Austin chamber, tech guru team up to create startup center
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It occupies the entire 16th floor of the Omni, which is right in the heart of downtown. It's also just a few blocks from the Austin Convention Center where they host SXSW. Right now there are 60 dedicated desks and room for another 100 people for general coworking—and they have plans to expand to about 250 people total when they're fully up to speed.
I'm going to start there on Monday. If anyone has questions or is interested in seeing the space, feel free to get in touch.
That seems like something of a leap of faith, especially if "these events" are the same ones mentioned earlier in the article, i.e., they're geared toward "entrepreneurs". Why would an engineer be interested in that sort of content unless he or she were trying to launch their own company? And if they're trying to launch their own business, of course, they're not likely to be looking for a job. Sounds like another echo chamber where business people congratulate each other on Austin's awesome tech community while avoiding doing anything, you know, technical.
I'm guessing many of the existing tech oriented groups (Austin on Rails, Austin.rb, et al) will start meeting there. Many of these groups already met at the OtherInbox offices on the 8th floor. OIB is moving up to this new space—so it's natural that those groups will move up as well.
There are also several (albeit more business-focused) groups like Refresh Austin and Lean Startup Circle that have held meetings at Buffalo Billiards. That space is not really conducive to meetings of any sort (it's loud, dirty, and has few outlets) so I'm guessing those groups will move two blocks to the new space as well.