Hi:
My name is Steve King and I do research on small business and small
business trends. We're starting to see coworking like facilitities
cropping up outside of traditional office space environments. Two
examples are:
1. Techshop (http://techshop.ws) which provides workshops and
equipment
I'll ask them for a list of the stations that run the story.
Steve
On Apr 29, 6:24 pm, Suzi Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Give It Upp for Alex and Brad - yo yo yo
I guess you can tell it's a syndicated piece because they don't
actually mention Philly or where anyone is from.
I talked to the Newspronet folks. They are the company that produced
the coworking story. They said they put together their usage reports
once per quarter, so it will be a while before they can tell us which
stations showed the story. For a list of the stations that subscribe
to their service,
The DaVinci Institute's annual forecast trend list includes two
related to coworking. One is an increasing number of single person
businesses. The other is a trend they call business colonies, which
sounds like coworking meets economic development meets clusters. Key
quote:
Colonies will form
Mentions Indy Hall, Imprompttu Studio, Citizen Space and Office
Nomads. The article is at:
http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE51G49R20090217
Steve
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I did a book review of the coworking book I'm Outta Here on the US
News and World Report website. It is at:
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/outside-voices-small-business/2009/03/11/is-the-office-obsolete.html
The short version of the review is read the book if you are interested
in coworking.
Hi: My name is Steve King and I am a long time lurker and occasional
poster on this group:). I'm a partner at a research firm - Emergent
Research (www.emergentresearch.com) - that focuses on the small
business sector of the US and global economy.
We've been following coworking for several years
.
Try contacting Dilara - she's at dil...@siliconsentier.org.
Good luck!
Susan
On Feb 15, 10:29 am, sk...@emergentresearch.com
sk...@emergentresearch.com wrote:
Hi: My name is Steve King and I am a long time lurker and occasional
poster on this group:). I'm a partner at a research firm
We did an informal count in December of last year and came up with 212
coworking facilities in the US. This was our 2nd annual informal
count and it showed growth of about 60% year over year. The New York
Times (http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/01/working-in-the-
company-of-strangers/)
I mentioned on this group a few months ago that Emergent Research (my
company) was considering conducting a research project on coworking.
We are going forward with the project and started a few weeks ago.
The project details are on our new project blog - www.coworkinglabs.com,
which is still
Our research assistants have been working away developing a count of
the number of coworking facilities in the US. While we are not done,
it looks like our estimate will be in 250 range. Our estimate last
december came to about 215-220.
Several interesting things about the count:
1. It is
We're seeing strong interest on the part of exec suite companies and
operators of business centers in coworking. So far this consists
mostly of studying the movement and experimentation.
As Alex points out, these firms currently target a different market.
They see their client base as
Alex:
Our prior counts have been pretty rough - based on Google searches and
some directional estimating.
The current count is the first time we've formalized the count
process. Having said that, it continues to be an estimate and not a
census. By that I mean we aren't attempting to get an
A quick question for the group. Would you consider hacker spaces
coworking facilities? Hacker spaces are physical locations that are a
shared workshop for people interested in making things. Most are non-
profit and community owned, but private ownership is becoming more
common.
Hacker spaces
An independent candidate for governor of Colorado has made coworking a
key part of his economic development platform. He's calling for
coworking facilities in every county in CO.
I know nothing about the guy - his coworking plan is at:
http://www.carrforgovofco.com/?p=149
The plan is not far
it here.
Do you plan to continue this draft into non-us territories?
-Alex
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indyhall.org
coworking in philadelphia
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 2:51 PM, sk...@emergentresearch.com
sk...@emergentresearch.com wrote:
As part of our coworking research, we've developed a draft list of US
Interesting video from CNN International on the officeless
generation. It features WorkSnug, an iPhone app that shows mobile
workers places to work and The Hub in London.
The video is at:
http://edition.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/business/2010/09/01/qmb.quest.mobile.workers.cnn.html
WorkSnug
Deb:
We're big fans of the DaVinci Institute and closely follow your
futures work. Congratulations on the new coworking space.
