Re: [Coworking] Infuriating article on the high premiums charged by coworking spaces in Bloomberg
There are some coworking spaces that are either publicly subsidized or operate like a cooperative to be able to accommodate the local, perhaps depressed, economy. However, economics 101 says there is no free lunch, so costs are costs, so an owner earning $$ is likely faced with $$ costs. That said, BLANKSPACES has always offered very affordable $100/mo WorkBar plans for now 7 years. :-) JEROME CHANG WEST: Santa Monica 1450 2nd Street (@Broadway) | Santa Monica CA 90401 ph: (310) 526-2255 CENTRAL: Mid-Wilshire 5405 Wilshire Blvd (2 blocks west of La Brea) | Los Angeles CA 90036 ph: (323) 330-9505 EAST: Downtown 529 S. Broadway, Suite 4000 (@Pershing Square) | Los Angeles CA 90013 ph: (213) 550-2235 On Feb 7, 2015, at 12:37 PM, Marius Amado-Alves amado.al...@gmail.com wrote: Not read the article, but I do feel cowork fees are too high in a couple contexts: space with hundreds of coworkers in a big city e.g. Berlin thus earning many tens of thousands of euros monthly; that's very good business for the owner, but somehow inbalanced w.r.t. to the social economy spirit of coworking many people would benefit from coworking but cannot afford the high fees e.g. unemployed people this is just an observation about the dimension of the fees, not about the article which I haven't read and probaly will not, sorry -- 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 coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[Coworking] Infuriating article on the high premiums charged by coworking spaces in Bloomberg
I have never been so pissed by an article on coworking: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-02/co-working-spaces-an-expensive-cure-for-loneliness Can't believe Bloomberg would publish this kind of financial analysis (treating the only cost of business as the lease cost). My ongoing struggle with running a coworking space has been with the fact that margins on memberships for the most part need to be lower than they should be to compete with spaces funded by grants, accelerators treating the space as a business cost for the hopeful investment payoff, big businesses using coworking spaces as mascots/advertising/sources of inspiration, or other spaces that are just operating at a loss because they underestimated the expenses involved in operating a space. Anyway, just putting this out there to promote some good old group resentment at the media. :) Anyone disagree and think Bloomberg got it right? Will -- 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 coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [Coworking] Infuriating article on the high premiums charged by coworking spaces in Bloomberg
A business-focused news site should really do a better job of hiring writers who know how business works and operates. This article is ill-informed and misleading, but, hey, it's gotten us to talk about and click on it. On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 1:31 AM, Will Bennis, Locus Workspace wmben...@locusworkspace.com wrote: I have never been so pissed by an article on coworking: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-02/co-working-spaces-an-expensive-cure-for-loneliness Can't believe Bloomberg would publish this kind of financial analysis (treating the only cost of business as the lease cost). My ongoing struggle with running a coworking space has been with the fact that margins on memberships for the most part need to be lower than they should be to compete with spaces funded by grants, accelerators treating the space as a business cost for the hopeful investment payoff, big businesses using coworking spaces as mascots/advertising/sources of inspiration, or other spaces that are just operating at a loss because they underestimated the expenses involved in operating a space. Anyway, just putting this out there to promote some good old group resentment at the media. :) Anyone disagree and think Bloomberg got it right? Will -- 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 coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -=-=-=- Anca Mosoiu | Tech Liminal a...@techliminal.com M: (510) 220-6660 http://techliminal.com | T: @techliminal | F: facebook.com/techliminal -- 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 coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
