That kicks ass, Jon. :) Congratulations on the milestone!
-- /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Jonathan Markwell < jonathan.markw...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's been a long journey (4 years, 7 months) but we'd like to share with > you that we've just reached 150 active members. With it comes a level of > community and financial stability that should allow us to continue to enjoy > working alongside a wide range of fantastic coworkers in our lovely central > Brighton space for the foreseeable future. > > The attached graph charts our growth from our accidental beginnings in a > 900 sq ft space at the end of 2008, through to moving to a 1,500 sq ft > space in mid 2010 and then expanding that space to 3,000 sq ft > the beginning of last year. Note we cut things very fine at times with our > income being not much beyond the base cost of our lease. We've found the > rule of thumb of 2.5 x lease cost is about right for achieving break-even. > We wouldn't have got to where we are now if it wasn't for the involvement > of local not-for-profit Wired Sussex (http://wiredsussex.com), they > helped cashflow some of the shortfall. > > We were inspired to keep going through the low times by much lurking in > this group and a visit to the Coworking meetup at sxsw in 2010. Thank you > for being such an awesome community! > > We feel a little more qualified to answer questions here now so please > fire away. :) > > Looking forward to meeting many of you at Coworking Europe, which it turns > out will be a week before The Skiff's 5th birthday. > > Best wishes, > > Jon & Anna Markwell > A home for your work in Brighton http://theskiff.org > > http://twitter.com/jot > http://twitter.com/AnnaMarkwell > > > > -- > Jonathan Markwell > > Software engineers with startup experience - > http://CoderFounders.com<http://coderfounders.com/> > A home for your work in Brighton - http://theSkiff.org<http://theskiff.org/> > > mob: +44 (0)7766 021 485 | tel: +44 (0)1273 252 191 > skype: jlmarkwell | twitter: http://twitter.com/jot > > -- > 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 coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- 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 coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
