Call: 214.302.7750
Email: info@cohabitat.us
Over the last 2-1/2 years, CoHabitat has become a hub for the Dallas startup community; a place where developers, creatives, and entrepreneurs have gathered to build big ideas into startups and realize creative visions. We’ve often represented it as a startup community and coworking space where individuals and startups have come to plug in and grow. Here are a few of those companies:
With the success of Earth Day Dallas 2011 – 48,000 people walking up and down Flora St. , just a stone’s throw away from CoHab – we’ve taken a step back, tilted our heads, and started thinking about CoHabitat’s role in the new Clean Economy.
What if we applied the same sense of community, passion for innovation, and ???? to CleanWeb.…
We envision CoHabitat being a place where emerging CleanWeb ideas can gestate and evolve.
…And that’s exactly the course we’ve plotted.
We’re transforming this old house into an energy efficient operation laden with CleanTech gizmos with space for new tenants: people and companies. We have CleanWeb startups, such as Dynamo Labs, based here already, and we’re hosting events like the upcoming CleanWeb mixer and a potential local mirror of CleanWeb Hackathon to be held in San Francisco. We’re also on the prowl for windmills and rooftop solar panels; just doing our part to take a load off the Texas grid!
CoHabitat is no longer just a cool old house full of startup geeks; CoHabitat is becoming the “GreenHouse” of Dallas.
Drop by for a tour…2517 Thomas Ave, Dallas, TX, or check the calendar for upcoming events.
Follow us on twitter! Like us on Facebook!
More info about CleanWeb: Clean Economy Network, #cleanweb, CleanWeb Hackathon
Need an excuse to shake off the morning (beer-soaked) cobwebs? CoHabitat will be the starting point for Uptown Fun Runs with the Dallas Running Club!
Runs will depart at 6:30am on Tuesdays and Thursdays from CoHabitat starting next week, August 3rd. That should give all of you plenty of time to get your hair did before the start of the day. Water will be provided afterwards.
So bust out your Chuck T’s (the low-tops, not your Rhinestone Cowboys) and come join us for a leisurely stroll. Well, not leisurely, but there probably will be a few stragglers.
Here’s the map for CoHabitat, courtesy of Google Maps: http://bit.ly/cgwp6J
Ample parking available on the surrounding streets, Routh and Thomas.
Special thanks to Jason McGhee for setting this up.
See y’all then!
CoHabitat is excited to be hosting this month’s Dallas Startup Happy Hour tonight from 6-8pm.
What is Startup Happy Hour?
Startup Happy Hour is held the first Monday of every month and is open to all DFW area startup founders, startup employees, investors, and people thinking about doing a startup. The event was started by Alex Muse and has been connecting entrepreneurs with employees, co-founders and angel investors since 2008. The free drinks are an added perk.
As a courtesy to everyone in attendance, we ask service providers to not just show up to pitch their services.
Startup Happy Hour is sponsored by Architel.
RSVP via Plancast: http://plancast.com/a/2xn4
When: Monday, May 3rd 2010 from 6pm-8pm
Where: CoHabitat, 2517 Thomas Avenue, Dallas, TX
Street parking is free and available on Thomas Avenue and Routh Street.
We hope to see you there!
Don’t miss the inaugural Christmas party at CoHabitat on December 18th! Join your friends at CoHab anytime between 8pm and 2am for music, drinks and door prizes.
The theme is Tacky Christmas Sweater so wear your favorite hand-made sequin reindeer sweater.
Friday, December 18th from 8pm to 2am – RSVP on Facebook
CoHabitat
www.cohabitat.us
2517 Thomas St.
Dallas, TX 75201
214-302-7750 (new phone number)
Get directions
Hope to see you there!
Scott Beale, publisher and editor of Laughing Squid, is coming to town and hosting a two-part Drinkup for friends and fans.
Stop by CoHabitat on Friday, October 23rd from 5-7pm and say hello to our favorite tentacle. Drink sangria from a 5-gallon margarita pitcher and have a St. Arnold beer from the kegerator.
Following the drinkup will be more drinks (well, pints) at The Ginger Man.
Good afternoon. Ajay Waghray here, I was live-blogging for the TEDxSMU event yesterday. I hope everyone either enjoyed following the posts yesterday during the day or reading them today after everything is all said and done. It was a great deal of fun, I hope it shows.
Last night a friend of Cohabitat mentioned to me at the TEDxSMU after party that I should post something about my experience after I’ve had some time to meditate on it for a bit. I thought about that, mulling it over before ultimately deciding it was a great idea. (more…)
TEDxSMU on Saturday felt like someone took a hunk of liberal California and dropped it into the buckle of the Bible belt. But my experience at TEDx got me to thinking. Why is it that the kind of thinking that is embraced and encouraged by any TED event is so different from the prevailing thinking typically associated with the southern part of the US? Are southerners stupider than the rest of the country? No, of course not. A paper published by Virginia Commonwealth University in 2006 proved that IQ is relatively the same across all states. Some would say that it is a religious thing. Alright, fine, let’s look at that. (more…)
TED, in their own words is “an intellectual circus for ideas. Presenters don’t lecture but rather amaze, entertain and present ideas in 18 minutes or less.” So to distill it is to strip it of its meaning … meaning that what I’m about to do is a woefully inadequate substitute for the real experience. It’s like when you tell that joke and nobody laughs, you shrug and say, “I guess you had to be there.” Well kids, you had to be there. (more…)
5:57pm: Kapow! That blew by fast. Hope y’all enjoy the live coverage of TEDxSMU on the Cohabitat blog. This quite honestly one of the best things I’ve ever decided to do, I’m glad we could share the ride together. I’m sure this won’t be the last time we see each other. Feel free to follow me on Twitter until next time at http://twitter.com/ajaywaghray/. I’ll keep you up-to-date on what’s going on with me since we’re such good friends now. In the meantime, I’m gonna try to see if I can sneak my way into the TEDxSMU after-party at Reel FX Studios. Take care, until next time!
