[Coworking] Launching Well (Not Screwing Up)!

2012-10-03 Thread John Saddington
We're super excited to be moving forward strongly with a new space in Atlanta, GA. For those interested, here's a preview of the space: http://tentblo.gs/opencopreview We're in historic downtown with a parking deck attached. I'm moving the core team (my startup team) into the space this week

[Coworking] Re: A New Journal on Work Place

2012-10-03 Thread ShannonSkylightCoworking
Cool, thanks for sharing! I enjoyed the article regarding artwork in the workplace. I just brought on a resident artist who will be decorating our walls for our soft launch and grand opening this month. Her paintings are clean, colorful, and energized. I can't wait to enjoy her final

RE: [Coworking] Launching Well (Not Screwing Up)!

2012-10-03 Thread Dirk Onderdonck
John, Very nice I really like it J Congrats Some reflections Q1 : don't be to cheap but keep in mind that your greatest competitor is at home for free Q2 : your space design will do this for you. The love or hate of your visitors will make them decide. Q3 : My mistake : Trying to sell my

Re: [Coworking] Launching Well (Not Screwing Up)!

2012-10-03 Thread Alex Hillman
Dirk's answers kick ass. Heed them well. Also, it sounds like you're launching a space with some uncertainty of who you're launching it for other than a vague answer of startups. One common mistake I've seen in this case of having space but not people is shopping while hungry.

Re: [Coworking] Launching Well (Not Screwing Up)!

2012-10-03 Thread John Saddington
Alex, No, we've done our persona(s) study and I've built one of my previous startups in a coworkign environment. it works. that's the type of philosophy I want to bring to Atlanta (previous one was in between the valley and austin). We have an idea and we have the vision. i'm now looking at

Re: [Coworking] Launching Well (Not Screwing Up)!

2012-10-03 Thread John Saddington
oh, I might add (love your blog post, already read it ... as i've read most of your stuff by now!) that I already have a startup team that needed the space. that's what i love about our idea - dogfooding this thing to success. my startup team loves to collaborate with other teams and it was

Re: [Coworking] Launching Well (Not Screwing Up)!

2012-10-03 Thread Alex Hillman
Be careful - persona studies are great for the idea, but personas don't pay memberships - people do! It's easy to notice the artifacts of a Coworking space while working there without realizing why they are there. There's also a lot of the experience that's subtle but has a huge impact on

Re: [Coworking] Re: A New Journal on Work Place

2012-10-03 Thread Mark Gilbreath
All, I've spent quite a bit of time with Jim Ware (he's the publisher of Work Place) over the past year at workplace conferences and think tank sessions . I'd be very happy to make introductions to Jim for anyone who is keen to explore submitting perspective and/or content to Jim. I know that

[Coworking] Color Printer Recommendations for Coworking

2012-10-03 Thread Launch Pad Katy
Hi Everyone- My name is Katy and I'm the community manager of an awesome coworking place called Launch Pad http://www.launchpadnola.com in the beautiful city of New Orleans. We have about 100 members and 3 shared printers. 2 of them are heavy duty machines but our only color printer is a Dell

[Coworking] There's Never Only One Community

2012-10-03 Thread Alex Hillman
The discussion the other day about subdividing the google group (see here:https://groups.google.com/d/topic/coworking/JjLgygNq0ME/discussion) and Coworking Associations had me thinking more about the models of graceful fragmentation and the positive ways to approach this. I wrote a post about

Re: [Coworking] Color Printer Recommendations for Coworking

2012-10-03 Thread Bill Ries-Knight
FWIW, I am a printer tech. Have you tried to install a maintenance kit? the cost is likely $300 to $500 to have a tech do it, and you can find one at amazon for less to install yourself. http://www.amazon.com/3110CN-3115CN-Maintenance-Includes-310-8730/dp/B005HEYINE This might resolve the