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2011 – The first “Coworking Unconference” was located in Austin,
Texas. Angel funding starts for a network of spaces. Large companies
began to explore the coworking idea and opened their own chain of
coworking spaces specializing in corporate coworking.
2012 – Coworking spaces worldwide adds up to more than 2,000
established. Media outlets such as twitter have a huge increase of tweets
(over 50%) with hashtag “coworking” – more than the prior year.
2013 – As many as 100,000 members worked at a coworking space at the
beginning of the year. Mid-year, the 3,000th coworking space is founded.
Most of the coworking spaces run independent of networks. In an Ontario
coworking space, they offered the first health insurance plan.
