Robert, Thank you for this post and all the insight that followed from others. I am the facilitator of this panel and you can expect an email from me in 2 minutes.
Keeva On Wednesday, August 28, 2013 11:54:36 PM UTC-4, Robert Petrusz wrote: > > > http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-14/waiting-for-the-accelerator-bubble-to-pop > > At the upcoming "Triangle Entrepreneurship Week" there is a panel > presentation on "Co-working in the Triangle". The panelists are all > accelerators or incubators. None of the local coworking spaces are invited > to participate. > > Here is something I apparently worry about more than other coworking space > owners: last I heard there were almost 700 incubators in America. > "Incubators" are now not so cool anymore, so lots of folks seem to be > switching to an "acclerator model". Its not clear that they will do any > better than incubators that failed. > > Is anyone else worried that SEVEN HUNDRED incubators & accelerators in > america could suddenly decide that they need to become coworking spaces?! > There are also about 700 coworking spaces in america. Imagine a world where > every single coworking space was suddenly competing with an > incubator/accelerator that was funded by the local city/chamber of > commerce/university/VC community. > > These new entrants can cause lots of trouble, especially in small markets > where they can outspend a small coworking space by a factor of 10, easily. > > Anyone else pondering these types of issues? > > Robert > Bull City Coworking > -- 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.
