Yeah, I read a lot de posts of Alex actually he has a podcast now, did you hear about that? Thank you for sharing your advices =)
El domingo, 16 de noviembre de 2014 08:10:13 UTC-6, Steve Bercy escribió: > > Hi guys, > > I live in Martinique (French West Indies) in the caribbean. I arrived here > 3 years ago (from Paris) and people didn't know anything about > "coworking"...today, everything has changed. > My needs when I arrived was to meet people, not being alone like an hermit > because it was detrimental to my momentum (build my startup). > I realized that many local people needed this also so I've launched the > Jelly...to build the community, start the ecosystem. > The www.martiniqueworkatjelly.com is a monthly coworking session in my > house, I invite (free wifi, coffee, etc.) every single > enterprising/entrepreneur people to come to work, to discuss, to exchange > and to challenge their projects, idea, startups, companies. After 2 years, > the community is impressive (15~20 attendees each month, 300+ subscribers > for the monthly email invitations, 40% retention rate). > 88% of the martinicans entreprises are sole entrepreneur businesses so > they quickly understood the aim of coworking...as soon as they came to see > what it was. > I mean you can talk a lot about it (and hope it will sound to their > brain)...but you could invite them to see what you do or go to show them by > organizing meetups. This way they will live "the thing" from inside. > > I think you'll be inspired by reading the posts written by Alex : > http://dangerouslyawesome.com/ > > Let's share about our experiences :) > > ps : have a look to copass.org > > Steve > > On Sunday, November 16, 2014 2:52:09 AM UTC-4, NODO Cowork wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> We opened the first coworking space in Merida Yucatán. 3 months later >> another one came up and a few week later another came up (merida is a small >> city). The coworking movement in here is absolutly new. They have never >> heard of "coworking" or "networking" so we are kind of evangelizing in the >> desert. It is difficult, is a challenge but I love it. I think that the >> city has a "momentum" of coworking and enterpreneur movement. So I thought >> to unite with other other two spaces and communicate about COWORKING and >> importantce in the community. I am afraid that they don´t know what a >> coworking space is. I know they have never worked on one before, and it is >> difficult to understand coworking if you have never tried it or experienced >> it for a while. >> >> What would be your advices in this point? How can we collaborate? I don´t >> even know if we actually have the same vision.... I am not even sure if I >> should talk a lot (as I always do) or just sit down and listen. >> >> Anybody has come into a situation like this before? >> >> Thank you all >> >> TAM >> > -- 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/d/optout.
