Hey Alex, thanks for sharing your plan! I love the idea of doing a hybrid; it's been done many times successfully and is generally a great way to help both businesses be more sustainable.
Your question about conflicts of interest is a common one; what it comes back to is simply fostering a culture of honesty and transparency from the beginning. While you want your members to hire each other for projects, there's a fuzzy line past which a member's company probably will be better off separating itself from yours–but it's really the kind of problem that you don't need to worry about in hypotheticals. If you start with a culture of good communication from the start, you can handle whatever comes up as it happens. Best of luck and keep us posted! Tony *---* *New Work Cities <http://nwc.co/consulting> • Coworking.org <http://Coworking.org>* [image: Inline image 8] <http://tonybacigalupo.com/>[image: http://twitter.com/tonybgoode] <http://twitter.com/tonybgoode>[image: http://facebook.com/tonybacigalupo] <http://facebook.com/tonybacigalupo>[image: http://linkedin.com/in/tonybacigalupo] <http://linkedin.com/in/tonybacigalupo>[image: Inline image 1] <http://medium.com/@tonybgoode> *[image: Inline image 2] <https://www.youtube.com/c/TonyBacigalupo>* On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 4:49 PM, AlexB <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > So I need your thoughts and input on the subject of opening a co-working > space. I am currently in the process of applying for a government funding > program for New Startups. > My area of expertise is the Media Services Section (Video Productions, > Graphic Design, Motion Graphics etc), I have worked as a freelancer for > almost 7 years now, sometimes working from home and sometimes working > in-house for other Production Houses on long term projects. > > I found out about the Government Fund and I decided that, hey, maybe its > time for me to open my own Production House, so I started developing my > business plan a while ago for a Media Production Company. Fortunately I > stumbled across co-working about a month ago and it has changed my plans > (for the better I think). The idea of a community of Creative Professionals > all working in the same space is so intriguing. I have experienced first > hand problems freelancers face when working from a home offices or cafes. > We all know these I wont get into them here because that`s not where I want > to end up. > > Now because of this I had to change my whole plan and develop a new > concept that would incorporate both (co-working and a media production > house). > > From what I have seen online most co-working spaces work by renting out > the space to tenants (I know its not only about the space, its about > community and interaction). > So what I would like is to combine both my original business idea with > co-working. > > How it would work: > > The company will serve as a co-working space for Freelance Professionals > in the Media section, with all the standard facilities of a co-working > space, but will also > have a Media Production Department and all the relevant facilities (Green > Screen Studio, Backdrops, etc). > > The media departments role: > > - Find Jobs (Video Productions, Photography, etc) > - These Jobs will be posted in a jobs opening section in our members > online system. > - They can find jobs that matches there skills and knowledge and apply > for the opening. > - Members will be paid for their services (the amount will be on a job > to job basis, depending on the scope and size) > - If no relevant members are available for certain jobs then our > Production Department will contract non-members to fill the positions. > - The media department will handle the management of the project. > > This way our members not only can use the co-working space for there own > jobs, but they can also find job openings from us. This service is also > based on membership plan, meaning that to use the Job Opening Section they > will have to have a Premium Plan. > > I would like any thoughts about the concept of having a Media Production > Department within a co-working space filled with Freelancers that do the > same job, does conflict of interest arise? > Remember though that premium members will have first pick at these job > opening and only after there is no available or qualified person will we > look outside our member pool to fill positions. > > Thanks in advance > > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
