Caroline Collective is really big. When we say Big we mean HUGE. The lot is 15,000 square feet, 6,000 square feet of it of are building, a couple thousand square feet of it landscaping and the rest is parking and common space. Bit by bit we’re slowing terraforming every square…
2009 May
Things We’ve Learned #73 – Good Design is 50% Ingenuity, 50% IKEA
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May, 26, 2009 | by
Matthew Wettergreen
Before opening last year we spent awhile shopping around for a table solution for our dedicated members. While IKEA offers a larger version of the table that most other coworking spaces in the nation use as their dedicated desk, we knew that our budget couldn’t support purchasing a complement of…
Caroline Collective hosts some really dynamic, interesting Members. Gensym is another, providing engineering software for a variety of industries. We are proud to be called “home” by at least part of their company.
Founded in 1986, Gensym Corporation is a leading provider of rule engine software and services for mission-critical…
“Home improvements” take at least triple the time allotted to them and are always costly.
We never seem to learn this lesson. But seriously, anything construction related takes almost triple the time allotted and double the cost. Take our lock-replacement scenario for example. We needed to replace a lock on…
Caroline extends a warm welcome to another new Member, Wellstorm Develepmont, who provide information technology services for oil and gas developers.
Wellstorm has built a software platform that collects, analyzes, and distributes “enterprise drilling information.”
Drilling is one of the most capital intensive activities in oil and gas production.…
Sometimes a chain and a padlock is just not good enough.
But a padlock alone will work for now. It’s taken us almost exactly a year to get around to this, and honestly it’s always been at the top of our to-do-list. But, dude, it’s hard to find a welder…
Caroline Collective is happy to welcome one of our newest members, providing engineering services and looking to create educational opportunity for community members.
Erdos Miller is an engineering firm based in Houston, TX that designs and builds custom electronic devices. Their services include design engineering, PCB layout, software development, automation,…
Be inclusive and liberal but also judicious with what and who comes into your space.
Part of our mission is to be as open and inclusive as possible. This is how we work to create a productive atmosphere and maintain an innovative and exciting buzz. Diversity and opportunity are important…
Stay in close contact with your landlords. They can help with problems.
Speaking as landlords of a type, and being under our own, we know first-hand how crucial close communication between both sides of the equation can be to a successful business relationship. From our experience, very few people actually…
$10.00 Suggested Day-Rate
We’ve struggled with this one for a while. Since the beginning of Caroline Collective we’ve been adamant about keeping our day-rate free. The central idea of Caroline Collective is to foster community and serendipitous connections across a wide range of interests, skill and boundaries — charging folks…