Congrats, Scott! I love hearing about smaller-city/town coworking spaces succeeding. I've been pessimistic about the prospects of coworking in smaller cities after seeing several that didn't succeed, though in my idealized world it is people in small towns who might value and benefit from coworking spaces the most (with support for the solo-worker / entrepreneur generally over-concentrated in cities). Love to hear this.
Will On Wednesday, May 3, 2017 at 6:00:11 PM UTC+2, Scott Tillitt / BEAHIVE wrote: > > Fellow coworkers… > > We’ve made it 8 years, despite (or because of) launching in the depths of > the recession. > > Apparently we’re an anomaly. BEAHIVE was founded in May 2009 in a town of > 15,000 people. Only 9% of spaces today are in areas with less than > 20,000 people — of those, only 20% are profitable (according to the Global > Coworking Survey). > > I imagine it was way less back then. > > I owe much of our ongoing success to this group, particularly pioneers > like Alex Hillman and Tony Bacigalupo, who so generously share their > struggles, success and hard-earned insights with the rest of us. > > A lot has changed over these 8 years, so I wrote a little then and now > comparison. And a hint at what’s to come. (We’re just getting started.) > > http://beahivebzzz.com/blog/2017/04/lot-changed-8-years/ > > It’s a short 2-minute read. > > Thanks for all you do. > > scott. > > - -- - > *SCOTT TILLITT* > PR yogi + social entrepreneur + community catalyst + meditator > // sc...@beahivebzzz.com <javascript:> / 917.449.6356 > // Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/scott.tillitt> / Twitter > <http://www.twitter.com/bluehwyflaneur> / LinkedIn > <http://www.linkedin.com/in/tillitt/> > > BEAHIVE <http://www.beahivebzzz.com/> // spaces for work + community > collaboration > > *ANTIDOTE COLLECTIVE* <http://antidotecollective.org> // communications > + projects for a better world > > RE>THINK LOCAL <http://rethinklocal.org/> // co-creating a better > Hudson Valley > > - -- - t h i n k / f e e l - -- - > "...an idea or product that deserves the label 'creative' arises from the > synergy of many sources and not only from the mind of a single person." — > Mihaly Csikszentmihaly > > -- 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.
