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What is Coworking? Everything You Need to Know

Austin Startup

One of the first early coworking spaces (although the term “coworking” wasn’t used yet) was called 116 West Houston in New York City. Its founder, John McGann, discussed the community and productivity aspects of the space in this article from 2004 : “People are here to work.

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Summer in the City: Why there's no other place I'd rather be than New York

This is going to be BIG.

The speed of that initial spread caught the state and local governments flat-footed. When even a guy trying to be Mayor of your city leaves it… As they say, “Houston St., Union Square Ventures raised its first fund in NYC in 2004 and it wouldn’t see the first local IPO from that fund, Etsy, until 2015. we have a problem.”