CEO, LaunchPad Coworking
Austin, Texas Area
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- CEO at LaunchPad Coworking
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- Social Media Consultant at MediaRich
- Co-Founder, Board President at Austin Free-Net
- Director, Product Development, Communities at Excite/Excite@Home
- Director of Communities at Excite@Home
- Founder, CEO at Go Media
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Julie Gomoll’s Summary
LaunchPad Coworking + Cafe has been in the works since spring of 2007. It's a beautifully design space in downtown Ausint. We rent individual work ares and meeting rooms. The cafe is open to the public.
We're 8 weeks from opening, but this economic mess has hit us hard. Several investors have backed out and the banks are being very tight-fisted. I'm actively looking for investors and corporate sponsors.
Founder and CEO of Go Media, a graphic design firm in Austin. After nine years, sold Go Media to Excite in 1996. Ran communities for Excite for three years. Post-Excite took on various social media gigs, including VPchat, a subscription based Internet chat service, which is still in operation.
Julie Gomoll’s Specialties:
coworking, social media, design, usability
Julie Gomoll’s Experience
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CEO
LaunchPad Coworking
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Consumer Services industry)
October 2007 — Present (1 year 10 months)
LaunchPad Coworking is Austin’s first coworking café. Founded on the concept that when people share knowledge great ideas naturally take off, LaunchPad Coworking offers inspiring workspaces designed to foster productivity, creativity and collaboration.
Our thoughtfully detailed workspaces, meeting rooms, and conference rooms are available by the hour with discounts for bulk-hour purchases. Each space can be outfitted with a variety of peripherals ready to connect to the customer’s own computer. Here, people can work independently or collaboratively, and free themselves from long-term leases and cramped corporate offices. The comfortable atmosphere at LaunchPad is enhanced by our café featuring specialty coffee drinks, beer, wine and light, healthy fare.
LaunchPad Coworking will be open in spring, 2008 -
Social Media Consultant
MediaRich
(Internet industry)
2006 — 2007 (1 year)
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Co-Founder, Board President
Austin Free-Net
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
August 1995 — October 2000 (5 years 3 months)
• Defined new vision and goals for supporting Internet use and education in traditionally underserved markets in Austin.
• Crafted a strategic plan with practical steps and achievable milestones, thereby coalescing the team and creating forward motion.
• The model created by Austin Free-Net is recognized internationally as a blueprint for success in community computing.
• Honored for excellence by the City of Austin with a Distinguished Service Award in 2001. -
Director, Product Development, Communities
Excite/Excite@Home
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Internet industry)
August 1996 — January 2000 (3 years 6 months)
• Won responsibility for Excite’s entire online community strategy, growing what had been a vague notion of needing users to “participate on the site” into the highest traffic-generating suite in Excite’s product line.
• Pioneered protocols and positioning for the then unheard-of community applications that Internet users rely upon today, including instant messaging, chat, boards, groups and web-based email.
• Performed under enormous competitive pressure as major players vied to win mindshare with new community offerings. Thrived in high-stakes, winner-take-all environment, including head-spinning growth as Excite rocketed from a 35-member company to a 3,500-member company.
• Managed Excite’s Austin-based staff of 35, ensuring successful operations for community products, and synchronizing with remote executive team. Responsible for development, launch, and ongoing strategic direction as user expectations for online community evolved. -
Director of Communities
Excite@Home
(Internet industry)
1996 — 1999 (3 years)
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Founder, CEO
Go Media
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Graphic Design industry)
September 1987 — August 1996 (9 years)
Sold Go Media to Excite in 1996.
• Parlayed background in old-school typography and print design into successful computer-based design business in 1987. Grew this one-person shop into an award-winning, 17-member digital media design and development agency.
• Fearlessly adopted and mastered each new wave of media technology, from the desktop publishing revolution of the 80s to the Internet explosion of the 90s, to help clients continually leapfrog their competition.
• Directed creative and technical teams in developing the right media experiences to serve business goals of clients such as Dell, IBM, Whole Foods Market, The Nature Conservancy and Holt Rinehart Winston. Successfully introduced new media strategies to lead clients to the web as early as 1993.
• Go Media’s ability to quickly analyze, harness and channel the power of new technologies attracted Internet-player Excite to acquire the company in 1996.
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Julie Gomoll’s Interests:
gadgets, dogs, puzzles, technology, social media, diving, travel
Julie Gomoll’s Groups:
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