TL;DR: WE ARE OFFERING FREE SLEEPING ACCOMMODATIONS for 8 lucky winners who are attending #ETHDenver #BUIDLWeek. Dates: February 23rd to March 6th. Location: Our hacker house in Lakewood, just an 18-minute drive from the site of ETHDenver #BUIDLathon & Festival. Apply here. Hey everyone! Mama Carlos here. It’s been a…

**This post is part of a series where I document my journey running the Cool-Oh NFT campaign from scratch. Cool-Oh links: https://linktr.ee/cool_oh Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/mJD86nUtUZ ** Today I woke up to a Linkedin email I received titled “A problem with your post”. According to it, they have found that…

Today I’m writing about the ideas I have come up with to gamify our Discord community. — *This post is part of a series where I document my journey running the Cool-Oh NFT campaign from scratch. Cool-Oh links: https://linktr.ee/cool_oh Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/mJD86nUtUZ ** How do you start a community? When I join the Discord of one of the well-known NFT communities, with thousands of members, I…

Our NFT swiss kife of tools — *This post is part of a series where I document my journey running the Cool-Oh NFT campaign from scratch. Cool-Oh links: https://linktr.ee/cool_oh Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/mJD86nUtUZ ** Hello everyone! Today’s going to be the first ”real” post where I’ll talk about what tools I’m using to run our NFT campaign…

Today, we start… — Well, the day has come! Today we launch the Cool-Oh NFT collection, and I wanted to write a post on why this collection is different.

…And Failed — This actually happened many years ago when an unknown competitor tried to close, not only my hacker house but all of them in Palo Alto. He succeeded in closing all of them — except mine. I like to focus on growing my business and community instead of falling into a…

A Coliving Operator’s Guide to OTA Usage — I generally don’t depend on Online Travel Agencies (OTAs) to fill my coliving space. In fact, my goal is to completely remove them from my sales process. I have previously written about the inefficiencies they bring to your operation. …

Your leads are not one click away from booking your space. You must filter them first and then chase them! — It took me some time running Startup Embassy to understand that what I had thought was a booking process was, in fact, a sale process. The first challenge you will face when opening your coliving, will, of course, be filling it up with the right people. You will immediately think…

You’re Selling Community — Not Isolation! — Coliving is a new industry taking shape, and as such, an ecosystem is still in early development. There are operators, each with their own model and value proposition (and most of them, in my opinion, very shallow in their value proposition). There are designers, consultants, lawyers — you name it…