I’ve been coworking at various spaces in San Francisco. I am now at the HUB SF. The HUB is interesting because it has a lot of non-tech companies and it also has an accelerator (Hub Ventures). The HUB is big about community and getting people to collaborate. At first, I thought it’s easy to get people to communicate and there are a lot of free tools out there. I have discovered this is not true. Coworkers value the coworking community where they work. Founders are more inclined to answer questions from another founder at the same space. 500 Startups and Y Combinator have their own internal collaboration platforms for their portfolio companies, such as www.dashboard.io.
For the past few years, we have been developing a platform to cluster local businesses in neighborhoods. Our environment is very similar to coworking spaces - many companies clustered together. Our platform empowers the companies to collaborate, to organize events, to ask questions and answers. The platform includes membership management and payment. This is how we run our business. We support multiple membership plans, companies can change plan in the middle of a subscription period. We have online invoicing where we can charge other services or made invoice adjustments. Recently, we have customized our platform for Coworking Space. You can read about it at www.coworkingdashboard.com. The features include -- Event Calendar – where companies can also post their events -- Company Profile -- Team Members controlled by the company -- Discussion Forum with email subscription managed by MailChimp and posting restricted to only team members. A team member can also post to affiliate working spaces (good for alliance) -- Membership management with AutoPay payment. -- Buy Day Pass and Meeting Room. Register Day Pass guest and schedule room. -- Mail and package notification and pickup. Ours is a white-label solution. So, you’ve your own URL and branding. You manage your email lists on MailChimp. Payment is managed by Stripe. You get paid directly via your own Stripe account. We are looking for pilot coworking spaces. Contact me if you are interested. I will be at GCUC Austin next week. Catch me, if you want to see a demo. -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
