WeWork moving to Seattle has been a good thing. They spend more money/energy throwing the word coworking around then we ever have and provide services we don't care to offer. They work better for bigger teams (4+) or individuals requiring private offices. Also, they fully participate in the Seattle Collaborative Space Alliance. I think they are good people. If anything Regus should be worried, not us.
Thank you for the back story. It's great to see how everyone gets started. Jacob On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 5:23 AM, Tom Brandt <twbra...@gmail.com> wrote: > There are two big-box hardware stores near me - Lowes and Home Depot - but > I still go to the local hardware store because they frequently have, order, > or can make, some obscure thing that the big boxes don't, and the people > working there are very knowledgeable about all things hardware and > home-maintenance related. > > I think that smaller, independent coworking communities can offer a more > personalized experience than big coworking can. Independent communities are > better able to adapt their communities to the character of the particular > community than spaces that are part of a larger organization. > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 4:44 AM, Jeannine <flexkantoorkame...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I think that once you put 6 zeros after anything, everybody goes crazy. >> >> I am glad for the attention, high tide raises all ships and, as Alex >> points out, Regus has been more co-opted than it has been dominant in >> relation to coworking. Before you know it, WeWork will also be applying to >> get on the Wiki and so on, just like Regus. :-). Though not yet, they are >> still in the own sandbox model and who knows, they may stay there. >> >> A number of sectors are shifting in the face of the ideas around the >> sharing economy and office space is one of them. And as with the others >> there are policy issues to be worked out and so on. The dark sides of the >> sharing economy include of course exploitation and the black market. This >> is also not different with coworking. As Big Coworking develops I expect >> to see these kinds of problems addressed faster than they would have >> without it, so that is helpful. >> >> One of the things I would like to see is a real cradle to grave approach >> for coworking; at this moment most people think of it as a nice place to >> start until you get to be a real business when you get your own space. And >> I expect that Big Coworking will change that. >> >> >> >> On Monday, November 17, 2014 9:16:07 PM UTC+1, Steve King wrote: >>> >>> Fascinating - and eye popping - numbers on WeWork in the Forbes article >>> Inside the Phenomenal Rise of WeWork >>> <http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2014/11/05/the-rise-of-wework/> >>> >> -- >> 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/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > twb > member, Workantile <http://workantile.com/> > @twbrandt > > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- 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/d/optout.
