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ORIGINATEjeremy adams, ceo

405 North JeffersonSpringfield, Mo 65806

A SHARED WORK SPACE LOCATED IN THE EFACTORY

3 CURRENT EMPLOYEES

7 TOTAL EMPLOYEES SINCE 2013MAKE SHIT HAPPEN

Founded 2013

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INDEX

COMPANY HISTORY p.4-5

COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTIONS p.12

RESPONSE TO CHALLENGES p.7-8

BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY p.6

INNOVATIVE PRODUCTS / SERVICES p.9-11

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COMPANYHISTORY

The mighty explosion launched a sonic wave of particles sprea-

ding billions and billions of light years, and then, silence. The

explosion left cosmic dust spread across an unfathomable expan-

se. The dust pooled and collected together, and on a day roughly

4.54 billion years ago, formed a small planet capable of sustai-

ning small, microscopic life in it’s carbon based environment. This

silence lasted for an uncomfortably long time, until a faint audible

hum could be heard. The hum grew louder as the first notions

of life from these microscopic creatures vibrated into existence.

It began with the singularity, a vast expansion, as infinite density exploded

outward in all directions. A birth 13.799 +- 0.0021 billion years ago.

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Years passed, and life evolved. The sea creatures became cu-

rious, and crawled out of the depths and upon the shores of the

deep seas gasping for a first breath of oxygen. Some quickly died,

while others feebly oxygenated their blood, grew resilient, sprou-

ted limbs and found life amongst the multicellular eukaryotes.

One of these land dwelling creatures, Jeremy Adams, became bo-

red with his job as a web developer for Price-cutter. He desired

more, and took a position with a newly formed marketing company

in downtown Springfield. The marketing firm, like many, died, as

the owner fled Springfield for the sunny beaches of Florida, but

Jeremy, being determined to not fail, gathered the clients that

were left, and a portion of former employees willing to give Je-

remy the chance, and proceeded to set up shop in a new location

in a 4000 square foot basement office space on the corner of

Jefferson and Walnut.

Having discovered that renting office space was expensive, Je-

remy starting searching for a way to offset costs. After some

thorough Google web searches, he came across the concept of

shared office space, or coworking. With a little planning, reorgani-

zing, and Craigslist ad creating, three initial tenants, a marketing

director for Coke in Latin America, a day trader, and a Freshman

student looking for a quiet place to do his online classes at Full

Sail University, moved into the space.

Originate was born, and like those microscopic creatures four and

a half billion years ago, evolved and grew. Now housed within The

eFactory, with a burgeoning entrepreneurial community within,

Jeremy, Jeff (former employee of the marketing firm, his brother

& clinger-on), Tim (the Full Sail student & now Jeremy’s lead de-

signer) and the burgeoning denizens of Originate will never forget

those first moments of the singularity and the terrors they faced,

whether in tiny cubicles taking customer complaints, or in a time

of darkness, fighting a roaming pack of feral wolves for the last

scraps of deer before the long hard winter’s ahead.

A Bi-ped Discovers Coworking

Originate founder, Jeremy Adams, finds that coworking brings a spirit of colaboration and a thriving community when members of the Hominina clade are brought together in a shared environment.

The Emergence of Humans

Although some hold it under contention, it is widely theorized that Modern humans (Homo sapiens) are the only extant members of Hominina clade (or human clade), a branch of the taxonomical tribe Hominini belonging to the family of great apes.

The Cambrian Explosion

During a deep freeze that gripped the Earth 715 million years ago, the first animals came into existence. Known as Trilobytes, these creatures would be a major step in the evolutionary chain.

All scientific facts have either been fabricated, or stret-ched to fit a narrative. It is not recommend that any stu-dent use the prior information for homework or research paper material.

IMPORTANT NOTE

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BUSINESS PHILOSOPHYWork is more fun when it is done together. That would be our mission statement, if we had a mission statement.

At Originate we take one thing very seriously. Work is fun, or

at least work should be, and dammit, we are making it that way.

