[Coworking] Re: The Right to “Cowork”: Free Coworking!
Hi Marius, just a small correction to the my first answer: I did not mean blankspaces, but gangplank http://gangplankhq.com/ , sorry! Apologies to everyone concerned! Greetings, Felix Am Samstag, 31. Januar 2015 12:26:43 UTC+1 schrieb Felix Schürholz: Hi Marius, very good question! Quick answer: Yes conference rooms is a good start. I would call it a mix calculation. You offer some free and some paid coworking. The one kind of subsidieses the other. But it is not one way. Once free coworking picks up in your space, the social capital generated there, will then subsidies the paid part and so on. To start free coworking afresh, you have various options, depending on the scale you want to operate at. Starting small, you can do it in your own home like Lori Kane did http://www.shareable.net/blog/free-coworking-growing-rapidly-fueled-by-open-collaboration or Hoffice in Sweden show right now http://www.fastcoexist.com/3041322/hoffice-turns-your-apartment-into-a-free-and-incredibly-productive-coworking-space.The income you generate, is social capital at first that turns into financial capital as you generate more projects and turnover for yourself as an operator and your free coworkers. Going bigger, you can operate like blankspaces who receive local subsidies. You can work with smaller and bigger companies that sponsor parts or the whole of your space depending on what fits best. There are so many different ways to do it, the simple formula I believe is: Find the clients and customers of the services and products of your free coworkers and get them involved in financing your space! They can finance on a project base, a time base and so on... Maybe you like to get involved in the Free Coworking Challenge http://www.coworking-news.de/2015/01/the-free-coworking-challenge-it-is-very-easy-to-do/ so that we can set up a professional platform that helps every free coworking operator to organize free coworking and generate income from offering free coworking. Greetings, Felix Am Freitag, 30. Januar 2015 11:40:10 UTC+1 schrieb Marius Amado-Alves: How would a free coworking space get income (to pay rent, manager, etc.) ? I see some sites rent the conference rooms, is that it? Thanks a lot. -- 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: The Right to “Cowork”: Free Coworking!
Thanks a lot for the wealth of information. Very useful. I get it now. Mostly old things under new names but I get it. I was born in 1963 (age 51). I recall in the 1970's-1980's when most of us, my buddies and I, were students we would do exactly what is now called jellies and hoffices. We would gather and study (which is work) or work in professional projects (I would do this, I was a programmer). Also interesting how you picture the space/community manager(?) as a commercial facilitator, the middle man: another age-old thing. Personally I envisage one or more of the coworkers playing that role (for the others), not the space manager. I get the idea of social capital, and I agree it is a thing of immense value, but strikes me as a very hard thing to trade, or market, or monetise. The old way is through commissions, or a commercial margin, but then we fall back in the old ways, and will not progress. I see the new way is the intangible notion that increasing the value of the community will entail an increase of (paid) utilization of the space/resources. Maybe that's the trick (also old as such), but very hard to capture as a business model. /* Since I'm rambling so much I shoud explain: I am an infrequent coworker of paid coworking spaces, a more frequent coworker at jellies (some organized by myself), because now I'm on a low income, and a prospective coworking space manager at a small town, which business I find very hard to start, e.g. banks won't fund it. I am an unemployed software engineer, linguist, composer. I am trying to redefine my coworking space business plan. I find coworking very complex, difficult to plan and as a business, difficult to present as a business to stakeholders--they don't know the word or the concept. I have been trying to grow a community--very difficult too in a small town (Vila do Conde, Portugal) */ Thanks a very great lot. -- 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: The Right to “Cowork”: Free Coworking!
Hi Marius, very good question! Quick answer: Yes conference rooms is a good start. I would call it a mix calculation. You offer some free and some paid coworking. The one kind of subsidieses the other. But it is not one way. Once free coworking picks up in your space, the social capital generated there, will then subsidies the paid part and so on. To start free coworking afresh, you have various options, depending on the scale you want to operate at. Starting small, you can do it in your own home like Lori Kane did http://www.shareable.net/blog/free-coworking-growing-rapidly-fueled-by-open-collaboration or Hoffice in Sweden show right now http://www.fastcoexist.com/3041322/hoffice-turns-your-apartment-into-a-free-and-incredibly-productive-coworking-space.The income you generate, is social capital at first that turns into financial capital as you generate more projects and turnover for yourself as an operator and your free coworkers. Going bigger, you can operate like blankspaces who receive local subsidies. You can work with smaller and bigger companies that sponsor parts or the whole of your space depending on what fits best. There are so many different ways to do it, the simple formula I believe is: Find the clients and customers of the services and products of your free coworkers and get them involved in financing your space! They can finance on a project base, a time base and so on... Maybe you like to get involved in the Free Coworking Challenge http://www.coworking-news.de/2015/01/the-free-coworking-challenge-it-is-very-easy-to-do/ so that we can set up a professional platform that helps every free coworking operator to organize free coworking and generate income from offering free coworking. Greetings, Felix Am Freitag, 30. Januar 2015 11:40:10 UTC+1 schrieb Marius Amado-Alves: How would a free coworking space get income (to pay rent, manager, etc.) ? I see some sites rent the conference rooms, is that it? Thanks a lot. -- 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: The Right to “Cowork”: Free Coworking!
How would a free coworking space get income (to pay rent, manager, etc.) ? I see some sites rent the conference rooms, is that it? Thanks a lot. -- 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.
