Re: [Coworking] Suggestions for Coworking Spaces to visit in New York
Hey Tabari! You're always welcome to stop by and check out my space, New Work City: http://nwc.co NYC has so many spaces now, with new ones opening all the time, so it can be a little intimidating. For spaces of roughly that size or a little larger, off the top of my head, you could check out: Projective Space, Grind, Bat Haus, Impact Hub, Centre for Social Innovation, St. Lydia's Dinner Church, Con Artist Collective, Secret Clubhouse, Orbital, Makeshift Society, Neuehouse, Alley NYC, Wix Lounge, Paragraph... I can link you to any of these if you have trouble finding them. You can also see pretty photos of a whole bunch of NYC-area spaces here: http://www.alleywatch.com/2014/01/the-complete-guide-to-coworking-in-nyc/ Cheers! Tony *-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ Keep in touch: Twitter http://twitter.com/tonybgoode * Facebook http://facebook.com/tonybacigalupo * Subscribe to my blog http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=tonybacigalupo+ Projects: NWC http://nwc.co/ * Meetup http://meetup.com/coworking-nyc * NYTM http://nytm.org/* *+ Travel: NYC 12/15-? * Miami 1/27-?* *-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-* On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 1:04 AM, Tabari Brannon tkbran...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. I will be in New York this week. I am looking to visit a few coworking spaces. Are there Any spaces you would recommend I visit preforably ones 4000sq ft - 5000 sq ft. I am particularly interested in how the space is configured. Thank you in advance for your recomendations! Tabari -- 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. -- 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.
[Coworking] Can we talk about bank fees?
I don't know about everyone else, but since I've opened a coworking office, one of the most mysterious and difficult-to-wrap-my-head-around concepts has been why the hell am I getting charged so much for accepting credit cards and where is it all going. In our scramble to get open in time, we signed on with First Data, Wells Fargo recommended them so what could go wrong? This month, we billed $1435 through first data, from that, we were charged a $48.55 bankcard discount fee, a $23.87 Bankcard interchange fee, and a 53.89 Bankcard Fee. First data is incredibly unhelpful, but I've managed to figure out that the discount fee is just what they charge us, the interchange fee is what the credit card charges us, but what the hell is the Bankcard fee? Also, most beguilingly of all, It's been slowly going down while our other two fees have been going up. I knew it would be a little pricy, but it seems absolutely insane that we're paying nearly 10% of our revenue out to these companies. It's going to cost us $500 to break the contract and I'm totally on board with doing it, but is there a much better solution? -- 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.
Re: [Coworking] Can we talk about bank fees?
Oh wow, your fees are way too high. Kill that contract! Standard fees are closer to 2.9% + 25-30 cents per transaction. Even when you factor in all of the tools to work with a decent processor like Stripe or Braintree, the max you're gonna pay is 5%ish. Even PayPal (which sucks for lots of other reasons and I would not recommend using) is 2.9%. The biggest additional benefit to using Stripe is that your account is portable. It also manages recurring subscriptions and, when you get a bit bigger, plug into awesome business analytics tools like Baremetrics.io and FirstOfficer.io that are built JUST for stripe. For actually managing memberships and subscriptions, do some googling around for stripe membership subscriptions and see which option fits your needs. You can get things that are out of the box like Memberful, or things that are super duper customizable like GravityForms for Wordpress + the 3rd party Gravity Forms stripe plugin (that's what we do. It's not perfect but it gives us the control we wanted). Do some homework before choosing again, but you're DEFINITELY overpaying now! -Alex -- The #1 mistake in community building is doing it by yourself. Join the list: http://coworkingweekly.com Listen to the podcast: http://listen.coworkingweekly.com On Tuesday, Dec 23, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Jensen Yancey jensen.yan...@gmail.com, wrote: I don't know about everyone else, but since I've opened a coworking office, one of the most mysterious and difficult-to-wrap-my-head-around concepts has been why the hell am I getting charged so much for accepting credit cards and where is it all going. In our scramble to get open in time, we signed on with First Data, Wells Fargo recommended them so what could go wrong? This month, we billed $1435 through first data, from that, we were charged a $48.55 bankcard discount fee, a $23.87 Bankcard interchange fee, and a 53.89 Bankcard Fee. First data is incredibly unhelpful, but I've managed to figure out that the discount fee is just what they charge us, the interchange fee is what the credit card charges us, but what the hell is the Bankcard fee? Also, most beguilingly of all, It's been slowly going down while our other two fees have been going up. I knew it would be a little pricy, but it seems absolutely insane that we're paying nearly 10% of our revenue out to these companies. It's going to cost us $500 to break the contract and I'm totally on board with doing it, but is there a much better solution? -- 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. -- 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.
