Hi Kate! This post might be helpful for you to find the balance between business and community:
http://dangerouslyawesome.com/2011/09/how-to-fund-your-coworking-space/ -Alex /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Kate@CO2 <katerb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all! I've been poking around here for the last couple months, > and finally joined and am staking my ground, as it were. I have done > some preliminary research on the coworking market in the Bay Area, and > find that while there are a lot of lovely spaces in San Fran and the > East Bay, there is no such community here in the North Bay. As a > freelancer with a lot of independent friends and acquaintances who > don't want to commute into the city, I believe this could work well > here, both as a community and as a business. This town has a > population of 55,000, with other neighboring towns that might join in > as well (20 minutes north there is a 100K plus city, an even longer > commute from SF). I want to start working on a business plan to secure > funding, but I'm partly not sure who to look at as a model -- the big > spaces in the big city are much larger than we'd be... > > If anyone has any advice or direction for me, I'd love to hear it. > > Thank you! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
