My Suitcase

Last week, I had the incredible opportunity to pick up my MacBook, stuff my belongings into a suitcase, and move my office to the beautiful historic city of Prague. For one week, my view was the picturesque cobbled streets of Bohemia instead of that electrical generating station on the East River. I still accomplished everything I needed to for work, while making friends across the globe and...

Sep 19th

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Back to Work! Our Tips for Fall Productivity

With the dog days of summer behind us, it’s time to get back to work. Here are a few quick tips to help you jumpstart your productivity this autumn: Set goals - Getting back into the swing of things can be tough, and sometimes it’s hard to know where to start. Set a few specific, realistic, and measurable goals this week to ensure a successful fall. Get inspired by Behance Editor-in-Chief J.K....

Sep 13th

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New York 3.0 Featuring Loosecubes Our friends from Arte.tv recently compiled a bunch of short films about innovation in New York City, and we were lucky enough to be a part of it. Click through to watch the video above, and check out all the other great companies, events, and visionaries that are continuing to keep the Big Apple on the cutting edge.

Sep 6th

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Featured Loosecube: SoundPipe HQ - New York, NY You can share space for free in this amazingly bright, Flatiron office in exchange for providing the SoundPipe team with some feedback on their soon to be released product. The space is great for individuals working on various freelance projects and even for a startup interested in a place to have strategy meetings. Who knows? Maybe your helpful...

Aug 17th

A Tool for Tapping Expertise Efficiently Superpowered is an e-mail based product that helps you tap the expertise, knowledge, and resources of a given group or company’s members. It’s like an e-mail based version of Quora for the enterprise. Several coworking and incubator spaces including, Coloft, General Assembly, Dogpatch Labs, and WeWork Labs are already using it to help their...

Aug 16th

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Loosetalk Joop de Boer Writer of The Pop-Up City and Partner at Golfstromen Amsterdam, NL What led you to start The Pop-Up City? The Pop-Up City started in April 2008 as a project by Golfstromen, an urban concept office by me and Jeroen Beekmans. At the Pop-Up City we want to explore new concepts, strategies, and methods for a dynamic and flexible interpretation of contemporary urban life....

Aug 15th

Feature Update: Host Response Rate Now, while viewing a space’s profile page, you can see the host’s response rate for reservation requests. This will give you an idea of how reliable the host is based on past requests that have come through the system. We’re hoping this will really improve the user experience by setting expectations before requests are even made. Just...

Aug 11th

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Help make the world a better [work]place: We’re Hiring! Are you passionate about shaping the future of work? We’re looking for some awesome, self-motivated people to add to our lean team of 5 in order to help us take Loosecubes to the next level…and by next level we mean world domination. Click on the positions we have available below to find out more. If you’re...

Aug 10th

Happy International Coworking Day Central in London Today marks the 6th birthday of coworking! Crazy, right? Whether you’re new to the concept or a seasoned veteran, today is a great day to get out and experience collaboration in the workplace at its finest. Find a loosecube near you to celebrate because like our friends from NextSpace always say, “Working alone sucks!”

Aug 9th

Feature Updates: Map View, Social Context in Search, and E-mail Replies We heard your call for a map view of the search results loud and clear, and we’re happy to say that it’s live today! Now, while on the search page, you can click ‘Map View’ at the top right of the screen in order to bring up a much larger map of Loosecubes locations for you to peruse at your leisure....

Aug 4th

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Loosetalk Photo credit: Meagan Cignoli Amber Lee and Hannah Kreiswirth Founders of Join Bklyn Brooklyn, NY What exactly is Join Bklyn? Join Bklyn is a curated site showcasing awesome art, fashion, photography, music, design, food, and life. Who are your curators and how did they become savvy, cultural collectors? We can only imagine that our very talented curators have been culturally savvy...

Aug 3rd

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The Best Summer I Ever Had For the past two months I’ve been an intern for Loosecubes, and I can’t believe it’s time for me to leave New York to prepare for my senior year at UNC. Before the summer started, I had a tough choice between interning for a huge advertising agency and a startup in Brooklyn with a full-time staff of 5. With my internship at Loosecubes at the close,...

Jul 29th

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Loosecubers of the Day Jimmy Goldblum and Adam Weber What are you currently working on other than perfecting your low five? We’re editing part of our documentary called Tomorrow We Disappear. It’s about a tinsel slum in west Delhi known as the Kathputli Colony that’s been home to the city’s magicians, acrobats, and puppeteers since the 1970s, and how India’s...

Jul 27th

The Client Scorecard New Tool Lets Freelancers Rate Clients and Companies Our friends at the Freelancers Union recently created the Client Scorecard that allows independent workers to rate companies (good and bad) as well as check out potential clients before accepting a gig. It’s a great way for freelancers to share their experiences with the community and hopefully prevent problems...

