Come join us to meet other people in the building. We will be playing a TED talk at 8:00am sharp so get there on time if you want to start off your morning right! Creative Buzz will happen every wednesday and is open to anyone in 250 Bell Street and members of the Reno Collective.

NCET’s Tech Wednesday on February 10

Nevada’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology will be hosting their monthly networking event, Tech Wednesday, here at the Collective this week!

Meet new people & mingle with the local tech and entrepreneur communities, plus check out our snazzy digs.

The event will run from 5:30 to 7:30 pm at our facility located at 250 Bell St, and tickets cost $15 in advance or $25 at the door. RSVPs are being handled via Facebook.

Lunch 2.0 at the Amendment 21 on February 11

Join us on Thursday, Feb 11th for the latest Lunch 2.0 event! Lunch 2.0 is a new way to meet other professionals outside the usual stuffy atmosphere you find at traditional “networking events,” and hopefully inspire more collaboration within the professional and tech community here in Reno.

This Lunch 2.0, hosted by Colin and me will feature some sneak peeks of upcoming technology and creativity-focuses events coming to Reno, including the Nevada Interactive Summit and Reno Collective’s weekly Creative Buzz!

As usual, don’t just sit and listen- the point to lunch 2.0 is to get everyone out of our cubicles and face to face over a great meal and great conversations.

As with Tech Wednesday, RSVPs for Lunch 2.0 are being handled by Facebook.

Valentines Vampire Crawl on February 13

As if those two events weren’t enough, the Reno Collective is a sponsor in the second annual Valentine’s Vampire Bar Crawl.

The Crawl, starting at 8pm at the Amendment 21 and consisting of 14 of Reno’s finest and most fun drinking establishments, features $2-$3 drink specials and costs only $5.

Proceeds from the crawl’s VIP party will go towards the Go Red for Women division of the American Heart Association.

Participants are encouraged to dress as vampires, vampire victims, vampire hunters, or whatever they think goes with them!

For more information, join our Facebook Group.

We woke up this morning to a feature article in the Reno News & Review! The local Reno media have really been good to us- the Rn&R has been continually in contact with us, waiting for us to open so that they could send a team to cover our space, and what a job they did!

So, go check it out and read about Colin’s “unforgettable red hair” and my mustache. Plus they totally get what we’re accomplishing here! Thanks, RN&R and thanks Clarissa & Dana!

Thank you to everyone who everyone who braved the snow to come out to our launch party last week! We had a blast meeting new people, and mingling with those who have supported us since the beginning. There was beer, presentations and lots and lots of talking about Co-working, what the Collective is and what our plans are here in Reno.

One think in particular that we enjoyed was being able to look at our fledgling tech and entrepreneur community in person and having them meet one another. We also heard from Collective members Bryan Landaburu of Fuze and Mike Malody of the Amendment 21.

All photos were shot by Dave Calvert, and you can find his work at calvertphotography.com.

Look who’s in this morning’s NNBW! We’re extremely proud to see the local business media covering the collective- and that they really get what we’re doing and want to support it. The moment that we let John Seelmeyer know what we were getting started here he wanted to come over and check it out. Meeting with him for the interview was more like walking through our space and showing it to a friend- and someone who really found value in Co-working and what can be accomplished here in Reno.

So please visit the NNBW to check out the article and the rest of the issue- or pick up a print copy. Thanks, John!

Ed & Colin talking about the Launch Party from Reno Collective on Vimeo.

What began with Colin and I working once a week from a booth in a local coffee shop has materialized within the most inspiring building in Reno- 250 Bell St.; also home to Cathexes, REA250, the Clean Energy Center and more- as well as the birthplace of the Reno Bike Project and Bootleg Courier. So since we’re so excited about opening, we want you with us when we celebrate.

We’ll have beer & wine on hand, and some really awesome folks here you can connect with. You’ll be able to tour our setup, mingle and see a small featurette about the future of work. Also, everyone who comes to the party will receive a free ticket to the Sol Jibe show later that night at the Knitting Factory! See you Thursday!

Info

When: Thursday Jan 21 at 7:00pm
Where: The Reno Collective at 250 Bell St.
What: Launch Party
RSVP by email or Facebook

So far, we’ve had a broad range of people trying out the community, so you’re bound to meet a few new faces you might be collaborating with in the future!

If you have any questions, please leave a comment!

And so it begins- what began as a dream while working days in a coffeeshop booth has now become a reality. The Reno Collective will be opening in the first week of January at 250 Bell St., otherwise known as the Cathexes building!

We’re extremely excited to announce this, as Colin and I have been wrestling for the last year and a half to secure a building, generate interest and find the funds to open the doors.

Come Check out Our Digs

So, while we work to ready our space for the community, you should come down and check it out! We may be putting furniture together or working on Lively Labs projects, but Colin and I are available to take you on a tour! Either contact us via twitter, email, or phone (775-393-9560) and we’ll make sure we’re ready for you.

Give us a test drive

All next week, starting January 4th, you can come in to work at the collective for free! No drop-in fees, no contracts- just stop by, plug your laptop in and go to it. Just stop by any time from 9am to 5pm and we’ll show you around and then set you up in our cafe membership area.

Watch out for more!

We’ve got a launch party scheduled for January 21st here at 250 Bell, and next week we’ll be having a open house on the evening of the 7th. In addition, we’ve already got the next Reno Ignite coming up on January 14th and many more community events in the works!

Thank you to the Reno tech community, as well as the coworking community at large, who have all given us your generous support as we’ve worked to get this started.