HardScrabble Solutions offers desks with office amenities including Wi-Fi, High Speed DSL, printers, electricity and heat, free parking, conference space, microwave and coffee maker
Maine Magazine features HardScrabble Solutions! Maine Magazine featured HardScrabble Solutions and Founder, Lillie Lavado, in the January 2019 Entrepreneur edition. People in Maine are taking notice of our unique business model. It is widely acknowledged that the solutions we seek to offer are necessary to counter the changing social and Read more…
HardScrabble Solutions is evolving! We offer family-friendly coworking, private event space, and business incubation services in Downtown Presque Isle. HardScrabble Solutions Founder and UX & Web Design Team at HardScrabble Solutions member, Lillie Lavado, recently spoke to Shawn Cunningham of WAGM-TV to discuss unique aspects of our business model. Lillie Read more…
We have the freedom to experiment at HardScrabble Solutions where adults and children can work side-by-side. On Saturdays, Lillie Lavado hosts the Makin’ Mine – Sensory Playgroup and throughout the week children of coworkers and those in childcare explore these activities further. On February 24, 2018, children were invited to explore sensory bins Read more…
HardScrabble Solutions recently joined hundreds of international coworking spaces by honoring the Coworking Visa. Coworking Wiki Project is a commons for all things coworking and the Coworking Visa organizational hub. The Visa program permits fulltime coworkers of another coworking visa site to use other spaces for free. The Coworking Visa allows active Read more…
People make-do in rural Northern Maine and HardScrabble Solutions is doing the same by offering family-friendly coworking. There are few tech workers in an economy centered on potato and lumber harvesting so desk space isn’t in high demand. Most of our coworkers juggle gigs in sales or service with roles Read more…
Children learn about coding in Presque Isle Melissa Lizotte • December 30, 2017 PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — On the morning of Wednesday, Dec. 27, children in Presque Isle learned about coding, a technology that many of them might use in future careers thanks to advances in computer science. The Read more…
Open for FREE coworking January 2 – 6!!! Bring in yourself and your devices, claim a desk or comfy spot… kids are welcome to use our play area, and staff will be on hand to assist. Also, open during First Friday Downtown Art Walks 5 – 9 pm, with a collaborative exhibit Read more…
Family-friendly coworking space opens in PI Anthony Brino • August 2, 2017 With one of the first coworking spaces in northern Maine, Lillie Lavado is trying to solve some of the problems facing working parents and mothers especially. “More people are working in the alternative economy. They’re gigging, freelancing and Read more…