Place
Plus People
Seattle’s premiere coworking
and incubation space puts the
“building” in “community building.”
Serendipity is a constant at Impact Hub Seattle,
a coworking and incubation space in the
Emerald City’s Pioneer Square neighborhood.
If members aren’t at the coffee bar bumping into
developers who can help them build a website for
their new business start-up, then they’re likely to
be at a member lunch sitting across the table from
potential angel investors who are looking for a social
venture entrepreneur with whom to partner.
Those are the kinds of connections the space seems
to foster organically, but the fact that they occur on a
regular basis is completely by design.
Lindsey Engh is Impact Hub Seattle’s Marketing,
Communications, and Member Care Director.
Creating meaningful connections between Hub
members is part of her job description.
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“Members join Impact Hub because they need a
functional workspace,” Engh said. “The reason
they stay is the community. They find people here
they connect with, who can help them grow
their businesses.”
That was Hub member Kamal Patel’s experience.
Patel started ÜbrLocal
™ at Impact Hub Seattle.
The website provides an online marketplace where
urban food producers can sell, trade, or give away
food or food-related services. “In a place like this,
you get direction,” Patel said.
“You get to meet these amazing, talented people.
One of our developers was introduced to us through
the Hub, and now he’s on our board.”
Impact Hub Seattle’s small, paid staff and team of
work-trade members have adopted a number of
Kimo Jordan, Brian Howe, and Lindsey Engh, Founders
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