I agree and can relate very much to what Jacob wrote. When I started Collective Agency in 2011, I got a Council of myself and 3 other people in June, and 5-15 group organizers by July, and 50 volunteers regularly doing outreach in August, and 150 people regularly promoting each day in September. I put in a few 70 hour work weeks, and was there full-time. People want to talk with the person who has the autonomy to make agreements, and who has the willpower and the vision to shape this vision that is bigger than everyone individually involved.
Years in, unless you can (and want to) sell it, I think you will still need to focus a lot of your willpower and relationships around it. "Why does this exist as a place?" always is slightly changing, sometimes buffered, sometimes solved, and always needs someone to steer the rudder of the ship, while having a good work-life balance and having fun with it. Alex -- Alex Linsker | Business Owner Collective Agency | CollectiveAgency.co (503) 517-6900 office | (503) 369-9174 mobile 322 NW Sixth Ave, Suite 200 | Portland, Oregon 97209 -- 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/d/optout.