For those not familar with DaVinci, it is well worth visiting
http://www.davinciinstitute.com to learn about this think tank/events/
coworking company. Their
We're certainly seeing coworking spaces focused on vertical
industries. The HUB network is a good example. These spaces are
focused on social entrepreneurship. There are also a lot tech
oriented spaces - especially in SF and NY - that cater to tech
startups and their entrepreneurs. Specialty
Deskmag has an interesting article on a study of coworkers done by a
German student. It looks pretty good and they are planning on taking
the study global. It is at:
http://www.deskmag.com/en/survey-coworking-spaces-144
There is more detail on the coworking blog:
Intuit just released their Intuit 2020 Report. We are co-authors and
the report contains 20 demographic, social, economic and technology
trends that will impact consumers and businesses over the next decade.
The report started as part of Intuit's annual strategic planning
process. We worked
The Iowa City Development Group has created a very short survey of
coworking space managers/ownersto help them with their planning for a
potential future coworking space. It is less than 10 questions and
only takes a couple of minutes to fill out.
I've talked with the folks in Iowa and they've
Thanks for pointing this out. I will alert the survey owner.
On Oct 21, 2:00 am, Will Bennis, Locus Workspace
wmben...@gmail.com wrote:
the survey is not working for me. When I press next the first page
just reloads.
On Oct 21, 12:22 am, sk...@emergentresearch.com
sk
I'm going. So is my business partner, Carolyn Ockels. Should be fun.
Steve
On Oct 24, 12:04 pm, Jacob Sayles ja...@officenomads.com wrote:
Hello,
I was wondering who else from the US or Canada was planning on going to the
Coworking Europe conference?
http://coworkingeu.wordpress.com/
The data is at best incomplete in terms of the number of coworking
facilities, especially historic data. We did a count of U.S.
coworking facilites last summer and there were 252 US facilities based
on our defintion. We also did rough counts in 2008 and 2009 and we
have a chart showing the
In case you missed it, Deskmag has a profile of US coworking users
based on the respondents to their global coworking survey. The folks
at Deskmag shared the raw data with us (thanks Deskmag) and one of our
researchers wrote the article. It is at:
Roughly 600 is the last count I'm aware of. We did a U.S. count last
summer that led to the roughly 250 number here. Our post on this is
at: http://www.smallbizlabs.com/2010/09/over-250-us-coworking-facilities.html
The global count, from Deskmag, can be found at:
We did a census of US coworking facilities last year and collaborated
with Deskmag on their global count. We quickly learned your
definition of coworking and coworking facility has a big impact on
the census outcome. After discussing the definition with a number of
folks from the coworking
ING Bank has been opening branches with cafes for about a year. They
have 7 of them in North America. Their recently opened branch/cafe in
Toronto has a 2nd floor coworking facility run by ING. Our post on it
is at: http://bit.ly/kxliBk
The FinancialBrand blog has a good story on this from
The Mesh by Lisa Gansky is another book on this topic. The book's
tagline is Why the Future of Business is Sharing. It mentions
coworking and several coworking facilities. It came out about the
same time as Collaborative Consumption and covers the same ground. I
think both books are quite
Back when the global coworking survey was done, women comprised about
1/3rd of the US respondents. Based on our other work, this was
probably a bit higher than the actual female rate, which at the time
we estimated at about 25%. This data is about 1 year old.
In our interviews with women we
Great article in Knowledge@Wharton about the growth of freelancers,
independent workers and telecommuters. As you can see from the title,
the authors are very concerned about people working without contact
with others.
No mention of coworking, but there should have been. Coworking fixes
a lot
WorkatWork is a non-profit association focused on HR issues. The
recently released a report on Telework. It has lots of data on who is
teleworking, why and where.
It is at: http://www.worldatwork.org/waw/adimLink?id=53034
Their where data is pretty interesting. Home, of course, is the
most
of social
entrepreneurship is pretty broad, so pretty much anyone who self-
identifies as a social entrepreneur/social organization will likely
meet our criteria.
We will be releasing our findings to the public.
If intererested in participating, please send me an email:
sk...@emergentresearch.com
Angel: We have. They're a great place and produce excellent reports
our their experiences as a social accelerator.
On Jul 20, 1:19 pm, Angel Kwiatkowski fccowork...@gmail.com wrote:
Have you contacted the Center for Social Innovation?
