{"id":42057,"date":"2023-10-20T15:18:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/hotdesk-receives-investment-from-former-mining-services-couple-graham-and-linda-huddy-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:18:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:18:25","slug":"hotdesk-receives-investment-from-former-mining-services-couple-graham-and-linda-huddy-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/hotdesk-receives-investment-from-former-mining-services-couple-graham-and-linda-huddy-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"HotDesk receives investment from former mining services couple Graham and Linda Huddy &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"445\" height=\"352\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/l_hotdesk-445.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"l_hotdesk-445\"><\/div>\n<p>Workspace sharing platform HotDesk is preparing to ramp up its branding and online content after securing funding from one-time mining services business owners Graham and Linda Huddy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>HotDesk founder Steve Glaveski told <i>StartupSmart<\/i> the couple had taken a 25% stake in the company, which is tapping into a growing appetite among Australian start-ups and entrepreneurs to use <a href=\"leadership\/co-working-continues-to-take-australia-by-storm-meetings-and-new-spaces-launched\/2013091310711.html\">shared office space<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCo-working gives people an opportunity to bounce ideas off people,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s more collaborative, improves a sense of morale, and generally people want to go somewhere to work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>HotDesk connects businesses with excess office space or facilities with businesses that need access to flexible space.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Glaveski says the new investment will allow him to develop a website that \u201cresonates\u201d with the firm\u2019s target market and content that users will want to share across their own networks that drives traffic to the site.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He says business is embracing the \u201csharing economy\u201d, which improves affordability of services, flexibility and community.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Graham Huddy says in a statement that \u201cit makes sense to be backing a young entrepreneur such as Steve Glaveski who is passionate about taking HotDesk forward\u201d, pointing out that 32 of the top 100 members of the <i>BRW<\/i> Young Rich list were in the technology industry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will be many industries that can benefit with technology now playing a strong part in the future direction in all business,\u201d Huddy says.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fundamentals of traditional office space within our major cities are rapidly changing in the fast-paced world of today, and HotDesk has the potential to play a part in how the supply and demand now find new connections.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workspace sharing platform HotDesk is preparing to ramp up its branding and online content after securing funding from one-time mining<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}