- A-Slice
5:19pm: POLYPHONIC SPREE!!! Side note, I saw these guys at ACL in 2003. They’re awesome, I can’t wait.
5:16pm: If you guys have been enjoying this blog, I’m going to have some of my own stuff up soon. Feel free to follow me on Twitter, @ajaywaghray. Shameless plug over. P.S. TEDxDubai has 1,000 attendees. WOW!!
5:11pm: Sorry I didn’t post for a while, Turk really roped me in. He was discussing what he did for a school in Africa, planting trees, building rainwater collection systems, and a high school for the kids to continue their education.
“It’s not hard to changed the world. Just pick an issue you care about, and take action.”
5:03pm: “Women grow 80% of the food in the world and own less than 10% of the land.”
5:00pm: “The cameraman that took this picture told me that I looked like a human q-tip.” (more…)
3:07pm: Break time! Tom Riley’s thanking all of us for coming, nice pink glasses! See you in a bit after I charge my laptop.
2:55pm: Kim Corbet‘s up!
2:54pm: “We need science teachers that really believe they’re scientists.”
2:52pm: Aaron Reedy’s up now, trying to get his kids more interested in biology. Fund for Teachers is what he’s focusing on, trying to get his out there learning. We can never have enough great programs like this! Apparently he asked for funds from this Fund to row up the Mississippi River from New Orleans. Took samples of water to determine different quality of water. One thing they weren’t expecting was so much water. 15 feet above flood stage! Flow rate of 1 million gallons per second!
2:48pm: Demo time! Field filter? This girl has the cutest Texas drawl, and a great product. Water goes in gross, comes out completely clear. Well done young lady!
2:41pm: He’s doing the 5-digit square! There’s all kinds of stuff coming out of his mouth right now. He’s adding things to “tennis” and “mover”…huh? Wow, he got there. It’s incredible. (more…)
The author with Hamid and Anousheh Ansari
Anousheh Ansari is the world’s first female space tourist. That’s what she’s famous for but it isn’t the greatest of her accomplishments. I spent a few minutes talking with Anousheh and her husband Hamid during lunch at TEDxSMU. The Ansaris are serial entrepreneurs. You may have heard the name through their sponsorship of the Ansari X Prize, a $10 million prize to be awarded to the first non-governmental group to launch a craft into space twice within two weeks, a prize won by Spaceship One.
CoHabitat:
Why are you speaking at TEDxSMU today?
Anousheh:
Change happens when individuals start something that they feel passionate about and take action toward it. I’m hoping that people here won’t just see problems that need solving and complain about it, but will actually do something about making a difference and changing it.
William and Bryan (photo by afromusing)
As of today, The Boy Who Harnassed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope is #10 on Amazon’s bestseller list. It is the story of William Kamkwanba who overcame incredible challenges to provide hope for his family and village in Malawi by building a windmill to produce electricity and pump water. I talked with William and his co-author, Bryan Mealer.
CoHabitat:
The theme of today’s TEDxSMU is “What will change everything?”. So I’ll ask you that question. William, what will change everything?
William:
Education and communication. Change starts when people know more. So we need to educate people. But people cannot do things alone. So we need the ability to communicate to bring people together and the ability to get the information to the people. (more…)
With 275+ confirmed for the recent “Developer Garage,” we organizers were starting to fret about our best laid plans to host a mixed crowd of technical developers and more business/marketing types in Uptown. With the gracious support from Intel and Facebook, we were able to put on a stellar event at the Rosewood Crescent Hotel; which happens to be the nicest hotel around and it’s just a stone’s throw from CoHabitat (Thanks Intel!)
Now, we both know developers are more fond of comfort wear, snarky t-shirts and flip-flops than the regular Crescent crowd but that’s where the fun began. It reminded me of Deadheads descending on Vegas for the annual Grateful Dead show.
We kicked off the event in two separate tracks: a marketing track led by Blake Burris and technical track led by Tyler Fields. Speakers included local entrepreneurs and developers as well as agency folks representing The Richards Group (Chik-fil-A) and IMC2 (Pizza Hut). We took a break around 3:45 for drinks and tasty appetizers then re-convened to a combined room for a panel discussion featuring speakers from both tracks. We estimate that throughout the afternoon there were about 200 in attendance. The presentations are linked below.
Photo credit: Eugene Hsu
We adjourned the event at 5:30 for pizza, cold beer, t-shirts waiting at CoHabitat (the startup community and coworking space in Uptown), for socializing and music from our regular DJ, Joey Liechty. We also drew names for the netbook from Intel. Thanks also to Albert Lai at Kontagent for donating some trail accounts and to Justin Smith of InsideFacebook for several Faceboook Marketing Bibles.
Party photos courtesy of John Joseph Bachir.
If you’d like to learn more about the Facebook developer & marketing community in Dallas, join our group: Facebook Developers Dallas. We’ll be organizing more regular meetings now that we have a convenient meeting space at CoHabitat.
Speakers and presentations:
Chris St. John, Praxis Bridge “Third party services – A tale of intrigue, betrayal and murder”
Jake Good, Drop.io “digital content switchboard”
Giovanni Gullucci, Measuring Your ROI / Facebook Marketing
Andy Chen / Chris Stevens, Traxo
Bobby MacFarland, SuperRewards – please contact Bobby directly for info: bobby@srpoints.com
Thanks to everyone who made this event rock. Your organizer team, Blake, Tyler, Scott, Stormy.
We’ll get this blog going shortly! Always so much to do, so little time to do it.
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