Even if that means by force. We have Bernie supporter’s, Trump

supporter’s, undecided’s and even some ex-felon’s unable to ever

vote again (Missouri state statute 115.133.1), living amongst

each other, working hard to encourage and support each other

like a modern day Jim Jones compound of entrepreneurial spirit

without the mass suicide, but with the same cult-like devotion.

This community is dedicated to inspiring ideas that solve social,

technological, environmental, and economic challenges. We even

have one guy who brought his own bean bag in. That’s right, his

own bean bag…of ideas, and less idealistically, his own actual

bean bag.

This is the way coworking should be done, and this is the way we

are doing it at Originate. Through beanbags of ideas, old school

Greco-Roman wrestling, collaboration and friendship. We are one

of the most successful collaborative spaces in Springfield. Our

seats fill quickly. This is why we make grandiose statements with

a percentage nobody can fact check.

After all, our philosophy is simple: 99% of adult ring-billed sea

gulls* believe Originate is the best coworking space in the world,

and we plan to keep it that way.

*The 1% of dissenting adult ring-billed sea gulls prefer the Hubud

coworking space in Bali, but they can afford it. The 1% have more

wealth than the rest of the world combined.

Originate tenant Chad Boyd forgets to smile

Owner of the mobile application Txt2Give, Chad spends a great deal of time programming, and having fun, at his desk in Originate.

Chad takes numerous breaks throughout his day to challenge Originate’s own Tim Cook to champion bouts of Ping Pong.

The Tim Cook challenges Chad in the field of battle

Having lost numerous matches to Chad in the arena, Tim spends a lot of his time strategizing the eventual destruction of his arch nemisis in the realm of table tennis.

Tim is a mainstay of the Originate family having been with the team since its inception in 2012.

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RESPONSE TO CHALLENGES

I absolutely hate when a sentence starts with a question, like it is some kind of weird discussion with an imaginary friend and I can read his mind.

Where it all started.

Our original offices beneath the Aviary Creperie at Jefferson and Walnut.

(top)The stairwell down to our location. (left)The back of The Tim Cook’s head as he studies for school.

Have you ever loved doing so-

mething so much that you were

willing to take baths in an office

space’s back closet mop sink?

Been so hungry that you did

web development for unsold

pomme frites from the crepe

restaurant housed above your

establishment? Been so terri-

fied that you kept a vigilant

eye on the alleyway breaker

switch in fear that the unpaid

utility bill had finally reached

the point for City Utilities to

send a strong arm out to shut

the power off?

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If the answer is no, then you

have never faced the challen-

ges of being a small start up

trying to just get by.

But showers in mop sinks, ne-

gotiating for scraps, and un-

derground arrangements with

utility workers were not really

the challenges we faced.

The challenge, in whatever

form, is always the same,

MONEY.

We could have run from these

challenges the lack of funds

created for us a million times

over, and we would be lying if

the thought did not pop into

our heads a time, or two.

But we didn’t. Instead, we

discovered that the hot water

heater is the perfect place to

keep your toiletries as you

hose yourself off while stan-

ding on the edge of a mop sink

basin precariously avoiding the

settled, stagnant water that

slowly swirls into downtown’s

atrocious drainage system.

We found that offering the

creperie’s sous chef his own

personal desk awarded us in

a move up from pomme frites

into full blown crepes, both sa-

vory and sweet.

And finally, we learned the art

of the deal, as we balanced the

sedative effect of over-apo-

logetic calls to CU customer

service and regular micro pay-

ments to keep the back alley

conversations to a minimum.

Through thick and thin

(top-left) The street corner we called home during our early days.

(top-right) Past the hard times, original Originate staff member,

Jeff Adams, grabs a burger at the monthly Originate Barbeque at

The eFactory.

“If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else.”

~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

But most of all, we discovered

that facing these challenges

head on, and with conviction,

made us stronger and more re-

silient. Despite continuing cha-

llenges from time to time, we

are no longer forced to clean

ourselves in mop sinks. Now

we mop sink bathe for our own

nostalgic pleasure.

