For KStartup's third demo day, held yesterday at the D.Camp co-working building, the team focused on the fundamentals of great startup pitches, something Lee learned through his involvement with Y Combinator.
betaworks does provide a team, co-working space, and mentorship like a traditional accelerator, and they also take an unspecified slice of equity in the business, but generally the program operates very differently from traditional accelerators and incubators.
The team's members frequently work in co-working spaces, so they're hoping to make the experience better for themselves and others.
The community has been even further solidified by the recent launch of Exosphere, an entrepreneurial education community, at their historical location referred to simply as "The Palace". Bringing together co-working space and education, the team at Exosphere is attracted members and visiting faculty from around the world.
In addition to funding, these social innovators gain access to resources provided by the Tamer Center, such as connections to pro bono consulting teams, subsidized co-working space, and support from its advisory network.
A couple of weeks ago, co-working space WeWork announced it would team up with Airbnb to offer a co-working and accommodation double service to business travellers.
Yes, co-working spaces can work for you.
Team members Tom Shea, who previously worked on a number of startups and co-working spaces, and Tom Bull are currently working on a more general access control system, but for the hackathon, they teamed up for this more manageable project.
Part of the origin story stems back to an event the team hosted at a co-working office.
In the basement of a co-working space in downtown San Francisco yesterday, 17 teams took turns to give an 8-minute pitch about the software and services they had developed to make selling, installing and shopping for solar simpler.
