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Weekend hack ingredients:

* $8 themeforest theme + some elbow grease

* Mailchimp

* My existing knowledge of the industry

* Some copywriting coaching from Amy Hoy's 30x500 workshop

Inspired by @peterc's excellent work on Javascript Weekly, and my fast-growing personal archive of news stories on how the coworking industry is exploding around the world, I decided to launch a simple weekly industry newsletter focused on sharing the best news, stories, announcements, etc.

If you work at or run a coworking space, there will be stuff in this newsletter for you.

Disclosure: I founded one of the earliest coworking spaces in the country, Indy Hall, in Philadelphia.

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Great to see more e-mail newsletters coming out! I've seen some of your other content driven experiments and I think you have the 'iceberg' of experience in this area to make it a good one.

Universities should embrace coworking space more.

My CS/CEG department (Wright State University) has just instituted an open build lab for students to study, work on homework, have senior design meetings, perform research, hang out, etc. It's full of: - hardware equipment, - Arduino toys, - Lego Mindstorms robots, - tons of computers, - Dremels, - and other things like that.

Our local chapter of the ACM does event programming and informal learning sessions based on these tools & gadgets. Not to mention, the smartest people congregate here and serious knowledge gets exchanged in this space. I am so happy to work here and have such a space.

I think it fulfills the same purpose as a coworking space. After speaking with an ABET accreditor, I learned that such a space is quite rare in a university.

I hope to apply your tips and advice to our space.

Also wanted to ask you if you don't mind: how was Amy workshop?

I actually helped create the original "Zero to Launch" workshop that became 30x500 with Amy. She's done a TON of work since I left so it's almost unrecognizable, other than the core expectations that the course will teach you to launch a product with customers - not just users, but paying customers - on day 1 or very close to it.

I've followed the workshop since it's been redesigned, read all of the materials, and am an active reader of the workshop's listserv. I can say with honesty - the experience is transformative and I'm not paid to say that.

I've watched so many "oh, shit, I get it now" moments on that it's inspiring.

Even better, I know this stuff and the students are well versed enough to teach me stuff.

I have lots of biases for Amy since we're friends and collaborators but I can say with confidence: this course is worth 10x what she charges for it.

I'm on the same boat. I know a lot about the subject, but I'm always willing to learn. I think I'll take a look.

Thanks!

The course is challenging if if you're knowledgable. Enjoy :)

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