Steven, I like you wonder why the urgency of the sell/buy on the website name and who the other "almost" purchaser was/is? I am thrilled to get caught up today on the collaboration taking place to solidify the collective group of coworkers. Our local coworking community is slowly growing and building awareness in the Chattanooga, TN business community. We're holding bi-weekly Jelly! Chattanooga events that are also growing in attendance. We are very interested in networking with more coworking communities and collaborating to promote coworking to the general working public.
Alex, we appreciate your rally on this. Each coworking community is unique in its member demographics and ability to "instantaneously" raise funds. This line of thought brought up by Danielle Nicoli shines some interesting issues to consider as we push forward toward a more "common ground" for coworking communities. I think these issues should be brought up at SXSW. Forgive me, but is anyone going to stream online any of the coworking "discussion." I would be v-e-r-y interested along with the other coworking communities to participate in the "conversation." With all the geeks among us I would hope this would be possible....dreaming of being there. At your service, Denise Reed www.theconciergelevel.com 600 Republic Centre 633 Chestnut Street Chattanooga, TN 37450 On Feb 15, 8:45 pm, Steven Heath <[email protected]> wrote: > Last point I have been pondering.... who is this group that wanted to come> > in and make this buy? Why did they want it and why now? What was the > > urgency? > > 'We' had 3 days to decide if we could make an offer and buy this name. Alex > emailed about a dozen people which resulted in enough interest to 1, fund a > good hunk of the price and 2, allow a public post to secure the rest of the > monies. > > No one, and I mean no one, expected this money to be agreed and 70% > collected in 36 hours! > > The initial off list discussions resulted in messages about 'legal entity' > and 'value for money' and 'what the heck, better than some sleaze ball > having it'. > > Once it was decided to go after this name we (really Alex) had little time > to lose to get the pledges, put the offer in and then secure funds. > > I think the reason it worked is that we believe in the 'cause' and each > could afford a share of the funds to secure the domain name. Alex had the > idea, bunch of us agreed with him, agreed to support him in the approach and > here we are! > > -- > Steven Heath > Director, Foxbane Consulting > Founder, AltSpace > Cell: +64 21 706-067www.foxbane.co.nz > Level 22 > Plimmer Towers > 2 Gilmer Terrace > Wellington > > AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, > freelancers, or nimble companies -- 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.
