Don't some of these brokers' offices already share offices in a sub-tenant kind of way? I designed a Keller Williams' office that consisted of micro-micro offices for agents who rent from the lead broker.
Jerome ______________ BLANKSPACES "work FOR yourself, not BY yourself" www.blankspaces.com ph: 323.330.9505 | 5405 Wilshire Blvd (2 blocks west of La Brea) Los Angeles, CA 90036 On Mar 18, 2012, at 1:37 PM, OC Houston wrote: > Great insight! I am a licensed real estate agent and had planned to > start my own firm targeting new agents specifically because training > is lacking in that area. Then, I realized that while I want to focus > on training and mentoring I don't necessarily need a brokerage for > that, and having one would actually limit my reach to only MY agents. > > We've taken Alex's advice regarding building a community before > "cutting the ribbon" so we're starting with what we know. I know there > is a need for training for new real estate agents. But, that training > must include basic business principles which is common to most start- > ups, entrepreneurs and small business owners. I figure if we start > were we are we can grow from there. I just don't want to get "stuck" > in a place that will inhibit innovation and creativity. > > So, we may be able to start by targeting real estate agents and/or > graphic artists (my husband's field) as long as we continue to focus > on diversifying the community. > > Toni > > On Mar 18, 2:13 pm, "[email protected]" > <[email protected]> wrote: >> While it depends on your definition of industry, based on our >> definition there are a lot of industry specific coworking facilities. >> In SF area alone examples include The Hub (social entrepreneurs), >> Writers Grotto (writers and media), Mission*Social (social >> entrepreneurs), Biocurious (biosciences) and many others. >> >> Also, many of the coworking spaces in the SF area are effectively tech >> industry spaces. It's just the nature of the bay area. And >> obviously, there are many vertical spaces elsewhere in the US and >> world. The rapid growth of collaborative kitchens across the US is >> another example. >> >> We see these spaces as industry mini-clusters. Industrial clusters >> are groups of similar or related firms in a defined geographic area >> that share common markets, technologies and worker skill needs, and >> which are often linked by buyer-seller relationships. Firms and >> workers in industry clusters benefit from the advantages that a shared >> base of sophisticated, industry specific knowledge brings. >> >> Silicon Valley in technology, New York in financial services and >> Detroit in automobiles are famous examples of large clusters. But >> small industrial clusters are also common. We think many of the >> vertically oriented coworking spaces exhibit many of the same benefits >> as industrial clusters. >> >> We've done a lot of work looking at coworking spaces that serve social >> entrepreneurs (we're hoping to get a paper out on this soon). We've >> found that social entrepreneurs in spaces catering to social firms >> collaborate more and report higher levels of business networking than >> social entrepreneurs that are members of other types of coworking >> spaces. We think this is due to the cluster effect. >> Having said that, we agree with Alex that diversity of skills, >> backgrounds, views and opinions are important. Clusters achieve this >> by having a mix of participants from across the industry supply and >> demand chains. Large clusters also benefit from the diverse nature of >> most broad industries. >> >> Coworking facilities achieve this by having people from different >> professions (designers, programmers, lawyers, etc.) and different >> skill sets. This brings strong weak tie benefits (yet another paper >> we're trying to finish). >> >> But we also think vertical coworking spaces could, at least in some >> cases, add additional value by bringing together people that are >> diverse by profession/skill set, but serve the same broad industry. >> >> Obviously, little work has been done on this topic. A lot more needs >> to be done before drawing strong conclusions. >> >> Steve >> >> On Mar 16, 1:11 pm, OC Houston <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> Does anyone have an industry specific coworking space? Or, does that >>> defeat the purpose of the concept? >> >>> Toni > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
