Re: [Coworking] Coworking in Petaluma CA
I'm not super familiar with the backstory behind SoCoDepot (or bzhive) other than the info on the wiki. I can say that having lived in Sonoma County, I would guess that the correct implementation of a coworking group has enormous potential. Walk into the back room at Aroma Roasters in Santa Rosa any day and you can see several people pecking away at laptops (and not Facebook). There are a some solid communities in user groups and other community groups that would be great to reach out to. As awesome as Sonic.net is for internet service, they don't reach out to the boonies of west county, and those folks could be prime candidates for being a part of a coworking community. Santa Rosa JC has 30,000 students per year last time I heard, and many of these people stay and work and open small businesses in the area. All this tells a great story of potential. Hit me up if you want to circulate some info, I still have friends and contacts in the area and I'd be happy to pass along word of meetups/jellies to some web developer types. I'm super excited for you! Shenoa -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/coworking/-/0biX203yGmAJ. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
Re: [Coworking] Coworking in Petaluma CA
While doing your due diligence, be sure to read everything you can find about SoCoDepot – formerly of Penngrove, CA. Anthony Tusler is a great resource and a font of info re. coworking and the north bay. He may just have been ahead of the times, but definitely worth reading his thoughts on why the space in Sonoma just couldn't get enough traction to survive. And as you probably already know, start with jellies and meetups and *confirm* that there is indeed a community need! Hillary On Oct 11, 2011, at 2:18 PM, Kate@CO2 katerb...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all! I've been poking around here for the last couple months, and finally joined and am staking my ground, as it were. I have done some preliminary research on the coworking market in the Bay Area, and find that while there are a lot of lovely spaces in San Fran and the East Bay, there is no such community here in the North Bay. As a freelancer with a lot of independent friends and acquaintances who don't want to commute into the city, I believe this could work well here, both as a community and as a business. This town has a population of 55,000, with other neighboring towns that might join in as well (20 minutes north there is a 100K plus city, an even longer commute from SF). I want to start working on a business plan to secure funding, but I'm partly not sure who to look at as a model -- the big spaces in the big city are much larger than we'd be... If anyone has any advice or direction for me, I'd love to hear it. Thank you! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
Re: [Coworking] Coworking in Petaluma CA
Another North Bay space that had to close: bzhive in San Rafael. I think coworking in the north bay/suburbs could work, but I'm pretty sure the typical membership model would need to be tweaked. My gut tells me that you'd rely much more on drop-in members than 5-days-a-week desk renters. People seem to want a place that they can go and get shit done with the amenities of an office... but the desk renters you see in cities are probably fewer. Again, totally speculative on my part. Hillary -former space owner and Marin resident On Oct 11, 2011, at 2:18 PM, Kate@CO2 katerb...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all! I've been poking around here for the last couple months, and finally joined and am staking my ground, as it were. I have done some preliminary research on the coworking market in the Bay Area, and find that while there are a lot of lovely spaces in San Fran and the East Bay, there is no such community here in the North Bay. As a freelancer with a lot of independent friends and acquaintances who don't want to commute into the city, I believe this could work well here, both as a community and as a business. This town has a population of 55,000, with other neighboring towns that might join in as well (20 minutes north there is a 100K plus city, an even longer commute from SF). I want to start working on a business plan to secure funding, but I'm partly not sure who to look at as a model -- the big spaces in the big city are much larger than we'd be... If anyone has any advice or direction for me, I'd love to hear it. Thank you! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
[Coworking] Coworking in Petaluma CA
Hello all! I've been poking around here for the last couple months, and finally joined and am staking my ground, as it were. I have done some preliminary research on the coworking market in the Bay Area, and find that while there are a lot of lovely spaces in San Fran and the East Bay, there is no such community here in the North Bay. As a freelancer with a lot of independent friends and acquaintances who don't want to commute into the city, I believe this could work well here, both as a community and as a business. This town has a population of 55,000, with other neighboring towns that might join in as well (20 minutes north there is a 100K plus city, an even longer commute from SF). I want to start working on a business plan to secure funding, but I'm partly not sure who to look at as a model -- the big spaces in the big city are much larger than we'd be... If anyone has any advice or direction for me, I'd love to hear it. Thank you! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
Re: [Coworking] Coworking in Petaluma CA
Hi Kate! This post might be helpful for you to find the balance between business and community: http://dangerouslyawesome.com/2011/09/how-to-fund-your-coworking-space/ -Alex /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Kate@CO2 katerb...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all! I've been poking around here for the last couple months, and finally joined and am staking my ground, as it were. I have done some preliminary research on the coworking market in the Bay Area, and find that while there are a lot of lovely spaces in San Fran and the East Bay, there is no such community here in the North Bay. As a freelancer with a lot of independent friends and acquaintances who don't want to commute into the city, I believe this could work well here, both as a community and as a business. This town has a population of 55,000, with other neighboring towns that might join in as well (20 minutes north there is a 100K plus city, an even longer commute from SF). I want to start working on a business plan to secure funding, but I'm partly not sure who to look at as a model -- the big spaces in the big city are much larger than we'd be... If anyone has any advice or direction for me, I'd love to hear it. Thank you! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