[Coworking] Requirement for coworking space
Hello any one can tell me what is Requirement for coworking space? like ( space , money budget , business plan and ... ) is it possible for be a resellers of coworking space in another country? thanks -- 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.
[Coworking] Starting a new coworking space while employed fulltime
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.
[Coworking] Re: Coworking in Georgetown, Texas?
Hi Amy, It appears the coworking movement is gaining momentum in Central Texas but our discussion board has stalled a bit. Is anyone interested in meeting in the Teravista/HEB shopping area to talk about what needs (if any) for this area? Judith, are you still investigating Georgetown as an option? On Monday, March 11, 2013 4:28:52 PM UTC-5, Amy - Plug Play, Austin, TX wrote: Hi there, I own a coworking space in wy North Austin (Anderson Mill 183). Our unique twist is offering childcare in a completely separate section of the building. You don't need to have a child registered at PP in order to work there. It's been doing well! If you need to bounce ideas off of me, or would like to come see the space, I'd be happy to show anyone around. I can definitely see a need for a coworking space in RR/Georgetown. Good luck! ~ Amy On Tuesday, March 5, 2013 3:29:35 PM UTC-6, Gregg Geil wrote: I to am looking for a co-working space in the Round Rock/Georgetown area. On Tuesday, September 13, 2011 3:48:33 PM UTC-5, jmanriquez wrote: Hi All, I've been following posts for the last few months and the past couple of days have been amazing! Your passion and commitment is inspirational. I've been doing my due diligence for starting a space in Georgetown, Texas. We are 30 minutes north of Austin and are a smallish community (67,000). Gratitude goes out to everyone who has offered feedback and support on budgets and advice on getting started. I will be releasing a website link to inform and collect information in my community. When I have it done I will share here. If I can find and/or generate the support we will see a new coworking space in Texas. If there is anyone out there who is interested in joining or supporting this venture please make contact. Thanks again to all, Judith -- 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.
Re: [Coworking] Suggestions for Coworking Spaces to visit in New York
Hi Tony, I did some searching and I found the alleywatch article, it is a pretty good resource. Though your space may be larger than the one I am thinking about, I would love the opportunity to visit your space and if you are available talk with you. The amounts of coworking spaces here is intimidating! It's amazing how there are so many Coworking space in one place and we don't even have one! But I can understand, because New York is a much larger city. I am going to look up the places you suggested, I appreciate the recommendations. Thanks! Tabari On Tuesday, December 23, 2014 6:59:38 AM UTC-8, Tony Bacigalupo wrote: Hey Tabari! You're always welcome to stop by and check out my space, New Work City: http://nwc.co NYC has so many spaces now, with new ones opening all the time, so it can be a little intimidating. For spaces of roughly that size or a little larger, off the top of my head, you could check out: Projective Space, Grind, Bat Haus, Impact Hub, Centre for Social Innovation, St. Lydia's Dinner Church, Con Artist Collective, Secret Clubhouse, Orbital, Makeshift Society, Neuehouse, Alley NYC, Wix Lounge, Paragraph... I can link you to any of these if you have trouble finding them. You can also see pretty photos of a whole bunch of NYC-area spaces here: http://www.alleywatch.com/2014/01/the-complete-guide-to-coworking-in-nyc/ Cheers! Tony *-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ Keep in touch: Twitter http://twitter.com/tonybgoode • Facebook http://facebook.com/tonybacigalupo • Subscribe to my blog http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=tonybacigalupo+ Projects: NWC http://nwc.co/ • Meetup http://meetup.com/coworking-nyc • NYTM http://nytm.org/* *+ Travel: NYC 12/15-? • Miami 1/27-?* *-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-* On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 1:04 AM, Tabari Brannon tkbr...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Hi all. I will be in New York this week. I am looking to visit a few coworking spaces. Are there Any spaces you would recommend I visit preforably ones 4000sq ft - 5000 sq ft. I am particularly interested in how the space is configured. Thank you in advance for your recomendations! Tabari -- 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+...@googlegroups.com javascript:. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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.
