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I live in Cornwall, Ontario, Canada and am doing a feasibility study. The nature of the study is to see if a coworking space would function in our City, and if so what does it look like? Is it for-profit, not-for-profit? What are the start-up costs, the operational costs and the financing (if any) costs? Linking up with other colab/coworking spaces to understand what worked and did not work for them is what I will be doing in this study. As well as recruiting for the space to act as both a coworking community and a mentoring for small business to accelerate and gain expertise from other business owners while at the same time working together, yet independently. On Friday, 5 October 2018 16:03:29 UTC-4, Aloma Loren wrote: > > I am looking to share ideas and ways that you have collaborated with local > organizations that provide small business support. For example, the local > Small Business Development Center, the Small Business Administration etc. > > I would love to come up with some creative ways to collaborate with these > organizations. > > One idea I had is to turn one of our offices into a Business Resource > Center. I am in the process of doing this and would love to hear from > anyone who has done something similar. > > My vision for this is an office that has various materials from the many > different organizations that support small businesses. It will also be > available as a shared office for reps from these orgs to come use to offer > advising, meetings etc. > SCORE, for example, offers free advising and the chapter in my city does > not have adequate office space so they are excited to participate. It will > get people from these organizations out into the community in a new way, of > course my members will benefit from having this resource available right in > our space and any traffic that comes in to meet with these reps could be > potential members. > > I don't have all the details figured out quite yet and I haven't figured > out how to make it pencil out beyond the added value to our members and > the traffic of potential new members. Maybe that's enough but it would be > nice to have the cost of the office covered so I'm thinking I'll do this as > a trial and see if enough people see the value in it to pitch in toward the > price of the office. > > I'd love to brainstorm and hear your ideas or what you have done in your > space. > -- 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.
