Ok..so..I hear this word community a lot and I ask, what does that mean? As in...having a community can mean a lot of things. It can mean creating an online social network (or forum much like this!) where you gather supporters. It can mean a mailing list where you can continually communicate and share with members. It can mean hosting regular in person meetings/mixers with actual people. Being that I have a little of all of that, wondering...what is a best strategy for building this community? I find that gathering people is easy...evangelizing them (which I think is really the key to successful crowdfunding) is hard.
Any thoughts? On Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at 11:59:43 AM UTC-4, Eric Lituchy wrote: > > I am new to the Cowork world and find this group to be an amazing > resource. Thanks in advance! > > In July, I am opening a coworking space on Long Island. I am currently > working on building the community and already have 6 people onboard. I > thought of raising some capital from friends and family, but started to > think that crowdfunding (Indiegogo, Plumfund, etc.) might be a better > option. Capital will be used for rent, furniture, technology, etc. > > My questions: > > 1. Does crowdfunding make sense as a way to fund a startup coworking > space? My primary goal of the crowdfunding would be to get new members > to invest in our community. > 2. I expect to offer membership deals(ex. Contribute $1000 and get > 3-months of cowork space), "Hardship" contributions to give out-of-work > individuals free coworking space and media/press mentions for larger > contributions. Any thoughts on this? Other ideas? > 3. Any potential pitfalls of going the crowdsourced route? > > Any additional advice is sincerely appreciated. > > Thank, Eric > Long Island Cowork (Finaly name TBD) > -- 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.
