Yes! 1) Low interest loans, say $100K, that can be written down 20% per year for donation of space to non-profits, government and community group usage. We've got some reports showing public benefits of coworking spaces. (Email me if you want them.) 2) Since benefits are really split about ⅓-⅓-⅓ between personal, corporate and public, provide a portion of the startup capital outright for TI's, that the center would have to find otherwise. 3) They have lists of all the home-based businesses in the area. Survey them to see what their needs are. (We've got a list of survey questions.) I'll stop there…
Barbara The Satellite On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 4:50:12 PM UTC-8, lhtorres wrote: > > Hello hello! > > We've got great pow up here in the northeast as we watch the festivities > in Sochi - feeling pretty good to be the home of snowboarding and > slopestyle talent right now! Hope all my fellow coworking colleagues are > having a good time with the Olympics too. > > So, again, want to state my thanks for all the help folks here provided on > the development of the coworking guide we put out last year - we've really > seen a spike in interest, with plenty of opportunities to offer insight and > support since the report, "Coworking in Vermont: A Starter Guide" went up ( > http://local64.com/coworking). > > And with this success, we have state interest: the Vermont legislature > would really like to do something to help coworking spaces get up and > running. They recognize the value coworking spaces can bring to our > historic downtowns on many levels. > > And I have to confess: I don't entirely know what to tell them. My story > is about bootstrapping, and how the biggest incentive I found would be the > ability to write down ALL my startup expenses for furniture and equipment > year one instead of amortization. BUT since that's not going to happen... > > Any ideas on state supports or incentives for coworking that could flow to > the entrepreneur, not the landlord or developer (sometimes they are the > same but it seems rare. And there are other state tax credits for historic > buildings, etc). Fishing for ideas and best practices. > > Thank you. Peace - > --- > Lars Hasselblad Torres > local64.com | create + play + share > > Snag our weekly newsletter here: http://ow.ly/gRyRo > > @local64vt | 802-595-0605 > > -- 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.
