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London Creator Awards Winners
Rolling out a walker that can hit the trails

A teenager from a small village in Wales approached engineering students Andrew Morgan and Kit Hughes with a problem. He had cerebral palsy, and his old-fashioned walker didn’t let him get around easily. So the friends at the University of Sheffield came up with a prototype for the “world’s first truly off-road posterior walking aid.” […]
Esther Perel speaking at WeWork Future of Love event
Ask a Creator: How Esther Perel built a relationship advice empire

You know you’ve made it when you can get nearly 150 people into a room at 8 a.m. to talk about relationships. Not that there was any question that Esther Perel, the internationally bestselling author and psychotherapist, could fill a room. Perel catapulted into the popular consciousness with her 2013 TED talk “The secret to […]
Book a Street Artist's Mario Rueda
How misfit startups get funded

As Mario Rueda hustled to get funding for the company he cofounded, he began to feel like an outsider in the entrepreneur space. The platform, Book a Street Artist, connects a network of 500 artists to people putting on corporate parties, weddings, and the like. But in startup competitions, Rueda says, it’s hard to get […]
Fat Macy’s cooks up jobs for shelter residents

A year and a half ago, Meg Doherty volunteered for a men’s homeless shelter in North London. The accommodations were supposed to be temporary, but Doherty says everyone she met expected to be there for years. The problem was that they couldn’t make enough money to get a place of their own. “Then one day […]
Traveling the world, WeWork staffers say community transcends borders

Exchange program Is an ‘eye-opening experience personally and professionally’
Women affected by breast cancer find strength in numbers

Panel discussion focuses on ways to bring people together
Girls from Skateistan
These nonprofits get women and girls a seat in the classroom

Worldwide, women and girls are underrepresented in the classroom. The United Nations reports that 5 million more primary school age girls than boys will never learn to read and write. Three nonprofits in the WeWork creator community—one fusing skateboarding with education, one led by a 20-year-old Nobel Laureate, and one empowering women with tech—work to bridge the […]
DC Creator Camp 2017
‘Don’t be pitchy’ and other tips from Creator Camp

The best pitching advice from business experts? Don’t be pitchy. That’s the word from the business leaders who gathered earlier this month for the first-ever Creator Camp in Washington, D.C. The event brought together the regional finalists for WeWork’s Creator Awards, giving them a chance to chat with each other, meet one-on-one with mentors, and […]
Howard Marks and StartEngine
StartEngine works the crowd for funding

In just a year, StartEngine has helped 50-plus companies raise more than $35 million in capital. The company, headquartered at Los Angeles’s WeWork La Brea, has become one of the most active platforms for crowdfunded investment in the US. One of the first movers in the space, StartEngine remains on the leading edge of online […]
WeWork members test cutting-edge technology for instant payments

Partnership with Mastercard, Enterprise Innovation Lab debuts latest IoT advances