Hi, I'm Susan and I'm working on putting together a co-working space for digital designers in NYC. Im a 2006 Animation graduate of The School of Visual Arts and since graduating have always missed those crazy productive days of working alongside my peers round the clock on projects in the digital composition labs at school. I bandied about the idea of a co-working space (before I knew what it was called) with peers until a friend introduced me to Lila of New York City's "Paragraph" -the writing co-working space. Once I spoke with her and saw that such a space could work in reality I knew I needed to put one together for my field; computer graphics. I researched, wrote a business plan and got involved with the SBA. All of these things were new to me but manageable -the hard part was finding the financial backing. I learned a lot about investors, bootstrap funding and networking and secured funding at the end of April. Since then I've tackled New York City Commercial Real Estate. This too was a new experience but I'm cautiously enthusiastic I've found a spot to move forward. The rest of getting the space going will mainly be adapting the space, purchasing the equipment and software and setting it up. Having worked in Animation and Live Action production I'm no stranger to calling around, talking to and organizing people to get things done. Having never run my own business I'm more nervous about setting membership prices to encourage a thriving co-working culture but at the same time keep the doors open with NYC rent and the huge prices of graphic software. I'm so glad to have found this Google group. Any tips and suggestions would be most welcome. Susan
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