[Coworking] Re: Startups are upset with Coworking spaces around NYC!

2013-03-11 Thread Skid Vis
Wow, such a negative article. It reads like it was sponsored by Regus. :P -- 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

[Coworking] Re: Startups are upset with Coworking spaces around NYC!

2013-03-12 Thread Steve King
This is another sign coworking is growing up. Very early adopters tend to be very forgiving customers who don't complain much. They're just happy to have access to the new product or service. Because the product/service is new and customers are so happy, press at this industry stage tends to

[Coworking] Re: Startups are upset with Coworking spaces around NYC!

2013-03-24 Thread Brendan Alviani
Steve - very insightful comment. I knew on a gut level that coworking was getting past the early adopter stage, but your comment helps make that much clearer. However, I'd like to point out that the article is very much centered on New York City - I imagine that most places are a few years beh

Re: [Coworking] Re: Startups are upset with Coworking spaces around NYC!

2013-03-11 Thread Gavin Yip
Hi Skid, It depends on whether you see that as a glass half empty or half full. It just means operators have more chance to step up their game. It also serves very well for people like me who is prospecting the right set-up for a space that I can run. Objection brings opportunities - it is far be

Re: [Coworking] Re: Startups are upset with Coworking spaces around NYC!

2013-03-11 Thread Alex Hillman
Also: hyperbole = pageviews. There are a LOT of coworking spaces, and a LOT of startups. In any pool, you're bound to find some people who went in with uninformed expectations and left with a sour taste. One of the upsides to there being so much more usage is the ease of finding a broader rang

Re: [Coworking] Re: Startups are upset with Coworking spaces around NYC!

2013-03-11 Thread Gavin Yip
Great comment, Alex! Being able to reflect the way things done in the industry is a great way to move forward and build an even stronger foundation to reach for greater height! It counts on all of us to work collaboratively and do the right thing. Gavin On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Alex Hil

Re: [Coworking] Re: Startups are upset with Coworking spaces around NYC!

2013-03-11 Thread Tom Brandt
To Alex's point about business schools starting notice of coworking, a PhD student from the Michigan business school became a member of Workantile expressly to research coworking. Besides us, he has visited Seed in Toledo and hopes to visit Indyhall and several other coworking communities. I will

Re: [Coworking] Re: Startups are upset with Coworking spaces around NYC!

2013-03-11 Thread Alex Hillman
Oh, yeah. Graduate research is already ALL over this stuff, and from more fields of study than I could have ever imagined. In fact, one of our core team members joined to get "under the hood point of view" for her anthropology PhD research after studying us and the greater coworking commun