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Launch Indiana aims to help Anderson grow

Thursday April 6th over 80 city leaders and influencers gathered on the sixth floor of the Union Building in Downtown Anderson.

This raw space has gone untouched for nearly a decade and is exactly the reason is ripe for Innovation Driven Businesses and their Intraprenuers. Highlighted in the space were ongoing projects within the downtown Corridor. Such as the Edgewood Park Disc Golf course, MCOGS plans for connecting and creating more trails through the city leveraging exiting paths and rails to trails, Vesuvius Coworking’s plan to provide and foster Innovation Driven Companies and Individuals, BuckSkin Bikes’ efforts to improve the cycling experience within downtown and around, and most importantly the delicious sandwiches from Train Stop Deli.

Shane Bivens, the founder of Vesuvius Coworking, has been working throughout the nation to gather resources and plan for the opening of our HQ in Downtown Anderson. Reach out in the comments below to ask how to propel this project forward.

More details from the Anderson Launch of Launch Indiana Initiative:

Corey Sharp, director of Purdue Polytechnic Anderson, said he sees students who are ready to

Corey Sharpe: Director Purdue Polytechnic Anderson

develop businesses in Anderson, but without office space or a development area they struggle to stay in Anderson.

“Students right now want to develop businesses and would want to work here,” he said. “We need to work on this.”

ANDERSON – A city wanting to land the next big business shouldn’t be looking at lower taxes or more business incentives; that’s what any community is doing.

Instead, governments should look at building a place innovative and entrepreneurial people want to live, and let them go from there. That was the message representatives of Launch Indiana had for community and business leaders at an introduction event Thursday.

“For every development coming down the pike, there are 300 places that are exactly the same,” said Ball State professor and Launch Indiana representative Geoff Shomacker.

Which means the old way of luring business, through lower taxes… Read More on The Herald Bulletin

Vesuvius: The Herald Bulletin Article by Christopher Stephens

Co-working space looks to offer community, camaraderie for local entrepreneurs

ANDERSON — An Anderson native is looking to offer entrepreneurs, telecommuters and artists a place to collaborate and learn from each other’s wins and losses.

Vesuvius, a co-working space, would tap into the growing number of people — projected to be 40 percent of the labor force by 2020 — who don’t travel to an office each day, but instead work from coffee shops, libraries, park benches or home offices.

M Shane Bivens a photo by Don Knight

The idea is that instead of pockets of creative professionals working by themselves… Read more on The Herald Bulletin

Purdue Polytech Talk Late 2016; Coworking and Entrepreneurship with Shane Bivens


Vesuvius Founder M. Shane Bivens Recently;

Had a great conversation with the Purdue Polytech Talk at Woof Boom Studios about Anderson, Coworking and Entrepreneurship. Listen to learn more about coworking and its potential in Anderson Indiana.

‘Coworking’ took over ‘Office Rental’ in 2015!

Google Trend analysis provides an amazing level of insight and is freely available. Have you recently searched for the terms you use to describe your business?

Vesuvius is a Coworking Space. So for this analysis our interest is determining; whether, coworking is a trend or here to stay.

First Question I had, Is what does a trend truly look like on google trend analysis?

So I picked something stable over the past few years: ‘Mountain Bike’ and added ‘Hoverboard’ as my trendy item.

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‘Hoverboard’ is the Red line while my stable item ‘mountain bike’ is the blue trend line. As you can clearly see ‘hoverboard’ came out of no where skyrocketing up. Now it has stabilized. The future for ‘hoverboard’ is hard to determine unless they make a TRUE Hoverboard!Mcfly

So now lets look at when one search term takes over another. In this case when ‘Coworking’ took over ‘Office Rental’.

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This is an interesting chart where you can clearly see that the growth of ‘Coworking’ (red line)  overtook ‘Office Rental’ (blue line) in 2013-2015. If I were to plot a trend line; I would be confident, ‘Coworking’ will be equal to pre 2005 numbers by 2017.

Lets take an even more interesting look at what these trends can tell us…

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‘Internet of Things’ or IoT is, simply put, as a search term shows the proliferation of devices being ever more web enabled.
Such as the Nest Thermostat.

Nest

That is one sexy thermostat, smh. Back to our chart:

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The comparison of ‘Internet of Things’ to ‘Coworking’ is a logical choice as they are being driven by each other. As people become evermore connected so do their devices. As people become evermore mobile so do their expectations of work environments.

A geek such as myself looks at the networked community coworking elicits and enables people much as a networked device enables and elicits a betterment of our lives.

Comment below about what you find when you search google trend analysis for the things that interest you.

https://google.com/trends/

by: M. Shane Bivens
shane(at)vesuvius.in