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INNOVATIVE PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Originate [uh-rij-uh-heyt]

Verb, to take its origin or rise;

begin; start; arise;

Synergy [sin-er-jee]

noun, the interaction of ele-

ments when combined produce

a total effect that is greater

than the sum of the individual

elements.

Pretentious

[pri-ten-shuh s]

adjective,making an exagge-

rated outward show; ostenta-

tious.

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When we started (Originate),

we discovered early on that

our reach (Synergy) could help

develop tools to assist making

coworking more manageable,

developing relationships that

could benefit our marketing,

design and development work

and invest our knowledge in

others to lift other’s ventures.

Once all the pieces were in pla-

ce, we realized we could create

a document for the Chamber

of Commerce that we could

fill with definitions artificially

filling up space but still making

us look smart (Pretentious).

This work is done through our

interactive marketing com-

pany, Verv.

The following is a comprehen-

sive list of the products that

have been developed in coordi-

nation with Originate:

(above) The FieldLink DASHBOARD is the simple, but

robust, overview of the farm.

Covy

Our one-of-a-kind coworking

management tool developed

to maintain the day to day

operations of Originate that

has quickly grown to also be

utilized by The eFactory, Jor-

dan Valley Innovation Center,

Prairie Den (a coworking faci-

lity in Fargo, ND, a division of

Emerging Prairie, and Mercy

Research, a division of Mercy.

FieldLink

A solution developed from a re-

lationship with a local farm that

has gained a quick following for

it’s set of comprehensive tools

to track crops, assets and re-

port for government subsidy

requirements.

Verv

Very Team, So Work

Mercy Research

A partnership with our

neighbor off Booneville allowed

us to develop the new web

presence for Mercy Research.

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Rural First presents to the GO BIG Pitch Competition judges

using the presentation built by his friends at Verv.

(left)A partnership with Mercy Research in the Jordan Valley

Industrial Complex next to The eFactory gave Verv the

opportunity to do a complete redevelopment of their website.

Marketing Efforts

Verv has been a behind-the-sce-

nes player for many companies

and has been responsible for

everything from sales presen-

tations, video production, and

marketing materials for nume-

rous tenants in The eFactory.

We have been responsible for,

not one, but two presentations

for Springfield Business Jour-

nal’s GO BIG Pitch Competi-

tion, our own Covy, and the

winner of the contest, Rural

First. We were proud to be

affiliated with his win, and have

continued our relationship with

numerous other projects for

him including: a new sales pre-

sentation, production of video

presentations, the creation of

brochures, a new website, a fu-

lly realized marketing plan and

a number of other tools for the

company to use for continued

success.

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COMMUNITY-ORIENTED CONTRIBUTIONSWe would be nothing if it weren’t for Springfield…literally, we were all born here.

Volunteering at Habitat for Humanity.

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Non-profits & Charitable organizations

Habitat for HumanityHabitat for Humanity - EthiopiaFordland ClinicOzark’s Counseling CenterDay of CaringIPourLifeCarry117

Entrepreneurial

Startup WeekendOfficiated (2014 & 2015, planning 2016)

Springfield Business Journal GO BIG CompetitionSponsor

IdeaWakeUpMonthly Host

Innovate TodaySponsor

If Springfield didn’t exist, our parents would never have met as

students, and conversely, without Jeremy’s stewardship due to

non-existence, Originate would never have been. Contemplate

that Back To The Future kind of logic.

But, because a well-known alcoholic, James Wilson from

Springfield, Massachusetts, offered free whiskey to the then-

inhabitants of this unnamed section of land for a vote to be called

Springfield, and much later, a Hillcrest Highlander caught the

eye of a senior about to go into the Marines in 1968, Originate

does exist and we have a lot to be thankful for, and the best

way to show appreciation is to give back. Below is a list of both

non-profit affiliations we maintain, and the involvement in the

entrepreneurial community of Springfield.