I'm working on launching a space now in NYC and I am also a Full timer (remote) and I definitely feel the insanity that comes with doing both at the same time. Early last year a friend said he wanted to come on to help launch things, but honestly I don't think he really is interested and his input hasn't done much to alleviate anything so I am about to drop him off he project. I luckily found two other co-founders who are awesome and passionate about getting things done and it's a world of difference when you have a team that works well together.
On Thursday, December 18, 2014 at 9:18:31 AM UTC-5, Jason Phelps wrote: > > I currently work for a company remotely and spend my days at a coworking > space. I am looking at the option of starting my own coworking space to > meet a need in a particular location in town. I've read some stories of > others starting their own space while working fulltime, but those posts > were from 3+ years ago. Not to negate the value of experiences that are > old, I wanted to see if there's anyone that has done that recently and how > it impacted your ability to start your space. > > The other aspect of this that is probably more difficult to predict or > control is profitability and the ability to actually do this full time. A > comment I found on this forum said regarding the time to make the jump to > doing coworking fulltime was "it's a singular moment where you just know." > I wanted to hear from other owners here if it is possible to actually do > coworking fulltime, or if I should not even be thinking along those lines > and just focus on solving a need here in town and let it grow as it does. > I'm curious what others have seen in their experience. > > I'll be doing some digging here and possibly even have some questions > around recommendations for management software, door locks, etc. But for > now, I'm honestly just open to hearing advice from those that have gone > down this road and learned lessons that I'd prefer not to learn the hard > way :-) Whether that's business partners, leasing vs. owning, etc., I'm > open to advise and wisdom from all the experts here. > > I'm so glad I found this group - looking forward to reading and learning! > -- 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.
