Hidden option C: you find a community in need, or start building your own. :)
Without people, you're opening an empty room. Not only does that mean eating costs for a while, it means that people are less likely to want to join because it's an empty room and if they wanted an empty room they could stay home or work from any other isolating location. Not to mention that if you're considering crowdfunding, you've gotta have a crowd to start with :) NYC is particularly difficult with high rents and an already huge and growing set of Coworking options. Who do you think isn't being served that needs YOUR Coworking space, wherever it ends up being? -Alex P.s. This is probably my most popular blog post, and it talks more about this quandary. You're FAR from alone in asking! http://dangerouslyawesome.com/2011/09/how-to-fund-your-coworking-space/ On Wednesday, September 30, 2015, Daron Jenkins <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok..so I have never looked at real estate (outside of renting an > apartment) so I have what possibly could be a dumb question. > > We're looking at real estate currently for a coworking space in NYC...Do > you find the space/location first or do you find/raise the money first? > Kind of a chicken or the egg question. > > My thoughts when I originally came up with this idea was to look at spaces > that fit our need first to get an idea of how much $$$ we're needing to > raise and to get an idea of what the sq footage looked like, THEN, raise > the funding (crowdfunding, private raise, sponsors, etc.). > > Thoughts? > > > -- > 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] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','coworking%[email protected]');> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- ------------------ *The #1 mistake in community building is doing it by yourself.* Join the list: http://coworkingweekly.com Listen to the podcast: http://dangerouslyawesome.com/podcast -- 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.
