Hi,
We have opened a coworking in a small city in Noth West of Italy
(www.ubloom.it).
Same experience: a lot of people say they find it interesting, but in six
months we have achieved to have very few members (some 20) and occasional
users...
Do you think it's a matter of novelty? Or it's
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
Brace yourself for radicality. :-)
I have one space which is a sharing arrangement with a landlord (sorry, the
words joint venture and partnership make me twitch, as I am a lawyer and
those words have specific meanings to us, and this is not that) and one
which is a shop-in-shop arrangement
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
The reality of business press coverage is sometimes you lose - and this was
one of those times. It was clear while I was being interviewed the reporter
had a negative point of view about coworking and considered it very
expensive. I tried to move him off of this and suggested to talk to others
Yep, to add to what Steve said: I can usually tell when a reporter has had
their story assigned to them from an editor during the interview and I can
ALWAYS tell from the final product.
This is one of those stories.
I’d bet $100 that the editor was like, “oh, all of these happy
Well, the intangibles cited by Liz in the article certainly cured my
loneliness. And I didn't even have to pay exorbitant NeueHouse rates (good
thing, because what passes for coworking there costs more than rent on my
Manhattan apartment). Just sayin'.
If anything, this article spurred my
I was able to set up and link youcanbook.me with a new google calendar in
just a few minutes. It's perfect for our use! Thanks again Glen. Still
working on the group message thing but it's really more of a group bat
phone in case Willy Nelson shows up!!
On Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 3:56:38
People who have never run a business often think that sort of thing. It is
a really silly article, I agree with that. His other articles are no less
silly though.
But Steve King (quoted in the article) is usually around here somewhere,
maybe he will have something to add.
On Wednesday,
Hi,
We are about to open a coworking space in a small town in Belgium. +/-
30,000 inhabitants, but the Grand-Duchy of Luxemburg is just 30min drive
from here.
Our space isn’t open yet, and luckily enough the city council gave us a
place for free for two years.
Our problem is that we need 5000€
I'd love to hear more about smaller spaces. Our town is 12,000, looking to
start a coworking space here and learning lots of great lessons from this
list, thank you all.
Dave
On Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at 11:23:33 AM UTC-5, Angel Kwiatkowski wrote:
Looking to highlight teeny, off the
Hey everyone – a friend at Office Nomads where I work in Seattle linked me
to this (I started at Acuity Scheduling just this week!) For scheduling it
sounds like we're a good fit. The two resources would be set up as
different calendars which does require a premium account. We'd also
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