Excellent suggestion on location data, and the little formatting fix. On their
way.
I've got a dozen or so submissions overnight. Keep 'em coming people.
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On Wednesday, September 19, 2012 at 8:45 AM, rachel young wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for starting this, Alex. I'm curious about the results too.
>
> I suggest adding mandatory fields for City, Province/State, and Country so
> that you can easily search and sort by region. The two entries I just sent
> were from Toronto, ON Canada.
>
> Also you copied the notes ("It doesn't have to be a eulogy...") from the
> second last question to the last question. Just a formatting thing.
> r.
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> On 18 September 2012 22:46, Alex Hillman <dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com
> (mailto:dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com)> wrote:
> > Thanks Chris. Great idea on opening up the closure dates to the future. I
> > don't expect to close the form so we can continue to collect data over time.
> >
> > I've removed the "required" part of the date fields to allow for more
> > flexible entry and updated the intro.
> >
> > More suggestions and sharing welcome :)
> >
> > -Alex
> >
> >
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> > On Tuesday, September 18, 2012 at 10:40 PM, Chris DiFonzo wrote:
> >
> > > Alex -
> > >
> > > Props for starting this thread. I think the information will be valuable
> > > and hopefully help some current owner/operators succeed in spite of
> > > adversity.
> > >
> > > I think you will get more responses, and perhaps salvage more existing
> > > cases, if you include owners/spaces that fear or outright anticipate
> > > failure in the next 12 months.
> > >
> > > Btw, If you like we will tweet survey tomorrow.
> > >
> > > Best,
> > > Chris
> > >
> > > On Sep 18, 2012, at 10:14 PM, Alex Hillman <dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com
> > > (mailto:dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com)> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'm sure I'm not the only person on this group who has google alerts
> > > > set up for the words "coworking" and, sigh, "co-working".
> > > >
> > > > Between the number of new space announcements that show up in those
> > > > alerts, Deskmag's reporting on coworking growth trends, and many
> > > > amazing success stories that we've all been privy to seeing unfold,
> > > > there's no doubt in any of our minds that coworking isn't disappearing
> > > > any time soon.
> > > >
> > > > But speckled in the success stories are sadder ones. Coworking spaces
> > > > who struggled and failed.
> > > >
> > > > Another one hit my Google Reader tonight, in St Louis. Hence this email
> > > > and this project being spurred right now.
> > > >
> > > > On one hand, the business of coworking is susceptible to all of the
> > > > rules of starting a new business - there's going to be a failure rate.
> > > > Not every business is meant to be. The rate at which I hear about
> > > > closings is increasing, but it's hard to tell if it's growing in or out
> > > > of proportion of openings.
> > > >
> > > > Between coworking spaces that struggle to keep the lights on and
> > > > coworking spaces that have closed (for good or bad reasons), there's
> > > > patterns in closures that I personally find very interesting, far more
> > > > interesting in "new hotness variations" on the coworking models.
> > > >
> > > > The pattern-watcher that I am, I see some things, but I need more
> > > > information to start building a hypothesis that can be proven or
> > > > disproven.
> > > >
> > > > I can't do this alone. If you've started and closed a coworking space,
> > > > been a member of a coworking space that struggled and failed, or are
> > > > simply a passionate observer who saw an unfortunate closing, please
> > > > take a few minutes to help fill out this survey:
> > > >
> > > > https://indyhall.wufoo.com/forms/coworking-space-closings/
> > > >
> > > > This information is personal and potentially sensitive. I don't expect
> > > > all of the replies to include names or all of the details. Many people
> > > > on this list have shared their personal stories before, and we should
> > > > all be thankful for that.
> > > >
> > > > The best solution I could come up with is to choose how anonymous you
> > > > would like to be.
> > > >
> > > > 1) The name and email address fields are optional and will ONLY be used
> > > > to reconnect with the submitter for more information.
> > > > 2) The final required question asks for your consent to share the data
> > > > you enter, beside the optional name/email fields which are anonymous by
> > > > default. In case you have an alternate preference, you can specify it
> > > > in "other".
> > > >
> > > > There's researchers on the list, so if there's other fields that you
> > > > think I should include (or better ways to collect the same data), I'm
> > > > all ears.
> > > >
> > > > Even if you're not aware of closings you can share about, I need help
> > > > getting the word out about this project. I'm hoping for some assistance
> > > > from Steve King & Team Deskmag since I know this stuff is already on
> > > > their radar. If there's anyone else already studying this (all of the
> > > > quiet grad students on this list, I'm looking at you), I'd love to
> > > > share work reciprocally.
> > > >
> > > > My goal is to organize this information and share some hypothesis that
> > > > we all study together and share back again, overall helping the
> > > > ecosystem not just learn from successes but also avoid repeating
> > > > historic failure patterns.
> > > >
> > > > My hope is to be buried under a mountain of responses and have to
> > > > recruit some of you to help me dig myself out :)
> > > >
> > > > Thanks y'all.
> > > >
> > > > -Alex
> > > >
> > > >
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