Hi Lauren! Congrats and welcome to the wild world of coworking!
Tony's advise is simply perfect (as usual). I'd add: -I'll reiterate one of Tony's points first: as tedious as it might be, dig back into this listserv for old threads of helpful conversation - there are a TON of them, full of great thoughts and info. -Try not to get too far ahead of yourself. Don't create anything before there is a nice demand for it - you don't want to waste any time or energy in a direction that might not be needed to develop your space. Welcome again, and best of luck to you! Susan __ Office Nomads officenomads.com 206-323-6500 On Jun 22, 2:53 pm, Matt Titsworth <[email protected]> wrote: > Howdy Lauren, > > I'm one of the folks helping to run Company|Dallas over in Richardson, > and I have to say how delighted I am to hear about somebody wanting to > get a coworking spot going over in Fort Worth. I've run into a number > of people from that area who are interested in the idea. Feel free to > drop me a line about the specifics of coworking in DFW. I'd add to > what Tony has said above, but right now those are exactly the things > we're working on to get ourselves up to snuff. > > All the best, > Matthewhttp://www.companydallas.com > [email protected]http://www.twitter.com/companydallas > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Tony > > Bacigalupo<[email protected]> wrote: > > Welcome Lauren! > > Some Cliff's notes of advice: > > - Start one person at a time > > - Focus on people and community needs first, not space > > - Use a cafe or a house or otherwise free space as a staging area for your > > community > > - Consider starting a Jelly (http://workatjelly.com) > > - Hook up with as many other DFW-area communities as you can, including some > > folks who are already doing coworking there. > > - Be extra open and transparent in all that you do. Share photos, blog > > posts, tweets, and talk about what's good and what's hard. Engage people and > > get them involved. > > - Empower the would-be members of you community to take an active role in > > helping grow the community. You'll have more committed members and a lot > > more help :) > > - Read the messages in this group! > > Best of luck and keep us posted! > > > Cheers, > > Tony > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > New Work City - Coworking NYC style. > > Phone: (888) 823-3494 > > Email: [email protected] > > Web: http://nwcny.com > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/nwc > > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:53 PM, laurenw1021 <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Hi all, > > >> Just joined the group and am interested in starting a coworking space > >> in Fort Worth, TX. I was first introduced to the idea this past March > >> in Austin at SXSWi and find it refreshing and am passionate about > >> establishing a space for the Fort Worth community. For any of you out > >> there that have started your own space, what are some of your key > >> pieces of advice to get started? > > >> Thanks, > >> Lauren Smith > >> [email protected] > >> @laurenwsmith via twitter --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
