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Corporate Constitutional Rights: Why they matter and what you can do about it

March 21, 2013

Let’s play Jeopardy! ™ Under the “Democracy” category for $1,000, our clue is: “Corporate constitutional rights, progressively granted by the Courts over the last 100+ years, have created this shocking reality.” [Insert Jeopardy theme song here]. What question will match our clue and win us that $1,000? Any of theses questions below, and many more [...]

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The Creative Class: What, where and who are they?

September 12, 2012

The ThinkHouse tagline is “A coworking community for Sacramento’s creative class.” What’s the Creative Class?  We are often asked, “what’s ‘creative class?’ ” We’re asked it so often that we added to our FAQ page and tried to answer it in a succinct manner. We’re asked it so often that we wrote a blog post [...]

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Sacramento, how do you work? The results are in. Plus: a BIG announcement

July 11, 2012

Several weeks ago we ran a grassroots survey asking people in Sacramento how they work. We used simple Google form and tallied the results ourselves. We asked 8 questions about things like how people describe their work, their work environment and how they feel about the way they work. From that survey, we learned a [...]

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13 more reasons to love Sacramento in 2012

January 9, 2012

  The current issue of Sactown magazine’s cover feature is “50 Reasons Why We Love This City.” It lists the usual suspects like Wayne Thiebaud, the new airport terminal and its red rabbit, stars with local roots like Natalie Gulbis, Gretta Gerwig and Jackie Green, the local wine industry and how much we all love our [...]

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SactoMofo: good food for us, good biz for Sacramento

December 7, 2011

If you didn’t make to SactoMofo this past Saturday, then you missed out — it was by far the best of the mobile food event thus far. We’re huge proponents of the movement and see food trucks as an integral part of cultivating a unique culture and identity for Sacramento. Yes, we think the city [...]

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Getting Your Boss To Pay For Your Coworking

June 1, 2011

Check out this article from Sharable.net http://shareable.net/blog/how-to-convince-your-boss-to-let-you-cowork It’s great argument for coworking being productive, cost-effective and an overall benefit to your company. Did you like this? Share it:Tweet

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Going Solo. We couldn’t have said it any better…

April 18, 2011

Going Solo. from Studio Botes on Vimeo. Did you like this? Share it:Tweet

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Small Biz Workshop

April 11, 2011

One of the most important things we believe we can do is support the small and independent business community. After all, coworking isn’t just about community. It’s about creating a network of support so that everyone can be more successful at what he or she does. What does that mean, exactly? Well, it means that [...]

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Staying.

February 18, 2011

Editor’s note: this is a guest post by ThinkHouse member Ryan Walton. A few years ago it was Austin. Before that it was Portland. Now it’s Brooklyn. Who knows, by the time you read this it is probably somewhere else. It seems like every two years a new city emerges as “the place to be” [...]

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Cultivating home-grown economy

November 22, 2010

We were recently asked by our good friend Michael Scott for our opinion about how coworking affects local economic growth. Of course we have a lot of opinions on that topic! Here’s our contribution to Michael’s post “The Economic Gardening of Small Business: A Boost to Cities?” Cities can also boost their economic gardening efforts [...]

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