HANAHAUS BLOG
From scaling a department within PwC from the ground up to a team of 300+, to working at a VC firm and a mobile app startup, April has always enjoyed roles that nobody else had before. Having spent the last 5 years in Palo Alto, she is currently Director of Automation Solutions at Catalytic, a Chicago-based company that automates business processes, and talked to us about how she utilizes HanaHaus for her daily work.
While remote work allows for great flexibility, scaling startups with a fully remote team can also be challenging. In this guest blog post, HanaHaus regular Ryan Robinson shares some of his learnings and experiences from working on remote teams and scaling remote startups.
Orange County got a sneak preview of the new, collaborative workspace that SAP’s Innovation Center Network (ICN) and HanaHaus are opening in Newport Beach. A small kickoff event at the UCI Cove brought together members of the Orange County tech, investment, and academic communities and engaged them in a Design Thinking exercise.
Something’s on the horizon. After more than three years of serving the Silicon Valley community with an inspiring working environment, we are ready to grow HanaHaus and open a new location. Find out more about why we choose to go to Newport Beach and our plans for the SoCal community.
In June, we were fortunate to welcome German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and the accompanying delegation at HanaHaus. Read about the President’s visit and the conversations he had with startups from the German Accelerator.
As a design director, Corinda was one of the leading heads when the New Varsity Theater became a café and coworking space. Find out how Corinda and her team started creating HanaHaus and what kind of challenges they faced along the process.
Born and raised in New Orleans, Kristopher Francisco made his way to Silicon Valley through Apple and has since started a cloud software startup. Read about his career steps from Louisiana State University to being a successful entrepreneur in the world’s most exciting tech-community.
As a professor of Italian Renaissance literature, Courtney is spending the summers in her hometown Palo Alto and loves to come to HanaHaus for her daily work. We talked to her about her current projects and the difference between working in a library or coffee shops and using HanaHaus.
Since its launch in March 2015, HanaHaus has embodied Hasso Plattner’s vision of a public workspace café tailored to the Silicon Valley community of technology innovators. Many entrepreneurs, investors, students, professors, and coffee aficionados show up every day and make HanaHaus the place to be in Palo Alto.
Corey Lenko is the head of the Blue Bottle café at HanaHaus and keeps an eye on everything going on behind Blue Bottle’s counter and in the kitchen. His journey to Silicon Valley started more than 2,800 miles away from here, on the East Coast. Learn about his great experience in gastronomy and the reason why he moved to California.
What would HanaHaus look like without our amazing ambassadors? Mariana Pinheiro is one of them. Behind her friendly and good-humored character is an amazing story. Read how Mariana got from a small town in Brazil to the heart of Silicon Valley.
Originally from Chicago, Avery Bedows co-founded his own Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality business last year and is running it as the CEO. In this blog post, Avery is talking about the advantages of being in the Bay Area as a VR and AR startup and the variety of tasks he manages as its head.
Dave Torrey has been living in the Bay Area for more than 40 years and had the pleasure to experience the HanaHaus space since it was a movie theatre. Find out what makes him come over to the heart of Silicon Valley as an independent consultant.
Julia Guenster was transferred to Silicon Valley a year ago to establish HR Innovation & Digitization for a German Freight Forwarder. Read about what Julia’s journey to Silicon Valley looked like and why she believes HanaHaus is a great spot for meetings.
