1. Scope Out Some Existing Spaces
Jay Catalan, the co-founder of a coworking space in Vancouver called The Network Hub, didn’t plan on founding a coworking space when he started looking for an office to share with a handful of other companies. When he came across Citizen Space in San Francisco, he decided he liked the idea and used what he found out about their and other coworking spaces’ models to shape how his own space would function.
“The original idea was dividing the space into different private offices — offices within an office,” Catalan says. “The idea of coworking and the model of Citizen Space is about being in a shared area where you get to talk to people more, you get to know people more. If you need something, you can just turn to the guy next to you and ask, ‘what do you think about this?’ That’s not really as possible if the space was divided into actual offices.”
Catalan suggests that potential coworking space owners find out about how other coworking spaces are functioning before starting to plan their own. Many are listed on the coworking wiki. It’s also good to see what coworking spaces are already available in your area to avoid overlap in niche or location......
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