On Jul 18, 10:28 pm, sk...@emergentresearch.com
sk
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On Jul 21, 5:48 pm, sk...@emergentresearch.com
sk...@emergentresearch.com wrote:
Angel: We have. They're a great place and produce excellent reports
our their experiences as a social accelerator.
On Jul 20, 1:19 pm, Angel Kwiatkowski fccowork
I participated in a webinar today on distributed work and presented on
coworking. The audience (about 200 or so, I think) was mostly
comprised of HR folks from large companies. A couple of interesting
take aways:
1. 53% of the attendees were not familar with coworking - we did a
webinar poll
Based on data collected last summer - which is out of date given the
growth of the coworking movement - I would agree with Anna that NYC
and the SF/Bay Area have the most U.S. facilities. We didn't collect
data on square footage, so I can't speak to that.
Austin is, obviously, another city where
Mark:
Ok, I'll bite:). Why is Anoka the Halloween capital of the world?
Steve
On Aug 3, 9:34 pm, Mark Gilbreath mfgilbre...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey Y'all
As many of you know, I have a serial coworking problem. There, I've
admitted it. My first coworking foray (VengaWorks) in Boise Idaho
For the last 6 months we've been partnering with MBO Partners
(www.mbopartners.com) on a deep dive research project on independent
workers - freelancers, contractors, temps, solopreneurs, etc.
The results of the first phase of the study (there’s a report and a
slide presentation) are at:
Mark:
Good article. Having grown up in a small town in Kansas, I like the
idea of coworking spreading to rural areas. I'm looking forward to
seeing how the Radford space goes. I also think the economic
development angle is quite interesting.
Keep us posted.
On Sep 19, 6:56 am, Mark W. Kidd
The biotech Maker/Hacker space bioCurious opened last week in Silicon
Valley. It's an interesting example of coworking expanding beyond
office spaces.
One of their selling points is members can Make genetically-
engineered bacteria. Seems like a great disaster movie plot.
Their blog does a
The Voices of Coworking video was released today on the Intuit
Network. The URL is: http://network.intuit.com/2011/10/26/voices-of-coworking/
The video was produced by us, Emergent Research, and based on a series
of interviews we did over the summer at SF Bay Area coworking
facilities. In the
The move by Regus to claim the coworking space validates the growing
power of coworking and the coworking movement. It also shows how
mainstream coworking (or at least the term coworking) has become.
Regus wouldn't have done this unless they were seeing rapidly growing
interest in coworking.
The OBCAI has a LinkedIn group. You have to be approved to join, but
several coworking folks (Alex Hillman, Jean-Eves Huwart) are members.
There's several discussions on coworking and it's very interesting
seeing the POV of folks from the traditional business centers. They
are looking at the
Related, Coffee and Power (www.coffeeandpower) is an online
marketplace startup that allows people to buy and sell small jobs from
one another. Part of their business plan is to create a chain of
coworking spaces (they call them work clubs) that provide space for
the work to be done.
I don't
Dan: I enjoyed your article. Nice job.
On Feb 9, 7:16 am, Dan Haugen dhaugen...@gmail.com wrote:
Here's a link as promised to the article I wrote for GOOD. Thanks to
those of you who helped me out with interviews/contacts, etc.
The Wall Street Journal has a good summary of some of the new legal
structure options for socially oriented firms - LC3, B-Corps and
flexible purpose corps. The article is at:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203413304577088604063391944.html?mod=djemSB_t
On Feb 15, 1:04 pm,
Regus released a study on Flexible Work. You can track it down at
their blog:
http://regusblog.tumblr.com/post/17546401989/five-mind-blowing-new-stats-about-flexible-working
Their five mind blowing stats about flexible working are:
•72% of global businesses report increased productivity as a
Eli: This is an interesting and complex issue. When we started
Emergent Research we decided to do open source research. By that we
mean we try, as much as possible, to include 3rd parties in our
research process and release our work to the public.
We started doing this in 1999, well before
While it depends on your definition of industry, based on our
definition there are a lot of industry specific coworking facilities.
In SF area alone examples include The Hub (social entrepreneurs),
Writers Grotto (writers and media), Mission*Social (social
entrepreneurs), Biocurious (biosciences)
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