Day 1: rise and shine Thursday morning, 9 AM, the brave participants of the Open Data Hackathon gather at ICAB to immerse themselves into the world of sensors, Raspberry Pi’s, Arduino’s and creative data creation and collection. Toon Vanagt introduces the open data hackathon goals and the team members pitch challenges they would like to […]
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Learn to Pitch to Journalists with Journalists @Betacowork
Every startup knows how to pitch to an investor, it’s the number one lesson they teach you. But when it comes to journalists, it’s a whole other ballgame. There’s a specific way to communicate with the media, a way to tell the story of your company or product so that journalists want to listen. However, […]
One of the Most Promising Startups in Belgium: data. be
The Word Magazine has assembled a jury of start-up experts, including Ramon Suarez, founder of Betacowork, who chose to put data.be and its founders under the spotlight as one of the most promising startups in Belgium. But what is exactly data.be and who are those Belgian entrepreneurs behind it? data.be data.be, founded by Toon Vanagt and […]
#BrusselsLockDown? Les espaces de coworking accueillent gratuitement les travailleurs et leurs enfants
Le #coworking pour faire face au #BrusselsLockDown Click To Tweet Écoles fermées? Coworking is open! Dimanche passé, le 22 Novembre, les autorités belges ont décidé de élever la ménace terroriste au niveau maximal (niveau 4). Conséquence: fermeture des écoles, de plusieurs activités commerciales et métros. Des entreprises ont donc conseillé aux travailleurs de travailler d’effectuer du […]
The raise of freelance in Belgium
How many freelance there are in Brussels? Is the number increasing in the past years? How many companies are bankrupt in Belgium? Here are the answers to these questions and a lot more! This post intends to give an overview of the situation of self-employed in Belgium. The data is taken from the annual report of […]
We Are Press Darlings (at Least This Week)
This has been a great press week for Betacowork. Two days ago I was interviewed by Amandine Cloot for an article in Le Soir about the impressive growth of coworking. That same evening the radio program Le 5 à 7 picked up the story from the paper and gave us a couple minutes of air time. Yesterday Elle […]
StartupBus will be at Betacowork this Saturday!
Do you know what is StartupBus? In case that you don´t we will let you know! It´s an intense competition where top talent compete as “buspreneurs” to conceive, build and launch a startup on a bus in 3 days. They travel around the world and this time the tour takes place in Europe. On […]
