Welcome to San Francisco, Johnny. You're in the home of one of the world's densest collections of coworking spaces, including some of the pioneering communities and others with a wide variety of innovative approaches, including branches of some of the first multi-location coworking chains.
While I'd love to don my Coworking Coach <http://www.CoworkingCoach.com/>-man's hat and offer you a guided tour in person to help you on your path to launching your own space, I'm still in Brussels in the wake of the fabulously successful Coworking Europe conference that ended yesterday, where Office Nomads' Jacob Sayles (from Seattle) and I didn't even attempt to outdrink a coworking space founder from Moscow last night, and I and won't make it back in time to be of in-person assistance, so I offer you this brief guide to some you can conveniently visit while you're in town, all within a mile of one another: - *Citizen Space* is one of the first in the area. While they're no longer in their original small space upstairs (perhaps we can make it into a museum), the much-larger ground-level space (on Second Street next to the Bay Bridge) has been thriving over the past year. - *Sandbox Suites*, on Tenth at Mission, has more of a retail frontage/business focus and features a variety of meeting/event spaces; be sure to see the diner-style group-coworking space in the "annex" out back. They also have a new space at Union Square. - *pariSoma Innovation Loft*, nearby on Howard street, has been highlighting events and building community, with a French accent, for quite some time. - *The Hub*, on Mission at 5th in the SF Chronicle building, built on the European model for supporting social entrepreneurs; I'm a member, although my coworking home base is the downtown Berkeley branch, a 5-minute bike ride from home. There are many other spaces, some with specific communities of interest and markets served, listed on the San Francisco page<http://wiki.coworking.info/w/page/16583935/SanFranciscoCoworking>on the coworking wiki (which, as with all wikis, it is your responsibility to update as you develop more information, discover they're closed, or the like). I'm not even including hacker spaces like NoiseBridge here. And don't forget that a short subway ride or drive away are many fine spaces in the East Bay, including The Hub and Sandbox Suites in downtown Berkeley, Berkeley Coworking about a mile to the South near Ashby BART, and TechLiminal in downtown Oakland. And if you're heading down the Peninsula towards Silicon Valley, there are even more options. Enjoy your visit, get inspired, and let's connect when we're both back in the same time zone; I'll actually be in SoCal in early December, but probably no further south than L.A. Raines Cohen, Your Coworking Coach <http://www.CoworkingCoach.com/> On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 9:39 AM, JohnnyTico <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm visiting San Francisco through Wednesday and wanted to visit some > successful co-working spaces? Can anyone recommend some to look at? > I'm interested in starting one in San Diego and am interested in > seeing what works. -- 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.
