[Coworking] Re: Pausing membership?

2013-10-01 Thread Sean Qian
This is very interesting to me too. We're heading into the spring/summer months in Australia and it will be interesting to see the uptake (or lack thereof) of memberships. Looking forward to seeing your cancellation reasons, Alex. On Monday, September 30, 2013 1:11:39 PM UTC+10, Alex Linsker w

Re: [Coworking] Investors - where did you find yours?

2013-10-01 Thread Alex Hillman
Right on, Sharon! You're going to find that many investors aren't going to understand this model. If they're real estate investors, they will muddy your business model. If they're startup investors, they'll be looking for significant returns. At this point, you have two groups of people to convin

[Coworking] Investors - where did you find yours?

2013-10-01 Thread Sharon Schanzer
Hi all! I'm hard at work trying to find investors to make our NYC upper west side coworking space a reality. I'm wondering what the trend has been regarding fundraising and where I should focus my substantial but still limited energy. So far seem I've found people who are really interested but

Re: [Coworking] Re: Pausing membership?

2013-10-01 Thread Barbara Sprenger
Ramon, We have already developed software for running coworking spaces. We're using it for our 4 spaces and already have several other companies using it. (We're told it's the most robust available!) Putting an account on hold is a simple matter of just entering a note and setting the "Next Bil

[Coworking] Re: Coworking arrives in Sydney, Australia

2013-10-01 Thread smartofficeguy
We are just starting one up in CrowsNest, lets stay in touch.We would like to see your business one day. On Monday, 22 February 2010 17:55:48 UTC+11, andrew@co-worka wrote: > > Wow, we're nearly there. Its been a huge effort by lots of people over > here in Australia to open the first coworking s

[Coworking] Re: Pausing membership?

2013-10-01 Thread Ramon Suarez
Yes, it is part of our standard offering at Betacowork Coworking Brussels. We have had it since the very begining and it does add quite some administrative burden, plus a drop of about 15 members in July/August. We are developing our own software to manage the cowork

[Coworking] Coworking in Exurb -- TechSandBox in MetroWest MA

2013-10-01 Thread Barb Finer
We have opened a large innovation center with coworking space in BostonMetroWest. This means we're about 25 miles from the actual city where coworking isn't as understood or popular. Any other out there in a similar situation? Mostly middle-to-upper class professionals with a heavy bent on tec