Concept: A Visitor Center for independents
One of the downsides of typical coworking spaces is their barrier to entry. With the exception of free promotional spaces like Wix Lounge, even the most flexible of spaces offer at best a $35+ Day...
View ArticleIn pursuit of an opt-in universal calendar for indies
While traditional hierarchical jobs may have had their drawbacks, they were efficient. In a well-run corporation, people generally know when to do what, who to report to, what’s coming up next, and...
View ArticleTours of Duty for coworking communities
When two people I trust deeply (Eric and Amy) nearly simultaneously introduced me to The Alliance, I knew I had to read it. Among other things, it advocates for a new employer-employee dynamic that...
View ArticlePiloting an Active Coworking program at New Work City
One of the biggest weaknesses of coworking in its current form is its propensity for letting work become too big a part of the experience. It’s so easy for people in a coworking space, even one with a...
View ArticleWant to collaborate with coworkers on anything? Start a pod with Heartbeat.
Two friends and fellow New Work City coworkers, Natasha and Lorenz, are building a platform that gives people simple ways to form sub-communities around specific shared intentions. It’s called...
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Join us for a party to bid farewell to our old space at 412 Broadway!
412 Broadway has been the home to our community for five years now. During that time, thousands of people have passed through the doors for coworking, Meetups, classes, parties, and… in a lot of cases,...
View ArticleWe got away with it.
When you look at it objectively, we had no business getting a physical space of our own. We were small, we were broke, and we barely knew what we were doing. That anyone ever took a chance on us and...
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NWC Thrift Shop: Help us clear out our space!
For the past seven years, we’ve been collecting stuff. Some of it’s great and really useful, some of it’s… not. So when it comes time to clean house what do you do with all of it? A fake Christmas...
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New Work Cities: bringing the New Work City mojo back!
Having had a chance to take a step back and really look at what’s happening with the coworking world for some time now, I’ve noticed some alarming trends: Alarming Trend #1: All but a relative handful...
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How to Start a Coworking Space, Part 1: The Commitment
Firstly, congrats on deciding to start a coworking community! Before you do anything else, I highly recommend you join the Global Coworking Google Group and introduce yourself. There are over 5,000...
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Announcing the development of the Ultimate Coworking Toolkit!
There are over 12,000 coworking spaces in the world now, with another 5,000 or so joining the ranks in 2016 alone. Nobody owns coworking. Nobody controls it, nobody licenses it. So where’s the manual?...
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A Coworking Co-Op: It can be done!
Recently, in the Coworking Google Group (you’re on that, right?), Trevor Twining from Cowork Niagra started a conversation about the difficulty (or relative lack thereof) in establishing a coworking...
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Help us name our new seasonal program for coworking spaces!
I’ve been interviewing lots of coworking space managers, and am noticing some common challenges: (1) attracting and retaining members, (2) maintaining a strong culture and avoiding the “everyone just...
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How to Start a Coworking Space, Part 2: Seeding the Community
This is part of a series on how to start a coworking space. If you haven’t done so already, read How to Start a Coworking Space, Part 1: The Commitment. Then head back here! “People don’t buy coffee....
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What do you wish you knew when you started? 3 longtime coworking space owners...
In the course of talking to some awesome coworking space owners from the US and Europe, I uncovered an interesting trend when it comes to what they wish they’d known when they got started. I was...
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How to Start a Coworking Space, Part 3: Barn-Raising
This is part of a series on how to start a coworking space. If you haven’t done so already, read Part 1: The Commitment, and then Part 2: Seeding the Community. Then head back here! By now, you’ve got...
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6 exit strategies for coworking spaces. Pick one, or one will be picked for you!
“I don’t need an exit strategy.” I remember thinking this when I got started building New Work City. I was so passionate, so committed, that I thought the very notion of walking away from this thing I...
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My first day coworking: A moment that changed my life forever
Last updated: June 6, 2016 at 6:10 am March of 2007, Long Island, NY, Age 22 I thought I’d invented something new. I was standing around the kitchen table at my parents’ home, where I’d just completed...
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My first Meetup, or: How I made my first friends in NYC
Consider reading the previous chapter, My first day coworking: a moment that changed my life forever. To be notified about the next chapter, subscribe here! Around the same time I discovered Jelly, I...
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That time I met Mark Zuckerberg, and the guy I liked better.
Consider reading the previous chapter, My first Meetup, or: How I made my first friends in NYC To be notified about the next chapter, subscribe here! After my life-changing initial experience, I’d...
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