Re: [Coworking] Re: My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

Ooo, can I come? Just under the wire, July 2010. :-) On Tuesday, February 13, 2018 at 6:01:13 AM UTC+1, Jerome wrote: > > Haha. Ok, then a gathering of, say, owners of 6+ year old operations. We > can talk about “the good ‘ole days.” > > Jerome > www.BLANKSPACES.com > > On Feb 12, 2018, at

Re: [Coworking] Re: My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

Haha. Ok, then a gathering of, say, owners of 6+ year old operations. We can talk about “the good ‘ole days.” Jerome www.BLANKSPACES.com > On Feb 12, 2018, at 11:10 AM, Will Bennis, Locus Workspace > wrote: > > Thanks for the feedback, Jerome. > > It's nice to hear

Re: [Coworking] Re: My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

Thanks for the feedback, Jerome. It's nice to hear that felt like a special event from others who have been around for a while. Definitely did for me, but I don't make it to a lot of coworking owner/manager events. I like the idea of a 10+ year event, but you'll have to give me 2+ years. :)

Re: [Coworking] Re: My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

Hi all. I recall that Oct 2011 gathering at my space. It was truly collaborative, and a milestone in my eyes of coworking history. I never thought of the other participants as competitors as no one was even in the same geography, and even if so, the industry was growing so quickly. Thank you

Re: [Coworking] Re: My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

Thank you so much for this feedback, Steve. Really cool to hear about your influences and experiences with my father's writing. He was actually sitting in the back of the room at a long-ago small coworking conference that you were at, I think the only time I met you in person (a meeting at

Re: [Coworking] Re: My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

Will: Excellent essay that I enjoyed on several levels. First, your father's work had a major impact on my career. I was slugging it out climbing the corporate ladder in the late 80's and 90's. On Becoming a Leader and his other work greatly helped me shift from being a front line manager to

Re: [Coworking] Re: My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

Finally finished the final post in a long promised three part series about closing a branch of my coworking space. It's about the *optimism *that can come from scaling down, about overcoming the entrepreneur's

Re: [Coworking] Re: My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

Thanks for sharing this, Will. Part two, about relief , was especially resonant for me! Seems bittersweet - excited to read part three about optimism :) -- *The #1 mistake in community building is doing

[Coworking] Re: My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

Just adding to this thread to announce another coworking space closing (Locus Workspace's first location in Prague, Czech Republic). We're not out of business, just consolidating from two to one space. And ultimately it was a great thing. But it was our first location and really a difficult

[Coworking] Re: My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

Thanks Andy for sharing these data. In our coworking the trend is a bit different. The average churn rate is 5% on all our memberships except the full time coworking (different from resident/dedicated desk) which has a churn rate of 8%. We don't have data around the main reason for living,

[Coworking] Re: My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

Just wanted to share this post here from long time coworking space: http://thinkhousecollective.com/farewell-thinkhouse-collective Cheers Thilo -- more time for your members: http://cobot.me On Wednesday, September 19, 2012 at 4:14:37 AM UTC+2, Alex Hillman wrote: I'm sure I'm not the

[Coworking] Re: My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

Alex, Is there such a thing as a coworking Pulitzer? Let me know if New Worker Magazine -- or lil' ol' me -- can be of help on this particular topic. Melissa Melissa Mesku Founding editor, New Worker Magazine *the magazine for and by people who cowork* newworker.co -- Visit this forum

Re: [Coworking] Re: My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

I'll add another item to Jonathan\s list: 4 - Less diversity. 100 members with a flex or part time membership is 3x as many different occupations, passions, life experiences, and hobbies than 35 members with a full time membership, so the mix of people that members interact with will be much less

Re: [Coworking] Re: My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

Many full-time members with permanent desks is absolutely a problem. We limit to a maximum of 40% of desks for full-timers. If you go too far above that there are at least three common problems: 1) Part-time / flexible members don't feel like they have a significant sense of ownership of the

Re: [Coworking] Re: My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

Too many full time members, not enough flex (or some variation on flex). Er... many fulltimers is a *problem*?!?!? -- 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

Re: [Coworking] Re: My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

Thank you for this conversation! I was just wondering about this last night. On Monday, January 12, 2015 at 7:33:52 PM UTC-5, Alex Hillman wrote: Yeah I agree Joel. I counted that under leadership burnout, but it definitely should be a separate bullet on the list. It's something I see

Re: [Coworking] Re: My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

Hi Alex, This all makes sense. But I am not quite sure what is meant by Top-heavy membership. Can you elaborate? On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Alex Hillman dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com wrote: Here’s an incomplete and in-no-particular order of things that I’ve seen kill coworking spaces.

Re: [Coworking] Re: My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

Too many full time members, not enough flex (or some variation on flex). -- The #1 mistake in community building is doing it by yourself. Join the list: http://coworkingweekly.com Listen to the podcast: http://listen.coworkingweekly.com On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 4:22 PM,

Re: [Coworking] Re: My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

Good list Alex. I would add poor/non-existent succession plan for leadership as well. Have seen a few spaces in our area that start to falter when the original founder/leader decides to step away without someone of equal passion ready to step in to carry the baton. Joel Bennett Veel Hoeden

Re: [Coworking] Re: My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

Here’s an incomplete and in-no-particular order of things that I’ve seen kill coworking spaces. Many of them aren’t unique to coworking, but often take unique or different “forms” in the context of coworking.  - Membership turnover  - Hiring mistakes  - Leadership burnout  - Top-heavy

Re: [Coworking] Re: My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

Hi Alex, Stacy Others, Stumbled upon this discussion thread while researching coworking. I recently started a coworking space called 'Indieloft' in Nagpur (India) and looking to promote it locally and build a strong community. It'd be really interesting to understand why some of the other

Re: [Coworking] Re: My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

Hey Stacey, welcome to the discussion! :) Hit me up off list, I'll catch you up on what I've found so far and some leads that might be worth following. I agree that there's a ton of value in better understanding the patterns in the mistakes made and problems encountered. -Alex

[Coworking] Re: My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

Hey Alex and Others, Long time lurker, first time poster :) I started Platform 53 http://www.platform53.com/, a coworking space in Cincinnati, OH/Northern Kentucky this past September, so still really fresh, but have been doing research and pop-up coworking events around the region since 2012,

[Coworking] Re: My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

I also would be very interested in the results. Thank you On Tuesday, September 18, 2012 10:14:37 PM UTC-4, Alex Hillman wrote: I'm sure I'm not the only person on this group who has google alerts set up for the words coworking and, sigh, co-working. Between the number of new space

[Coworking] Re: My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

We haven't looked at coworking facility failure rates lately. When we last looked, back in 2010, the failure rate seemed to be around 30%-40% within 2-3 years of opening. This is higher than the average failure rate for small businesses, but not by much. I'll hunt around a bit and

[Coworking] Re: My morbid curiosity with Coworking Space Closings

I don't know if my information would be of use to you but I do thank you for starting this topic. I opened a business center/internet cafe' back in November of 2012. I had previously worked in retail as an operations manager and saw a need for this through many inquiries received at my work.