The short answer is: very well. :) Honestly, it depends on how you operate your space. All I can speak to is our experience.
Ispent the first year able to operate the space while running my business because we involved the community heavily in the operation of the space. By treating it like a clubhouse, where every member has a vested interest in the space they inhabit, rather than a service-oriented facility, we were able to do a LOT more without killing any one (or two) person's productivity. At ~1 year, we were more busy handling membership and day-to-day operations, and it made sense for me to offload that work on to someone else. We brought on an office manager, who worked part time for IndyHall, part time for me (as a personal assistant), and the rest of the time she was able to explore other aspects of work at IndyHall. She took to an opportunity to provide customer support for a couple of the products/businesses operated here, and has since grown a successful small business for herself while working for me and IndyHall. So much so that after a year or so of THAT workflow, we brought on 2 interns to take some of the day-to-day off of her, and the majority of what she does for us now is making sure the interns are busy and focused, making sure members are happy, organizing events, and doing our monthly invoicing. More about that in this post: http://www.indyhall.org/blog/2009/08/06/how-indyhall-got-the-best-office-manager-without-hiring-an-office-manager/ Me? I've gone from doing most of the ops management to very little of it simply by delegating to the "staff" as well as the community. It's hardly a full time job, though. I still sign the checks. I still work with the book keeper every month. I still field the calls when something bad happens. I still talk to the press. I still work with Geoff to keep the vision of IndyHall strong and focused. Which brings me to another point: having a partner who *doesn't* work in the space has been valuable at times, because he's able to see operations issues from an "outside" point of view. That's come in handy more than once. We still communicate regularly and make decisions together, but neither of us need to be IN the space every day, and its rare for us both to be in the space at the same time. Hope this helps! -- ----- -- ----- Alex Hillman im always developing something digital: [email protected] helpful: www.unstick.me visual: www.dangerouslyawesome.com local: www.indyhall.org On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Cadu de Castro Alves < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, people! > > I don't open my space yet, but I'm thinking about the time to manage the > space. > I'll run my own company in the space. > How do you divide the time between managing the space and work? > > []'s, > > Cadu de Castro Alves > Web Developer > Blue Factory Solutions > Mobile: +55 21 7841-5020 / ID: 23*34315 > > -- > 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]<coworking%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > -- 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.
