RE: [Coworking] Re: Are you the Founder of a rural or tiny coworkingspace?

2018-12-03 Thread Wendy
Liz, I opened The Desk & Easel in Denison, TX, a town of just over 24k, in January of this year. I am located on Main Street and received active support from the Main Street Director as well as the Denison Development Alliance. I became a member then joined the board of the Downtown Denison In

Re: [Coworking] Re: Are you the Founder of a rural or tiny coworking space?

2018-12-03 Thread Brad Attig
Liz, Foundry Collective is a nonprofit whose mission is to create sustainable innovation hubs in small and rural communities. We have Corvallis Foundry, which at 50K population isn't small but we're looking to open in Lebanon, OR, population around 20K and Sweet Home, OR, population around 10K. We

Re: [Coworking] Re: Are you the Founder of a rural or tiny coworking space?

2018-12-03 Thread Martshal Kohn
Liz: I hate to troll you, but you might want to add "co-working" and it's varients too your spelling dictionary, especially if you're managing a coworking space. It will make your life much easier. (Although the original reading... cowering, it's rather awesome.) Mjk On Sun, Dec 2, 2018, 18:20

Re: [Coworking] Re: Are you the Founder of a rural or tiny coworking space?

2018-12-03 Thread Jamie Tyrell
I would really be interested in this model. I am currently doing a feasibility study around this exact email. Thanks Jamie On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 7:58 AM Scott Tillitt / BEAHIVE < sc...@beahivebzzz.com> wrote: > I opened my first BEAHIVE in early 2009 in a town of 15,000 and have had > (and am

[Coworking] Re: I hate a morgue feel (need a space with life)

2018-12-03 Thread Trevor Townsend
Thanks for the tip on sound masking - I'm checking that company and others for something like that. I think that in larger spaces having a nice sales-y background buzz is good, but would that working in smaller settings? My space is built up of rooms that are only 19'x22', 12'x13', and 9'x13'

[Coworking] Re: Accepting mail --Approved by USPS... But..

2018-12-03 Thread AK
So...now that we can accept mail --how do we charge? Do most of you include it in your monthly memberships? I know people like having a real street address. We're just getting our business started, so this could be an incentive for new members? I am aware of services that offer mail forwardi

[Coworking] Re: Are you the Founder of a rural or tiny coworking space?

2018-12-03 Thread Scott Tillitt / BEAHIVE
I opened my first BEAHIVE in early 2009 in a town of 15,000 and have had (and am planning) several locations in towns of around 25,000. I don't have official, ongoing partnerships with economic development groups, but I have ongoing conversations and events/initiatives with them (and have person