Jul 26th

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Featured Loosecubes Host: Christian Villum of Platform4 What got you into coworking? We wanted to create an environment filled with learning, inspiration, knowledge/technology sharing, and social interaction. At Platform4 we try to do that by making our space available to anyone who wishes to participate and experiment.

Jul 21st

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Loosetalk Mark Phillip Founder and CEO of Are You Watching This?! Austin, TX What exactly is Are You Watching This?! (RUWT)? At Are You Watching This?! we monitor tens of thousands of games every year, looking for instant classics in the making. When we find one, we alert fans with the exact channel number to turn to in order to catch the finish. The core of the site is RUWTbot, our...

Jul 18th

Loosecubes Just Got Snazzier Facebook and Payments and a New Design…Oh my! We’ve been really busy for the past couple of months making huge improvements to the overall Loosecubes experience, and we’re excited to finally be able to share it with you! What began as a simple update to the look and feel of our site, turned into a full-on redesign. We’ve integrated a lot of...

Jul 7th

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Loosecubers of the Day AJ Leon and Melissa Leon What are you currently working on? The LaC Project, Misfit, Inc., and being awesome.

Jul 5th

Featured Loosecube: SocietyM When we first laid eyes on this coworking haven, we spent at least 15 minutes on Kayak searching for cheap flights to Scotland. Who doesn’t want to hang in a designer lounge and enjoy a croissant, right? So what are you waiting for? Take a workation to Glasgow and work out of this business club that feels exclusive but welcomes all. Like what you see? Make a...

Jun 28th

Freelance at a Glance Socialcast does it again with another great infographic about the future of work. This time it’s about what it means to be a freelancer and how they’re rapidly becoming the new face of the global workforce.

Jun 24th

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Loosecuber of the Day Joseph Caserto What are you currently working on? I’m grading my NYU students’ InDesign assignments.

Jun 23rd

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Loosetalk Bob Fox Publisher of Workspace Design Magazine Co-Founder of FOX Architects Washington, DC How does the principal of an architecture firm wind up as a publisher of an online magazine? I founded FOX Architects back in 2003 with my partners Sabret Flocos and Jim Alegro. From the start, we always looked at our profession from a very collaborative and multidisciplinary approach. The...

Jun 21st

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Loosecuber of the Day John Loscalzo What are you currently working on? Brooklyn Bugle official business.

Jun 15th

Loosecubing it in San Francisco With over 40 spaces at 19 unique locations, San Francisco has a lot of great options for someone in need of a loosecube. While in the Bay Area a couple of weeks ago, we had the chance to cowork out of 4 different spots throughout the city. We thought it would be helpful to share our experiences for those of you interested in loosecubing it in SF. pariSoma...

Jun 14th

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Loosecuber of the Day Patrick Cushing What are you currently working on? Wikinvest Mobile.

Jun 10th

New Yorkers: Put on Your Walking Shoes

On Friday, June 10th we’ll join 80+ other NYC-based startups for Walkabout NYC, an annual celebration of local tech and entrepreneurs. Each startup is opening their doors to the New York community to show off their digs, talk about their product and services, and introduce the folks who make their company work. We’re so excited to be part of this year’s event and will be...

Jun 9th

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Happy Birthday Loosecubes! Big news…we turned 1! We are so grateful for all of the support we’ve received from Loosecubers, the coworking community, fellow startups, everyone involved with New York tech, friends, family - the list is endless. Your feedback and guidance has kept us on track and helped us grow to 35+ countries in just 12 months. We want to hear from you! Please...

Jun 9th

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Loosecuber of the Day Chana Ewing What are you currently working on? A social storytelling and community management strategy for one of my clients.

Jun 9th

Loosecuber of the Day Arun Stephens What are you currently working on? Zoopcast, a location-aware question and answer app.

Jun 7th

Startups Come Together at the Night Market Party Last week, a couple members of Team Loosecubes flew out to San Francisco to take part in the Night Market Party. The event was held at Thumbtack and MindSnacks’ SoMa HQ and organized by Vayable. There was a moon bounce from Airbnb, a Tesla from Getaround, remote control cars delivering beer from Zimride, and even a fire dancer! The...

Jun 6th

Loosecuber of the Day Brandon Rogers What are you currently working on? I’m an events/guerrilla marketing manager working on LivingSocial Instant.

Jun 3rd

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Loosetalk René and Eric (front left and front right respectively) with the Hurricane Party team. René Pinnell and Eric Katerman Co-Founders of Hurricane Party Austin, TX What exactly is a Hurricane Party? Hurricane Party is a free mobile app that helps friends find, share, and create spontaneous get-togethers. Whether you’re getting your friends together for an impromptu game of kickball,...

Jun 1st

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Loosecuber of the Day Alisha Miranda What are you currently working on? I’m working on being an ambassador of awesomeness while also launching new sites, publicizing projects, and providing career inspiration for young professionals.

May 27th

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May 27th

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Loosecuber of the Day John Stinar What are you currently working on? I’m a health and safety consultant working on a plan for safely installing solar panels.

May 25th