While doing your due diligence, be sure to read everything you can find about SoCoDepot – formerly of Penngrove, CA. Anthony Tusler is a great resource and a font of info re. coworking and the north bay.
He may just have been ahead of the times, but definitely worth reading his thoughts on why the space in Sonoma just couldn't get enough traction to survive. And as you probably already know, start with jellies and meetups and *confirm* that there is indeed a community need! Hillary On Oct 11, 2011, at 2:18 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.
