The first coworking space in Mures.
A successful team beats with one heart
All started 3 years ago when 2 friends founded Startup Weekend Mures with the desire to bring innovation in the city. Since then, we’ve continued to grow the entrepreneurial community in Targu Mures, together with the help and the contribution of awesome people who got inspired by this event. As community and collaboration is such a fundamental part of our philosophy.
So, it’s time to continue our passion for entrepreneurship by helping startups to grow, through education, and of course, by working in a space where people like me, and like you, can collaborate and bring new life and vitality to the area.
InnoWork wants to become an affordable and inspiring shared office environment for creatives, startups, and freelancers, but become in time a hub, with mentoring programs and facilitating access to funds.
We’re thrilled to be part of the global coworking movement, and will actively document and share our learnings across a wide variety of platforms.
We’re not reinventing the wheel here – we’ve been researching what’s been done, what’s worked, what hasn’t – we’re connecting with individuals to learn directly from people’s experiences through stories and words of wisdom.
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Ecosystems are The Future
How InnoWork wants to grow and help:
● strategic partnerships with companies to offer free/discounted services for InnoWork members (until now we have with zooku for hosting, BestJobs for recruiting)
● strategic partnerships with universities for bringing students to work in startups as interns and also to evangelize towards them the entrepreneurship spirit
● strategic partnerships with other coworking spaces in the country and in Europe, for a
coworking passport to grant access in all spaces from this network and also local access to funds for cowork members across the whole network (the plan is on going, check more here)
● making steps towards becoming a hub ad innovation lab, by start running mentorship programs, with weekly mentors dedicated 2-4 hrs day in the space
● strategic partnership with coworking spaces for a startup retreat program, exchange of experience (eg. startupretreats.com )
These are the activities planned for the next 1-2 years, but the opportunities are infinite.
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We have to continue to grow and Flourish as a community
Mures community of entrepreneurs is growing day by day (240 members, 20% active). A lot a great startups and businesses were born in this city without so much support...
● contazen.ro - in cloud invoicing and accountancy platform
● smartdreamers.ro - recruiting paltform
● cashdivider - personal finance app
● chocolicious - chocolate gifts at your door
● Quadom - creating internal games, but also outsourcing
● MeniulZilei - daily menu info and online ordering
● Direkt Spark - conversion optimisation agency
● Lumy - usability testing platform, eeatingh - order food online (spin offs by Reea company)
● CashBase - finance app, Jobber - recruiting IT people, 2048 3D game, SOS iwatch app (and many more spin offs by Lateral Inc company)
● mobiscroll.com - UI kit for building mobile apps
Just a few to mention, that are still active, a lot more closed, due to lack of guidance and support.
You can imagine how many more can grow and choose to stay in our city, if they will have support and guidance. People are, the primary drivers of economic development.
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Your help is needed
How you can help InnoWork
community:
● sponsorship
● spreading the word
● donation in services and
products (here is the list of
needed materials)
● branded products to design the
space (like a chair, or a table
etc.)
● discounts and / or free services
provided by your companies
● open doors to potentials
donors (with money, products,
services) among your other
partners
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Current support
Check here donations received until
now. Other confirmed partnerships:
● Petru Maior University
● Mobila Dalin
● BestJobs
● Zumzi
● NetSoft
● ISDC
● Zooku
● La Fantana
● Google - we received a google
grant for NGO,s with free
access to Google Work apps
and a 10k$ grant for google
search ads
And more to come.
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Alone we can do so little
● the main benefit from
supporting InnoWork to take
off has a main positive impact
the image. Getting associated
with a group of people, part of a
NGO defined by innovative
initiatives, smart, youthful,
funny can contribute to your
mission of building an image of
a creative, open minded
company
● access to a nonconformist
place for your employees to
work or have meetings (with a
pre-booking); Spending time
away from the office at a
coworking space can also spark new
ideas
● access to the entrepreneurial
community in Mures
● exposure with a reach of 10k at
least, by including your brand in
our media materials and
communication
● access to ideas worth investing
● opportunity to sustain speeches of
interest for the community
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Together we can do so much
● expanding the reach beyond
InnoWork, getting exposure on
all our initiatives ran under
InnoDrive NGO umbrella (like
kids learning code - TechDrive,
frequently meetups on
different business topics and
startup story sharing)
● joining a great strategic
network of partners that
support InnoWork with great
opportunities for the future
(like exposure, and services
exchange among us)
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Future opportunities
Accelerator
Fixed-term, cohort-based programs,
that include mentorship and
educational components and
culminate in a public pitch event or
demo day, and also access to
investors / fundings.
Startup retreat
Most of the team meets and works in
a new location than the usual one
(remote, other city, other country) It’
s focused on fun, relaxation, team-
building, and a break from day to day
operations.
Innovation hub
Maybe the most interesting feature of
hubs is that they aim to convene like-
minded individuals, the thinkers,
researchers, authors, and visionaries,
while at the same time bringing together
people with different backgrounds and
knowledge. To stimulate software and
mobile app innovations, hubs usually aim
to gather techies and coders, but also
bring in business people and investors.
Hubs are build on the notion that
ideation and creativity and so they aim
to create a structure in which individuals
serendipitously interact with others that
they would not typically meet.
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We believe that if we work together, we will grow together.
We believe whole-heartedly in our mission to create a space where people like us and like you can gather to achieve our wildest dreams. This project can radically change Targu Mures’ community, and we need you to help us make it happen.
Our past and current projects:● 3 editions of Startup Weekend Mures● 2 editions, 14 sessions of Kids learning code - TechDrive (80 total
participants, 7-17 y.o.)● 7 meetups up to date for Mures Startups
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And more than 10 InnoDrive Volunteers open to give a hand when needed.
CORE TEAM
Monica Cacina hands-on everything that’s needed & Project Manager
Techie, self-driven person, passionate about empowering people. Initiator and PM of Startup
Weekend Mures, TechDrive, InnoWork, 9+years experience in marketing and product management.
Ioana GeorgescuCommunity building & education [email protected] like good deeds, people, fairytales , art, cooking, contradictory discussions and logical arguments. I am an extremely positive person and I believe we can build a wonderful world by getting involved.
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