I was first introduced to Field Notes and their products through their bootstrapped interview by 37 Signals. If you haven’t yet, please read the entire bootstrapped series! Field Notes is an interesting experiment in taking on what appears to be an established giant in a space that requires an off shoring model to succeed. “Coudal felt the big player […]
Startupify.Me is hosting a gathering of folks in town who are already, or thinking about, implementing Lean Startup methods. To kick that off, we’re hosting a casual get together of anyone curious about Lean Startup. Please join us Monday December 19th, 8pm at ThreeFortyNine Coworking. If you’re able to come, please register now.
We BBQ a lot on Friday’s here at 349. As the season for BBQ’ing is stretching thin, we wanted to host one last BBQ that was opened up to the public. If you’re coworking-curious, this is a great chance to see what we’re doing. If you’re not, well just come by, meet us and have […]
It’s official, HackDays are coming to town! A few months back I was lucky enough to be a judge at HackWaterloo. Since getting a front row seat there and seeing the amount of apps created in a single day, I’ve been conspiring with Leila and Corey to bring them to Guelph. The event registration page […]
We’re hosting a very cool event this weekend that we’re calling UX Tuneup. We’re hosting 4 or 5 user experience guru’s here in an informal event that will be based around reviewing our own applications. Attendees will be invited to offer up their projects and apps for us all to review. The intent is to […]
CTV published a story a week or two ago about companies trying to ease commutes. It would have been great to see coworking mentioned in this mix. Coworking represents a great middle ground between full time commuting and working from home. Several of our full time members have jobs in other cities as far away […]
Just a head’s up that we’re working on hosting a user experience event here at ThreeFortyNine Coworking. We’re scheming with the braintrust behind uxWaterloo to get something started shortly. What I do know is that we’ll sponsor and host it here. It will be some sort of peer review where we get together with some […]
Chris shared a few articles recently about working, or more specifically where we work and how that’s changing over time. Working Best at Coffee Shops Why Some of Us Get More Done at Coffee Shops A lot of what they discuss relates to coworking and how we work here at ThreeFortyNine Coworking. As Chris pointed out, […]
We’re trying out placing a small print ad in the local Bookshelf paper. Yesterday I leaned pretty heavily on our friends on twitter to help design our ad. I’m sure it’s quite obvious that we’re not print, marketing, or advertising people. Thanks for everyone who chimed in to give us feedback. You can see the […]
We now offer voip services here at ThreeFortyNine Coworking. We’re still hammering out the specifics so don’t quote us on the details as they may change. What this means is our members who have dedicated desks can have a voip phone line at their desk. The cost will be about $30/month, all in. If you […]
