Introducing Knoxville Overground
After a couple a months, a subset of us in the CoworkingKnoxville group started to brainstorm what it would be like if Knoxville had its own coworking space akin to San Francisco, New York City, Austin, TX, and other entrepreneurial & progressive hot spots in the country.
After a few cups of coffee, things started going nuts. Ideas were shooting right and left like fireworks. The “what-ifs” then started flowing everywhere. What if we could provide a wiki for incoming entrepreneurs new to the Knoxville area that gave them an archive of information about launching a company in Tennessee (for about a half to a third of the cost than other places in the country). What if we had ongoing classes, using moodle.org as our CMS, for startups and self-employed professionals? What if we brought in speakers from across the country — only through video conferencing so that it was cheaper, greener, and trendier? What if we set up this space in Market Square in downtown Knoxville? What if we could provide our members all the benefits of working for a corporation without having them work for a corporation?
And then the conversation got really interesting. We didn’t just start thinking outside of the box.
We realized there was no box.
Seriously this was some good coffee.
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Very interesting. It sounds like you have some really innovative ideas for this area. I would love to be involved in your next group session. If I can offer any services I would love to do so.
Great job Alex!
You have distilled the essence of the KO project into a perfect summary while still communicating the passion of the hours of conversation and brainstorming. The next few weeks are going to be exciting as all of the content gets uploaded and we move into the next phase.