What is the URL for your coworking initiative? All I see is your company below...
Tara On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Venkat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi guys, > > How are you all doing. See a fairly active group around here. I just > came across coworking on a magazine article and it set me off thinking > and like a few other venture I am grinding out, decided to start this > one too. I checked quick within this group if there was anyone else > from the land of a billion people, but sadly :( > > As for me, I am Venkat (when-cat) and I co-founded and now run an > outsourcing services (oh, what else) start-up with a small-ish > functional office in India and operations/ virtual offices in Norway, > Sweden, the UK, and Colombia. If you found us interesting this far, > look us up on www.outsmart360.com. Working on a few others too. > > Funding is hard to come by in India, and like the rest of the world - > money talks. And real estate has gone through the roof. After working > through two apartments, a highly expensive, yet very functional > business centre (like a regus), I finally managed to set up an office. > This is a 30 seater, but I only have 10 people on board now, so I > figured why not let other people who want to start-up or are free- > lancing step on board and have access to real infrastructure for as > less as maybe 50$ a month? Yeah, thats how low I would love to go, > lets see if my accountant allows it ;) Sounds killer though. > > And since I like calling people names, I decided to name this > "movement" around here OpenCommune - and I would love other people > around here in India to join me as well. Yep, just booked the domain > name. So since I have the space and the infrastructure, I should just > start going about getting it a bit conducive for people to use (but > heck, we already have wireless, beanbags/chairs, functional tables, a > lounge with coffee and green tea + snacks, a mega sized white board, a > nice little loo like the one you find around the local pub - but > doesn't stink as much, satellite radio, air conditioning, and 24/7 > security and access...and yeah - lots of grafitti on the walls done by > the creative cooks who work with me). > > I am going to spend the next couple of days running through all the > information you guys have out here and on the web. Gonna have a lot of > questions (many will be operational) and will post up when I have > them. > > I am really kicked about starting this initiative out here in > Bangalore/India! If any of you are visiting, you are welcome to drop > in for the day! > > Sorry about the long story. Like most Indians, I like rambling too ;) > Cheers! > > > > -- tara 'miss rogue' hunt coFounder Citizen Agency (www.citizenagency.com) blog: www.horsepigcow.com phone: 415-694-1951 fax: 415-727-5335 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