Re: [Coworking] Starting a new coworking space while employed fulltime
It's tricky. I did it, but I had a partner. Without Susan, it would have played out very differently. There are just so many layers that need your attention that presence is required, not just physically, but mentally. The first few years (or more) are figuring out your processes. Even if you adopt those of others, you still need to wrap your mind around them. That means every little thing, like buying paper towels for example, is also a dozen other things like deciding where you buy your supplies? Do you pick them up or have them delivered? Where do you store them? How much do you buy? Do you want paper towels or cloth towels? And there are a million little things so that adds up fast. And operations things like that are an order of magnitude easier then the REAL work of running a coworking space: being present for your members. Sure when everything is running smoothly people get along and everyone pitches in... but things don't always run smoothly. And when they don't, it's your problem right then, right now, and odds are you are busy doing something else for your full-time job. If someone wants you to hold their hand setting up the printer, it doesn't really matter that you have a deadline. If someone is having a rough day and needs someone to talk to, you want to be there for them. It's important. If one member decides the radio should be at a higher volume and another decides it needs to be at a lower volume, it's in your best interest to negotiate that quickly and quietly before it blows up in to something big. You might miss the signs until it's too late if you have your head in your other job. And all that is just keeping the lights on and people happy. You still need to reach out to the larger community and bring people in. Lots to think about. I'm most protective over the softer things as it's easy to overlook and just hope for the best. Jacob On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 6:18 AM, Jason Phelps jpphe...@gmail.com 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. -- 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.
Re: [Coworking] Can we talk about bank fees?
Yeah that seems high. On $1500 I'd expect $50-75 in fees. We currently use USAePay+ACCPC+CheckGateway and it's about 2.1%. When you process more and you've been around longer, the rates go down. Your services probably give you more then you are asking for... some funky feature they think warrants the added fees. They should at least throw in a Christmas turkey. But yes, it's all kinda crazy. The reason for it is that there are a lot of middle-men taking a cut along the way. I could dig in to the details but it would make your head spin even more. I'm currently exploring the idea of starting our own payment gateway where all the proceeds go towards coliving and coworking movements. If we can add a layer where our members are voting with their payments then we have a revenue stream, a communication channel, and direction. Combine this with something like Copass and things get really interesting really fast. If anyone is interested in exploring this with me, please let me know. But sorry Jensen none of this would be ready in time for your needs. Switch to stripe and move on. You'll recoup the $500 soon enough. Jacob On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 7:42 AM, Alex Hillman dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com wrote: Oh wow, your fees are way too high. Kill that contract! Standard fees are closer to 2.9% + 25-30 cents per transaction. Even when you factor in all of the tools to work with a decent processor like Stripe or Braintree, the max you're gonna pay is 5%ish. Even PayPal (which sucks for lots of other reasons and I would not recommend using) is 2.9%. The biggest additional benefit to using Stripe is that your account is portable. It also manages recurring subscriptions and, when you get a bit bigger, plug into awesome business analytics tools like Baremetrics.io and FirstOfficer.io that are built JUST for stripe. For actually managing memberships and subscriptions, do some googling around for stripe membership subscriptions and see which option fits your needs. You can get things that are out of the box like Memberful, or things that are super duper customizable like GravityForms for Wordpress + the 3rd party Gravity Forms stripe plugin (that's what we do. It's not perfect but it gives us the control we wanted). Do some homework before choosing again, but you're DEFINITELY overpaying now! -Alex -- *The #1 mistake in community building is doing it by yourself.* Join the list: http://coworkingweekly.com Listen to the podcast: http://listen.coworkingweekly.com On Tuesday, Dec 23, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Jensen Yancey jensen.yan...@gmail.com, wrote: I don't know about everyone else, but since I've opened a coworking office, one of the most mysterious and difficult-to-wrap-my-head-around concepts has been why the hell am I getting charged so much for accepting credit cards and where is it all going. In our scramble to get open in time, we signed on with First Data, Wells Fargo recommended them so what could go wrong? This month, we billed $1435 through first data, from that, we were charged a $48.55 bankcard discount fee, a $23.87 Bankcard interchange fee, and a 53.89 Bankcard Fee. First data is incredibly unhelpful, but I've managed to figure out that the discount fee is just what they charge us, the interchange fee is what the credit card charges us, but what the hell is the Bankcard fee? Also, most beguilingly of all, It's been slowly going down while our other two fees have been going up. I knew it would be a little pricy, but it seems absolutely insane that we're paying nearly 10% of our revenue out to these companies. It's going to cost us $500 to break the contract and I'm totally on board with doing it, but is there a much better solution? -- 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. -- 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. -- 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.
