Angela- We're in a community of 10,000 and have 20-ish members year-round. If you'd like some perspective from a town our size (rural), let me know.
Joel Bennett Veel Hoeden Pella, IA USA On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Barbara Sprenger < bspren...@thesatelliteinc.com> wrote: > Hi Angela, we've got four sites, all but one (in Santa Monica) in smaller > communities. First, you need to offer a broad range of services, not just > coworking, if you're going to make this fly in towns under 250,000. We have > offices, virtual offices, admin services, meeting space -- all of it > available 24/7 by the hour, day, month, permanent. We're used for > meditation groups, the local chamber, startups, therapists, consultants -- > you name it. To start, it's best if you can be in a community of at least > 50,000. We're doing great in Los Gatos, CA with a population of 30,000, but > 50,000 is safer. If you're interested, we've kind of set up a full > "business-in-a-box" for this. We've also developed some pieces to automate > this environment so you can do all of this with only working hour staffing. > Let me know if you want more info. > > On Monday, January 6, 2014 7:25:10 AM UTC-8, Alex Hillman wrote: >> >> http://www.quora.com/Coworking/Are-there-any-successful-coworking-spaces- >> located-in-a-suburban-area-rather-than-within-the-city >> >> I know there are a bunch of folks on this list who are far more expert >> than me when it comes to rural/suburban coworking, so I wanted to share the >> above question to see if someone wanted to share their answers! >> >> If you've never answered a Quora question before, it's a pretty massive >> Q&A site where anyone can ask or answer a question, and then the original >> asker as well as other people can vote the best answers to the top. There's >> questions on all KINDS of topics, and the coworking Q&A section is pretty >> vast (once you get past all of the "where's the best/cheapest/coolest place >> to cowork in city X"). >> >> I've answered quite a few questions about coworking there already: >> http://www.quora.com/Alex-Hillman/answers >> >> HAPPY NEW YEAR :) >> >> -Alex >> > -- > Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
