Comments on: Can Coworking Spaces Be Profitable?

By: Bijak F. Putranto

Bijak F. Putranto — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:20:30 +0000

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By: Mutinerie

Mutinerie — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:31:55 +0000

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By: Asier Marqués

Asier Marqués — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:29:16 +0000

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By: Coworking By The Numbers

Coworking By The Numbers — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:31:16 +0000

[...] members — because these spaces are, effectively, communities. This is something that Imran has written about here on WWD before, and previously [...]

By: Chris Mosely

Chris Mosely — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 02:15:37 +0000

I run a new coworking space in Melbourne, Australia. We now have over 30+ different companies working out of our space. We have a commercial focus, so we also talk about Serviced Offices and Virtual Offices. It's a hive of entrepreneurial activity, but we're also looking at how to make it profitable. It's a real challenge because profitability doesn't always fit with our ideals. Basically we set ourselves up to help small entrepreneurial companies to succeed, and a big part of that is providing services as cheaply as possible. On the other hand, if you do it at break-even or below, you cannot continue to do that for very long. We're starting to think that to make other's successful financially we also have to think more about profit, but it's also a dangerous thought IMHO.

We're constantly looking for new ways of improving net revenue to the space, the problem is as soon as we do, we want to spend it on the space again :)

By: Holly Blondin

Holly Blondin — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:57:44 +0000

I am in the processing of starting a coworking space in New York City. For those of you who have already started your coworking businesses, could you share your challenges in finding the “right” space and also what was your initial overhead?

By: Bleddyn Williams

Bleddyn Williams — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:06:27 +0000

This is a great topic and one that we are dealing with in London Soho where we have a co-working community of around 50 freelancers and small businesses in all. I think that a vanilla-co-working space is break even if you are lucky. In the long term as the other posters have said, there needs to be some other revenue that brings in that little bit extra, whether that be additional telephone answering services, PA services, Seminars and so on. We are trying a mix of these at the moment.

By: Betriebswirtschaftliche Gedanken rund um profitable CoWorking Orte | CoWorking News

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 06:35:50 +0000

[...] Artikel zum Weiterlesen sind „How Co-working Is Working in Portland“ auf businessweek.com und „Can Coworking Spaces Be Profitable?“ bei Web Worker Daily. Diesen Artikel bewerten: (Keine Bewertung bisher) Loading [...]

By: How Coworking Is Working in Portland

How Coworking Is Working in Portland — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:01:52 +0000

[...] it remains to be seen whether coworking spaces can be profitable, the founders I spoke with in Portland say they’re up to the challenge. Many learned a [...]

By: CubeSpace to Close

CubeSpace to Close — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:01:42 +0000

[...] and well-liked coworking community being forced to close. As Imran noted in his post “Can Coworking Spaces Be Profitable?“, coworking spaces often run on paper-thin margins, sometimes only just breaking even, or [...]