For the past year, I've been the only person working to open a cowork space in our community (425,000 ppl in a county north of Austin).
Within the past 2 months, four people have become interested in coworking and one has opened. The four are or will run their own business from the cowork space. Their reasons to offer coworking are: - bring people like them into their space (the product designer and the app developer) - bring in potential clients (the pre-incubator/marketing guy) - share the costs of the space (woman owner/non-profit executive/Meetup guru); It appears that I'm the only one whose coworking is their business and I don't have a business on the side. How does coworking and community differ when the owner runs their own business from that space? I know it's possible and successful, but wonder how I can effectively talk to others who want to do the same thing when my path wasn't the same. I feel I'm the only 'open source' for coworking in our area. My community directs people to me (or I find them) and then I chat them up. Perhaps this is how coworking will grow in our community? Interesting to watch it happen. Thanks -- 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.
