Coworking World - Pilot Week
Greetings! My name is Ilya, I am a co-founder of Coworking World.
For most, the first week after the new year is an occasion to discuss the past holidays and get into a working mood. For us and users, Geektimes is not the case! In the first week, we managed to open up and want to talk about it.
Before the New Year, we have already chosen a room for coworking and prepared bags for a long trip. And then we get a call from the owner of another, better room, literally 5 minutes from the metro - at the last moment someone broke and they are ready to let us in at a very good price.
By the way, here it is in the summer (sorry for the quality):
OK. For several hours on Saturday, it is necessary to organize a coworking move for 50 jobs to another street. We order transport, unscrew the legs from the ikeev tables (by the way, buy with round legs, it is easier to assemble and disassemble them later) and disassemble the chairs (order the assembly of chairs, it took us 15 man hours to 12 chairs!). Urgently terminate the contract with the old owner.
In parallel, we will arrange access to a new room, we find out that this is the 3rd floor without an elevator. Movers, swearing, drag boxes with furniture upstairs. The whole trip took 5 hours.
Next, it was necessary to write a newsletter to all customers so that they did not come to the old place on January 11th. We use sendpulse, it turns out they are not too friendly with Yandex. If you specify my personal e-mail as the sender's address, letters are sent to spam. We change ... we send. We call everyone who paid, just in case.
Fast forward on January 11th. We return from rest at 8 am, relax a bit, then immediately go to the coworking, empty for now. For the day and evening we collect tables and chairs, do the preliminary arrangement of furniture. In parallel, we hold meetings with clients. Everything looked like this: We
warn customers that we are already working, but in pilot mode.
In the morning of January 12, 8 people already come to work. We organize an Internet - 4G modem from Beeline is quite enough in the center. The backup channel speed is about 15 Mb / s for input and the same for output. It seems you can work. Clients immediately create a working atmosphere, which is still being held. In coworking, it is very quiet, even a noisy team, looking at focused programmers, calms down and focuses.
We deal with ventilation, heating, lighting, keys. By the way, there are still difficulties with them - apparently making 50 smart cards is somehow problematic :)
On the 12th day, coworking already looks like this:
We organize a large number of views on January 13th - absolutely everyone is satisfied. The owner still has not organized additional lighting, the meeting rooms are dark ... But otherwise a good day, almost no memories.
On January 14, we finally organize a kitchen - a mini fridge, a kettle, and a coffee machine. They were kindly provided to us by a friend who also helped in the assembly of furniture. We brew the first aromatic coffee, make tea. Feeling at home already.
We also arrange furniture, arrange chairs, arrange visits, and negotiate with the owner about lighting and keys. In the evening set the light in the meeting rooms. An almost ordinary workflow has already started. Today, our coworking looks like this:
The conclusions are simple - coworking can be opened using the bootstrapping, or lean startup model. The main thing is to provide people with a good location, a comfortable working atmosphere and convenient jobs. The rest can be bought in full as it launches in the first pilot week.
For most, the first week after the new year is an occasion to discuss the past holidays and get into a working mood. For us and users, Geektimes is not the case! In the first week, we managed to open up and want to talk about it.
Before the New Year, we have already chosen a room for coworking and prepared bags for a long trip. And then we get a call from the owner of another, better room, literally 5 minutes from the metro - at the last moment someone broke and they are ready to let us in at a very good price.
By the way, here it is in the summer (sorry for the quality):
OK. For several hours on Saturday, it is necessary to organize a coworking move for 50 jobs to another street. We order transport, unscrew the legs from the ikeev tables (by the way, buy with round legs, it is easier to assemble and disassemble them later) and disassemble the chairs (order the assembly of chairs, it took us 15 man hours to 12 chairs!). Urgently terminate the contract with the old owner.
In parallel, we will arrange access to a new room, we find out that this is the 3rd floor without an elevator. Movers, swearing, drag boxes with furniture upstairs. The whole trip took 5 hours.
Next, it was necessary to write a newsletter to all customers so that they did not come to the old place on January 11th. We use sendpulse, it turns out they are not too friendly with Yandex. If you specify my personal e-mail as the sender's address, letters are sent to spam. We change ... we send. We call everyone who paid, just in case.
Fast forward on January 11th. We return from rest at 8 am, relax a bit, then immediately go to the coworking, empty for now. For the day and evening we collect tables and chairs, do the preliminary arrangement of furniture. In parallel, we hold meetings with clients. Everything looked like this: We
warn customers that we are already working, but in pilot mode.
In the morning of January 12, 8 people already come to work. We organize an Internet - 4G modem from Beeline is quite enough in the center. The backup channel speed is about 15 Mb / s for input and the same for output. It seems you can work. Clients immediately create a working atmosphere, which is still being held. In coworking, it is very quiet, even a noisy team, looking at focused programmers, calms down and focuses.
We deal with ventilation, heating, lighting, keys. By the way, there are still difficulties with them - apparently making 50 smart cards is somehow problematic :)
On the 12th day, coworking already looks like this:
We organize a large number of views on January 13th - absolutely everyone is satisfied. The owner still has not organized additional lighting, the meeting rooms are dark ... But otherwise a good day, almost no memories.
On January 14, we finally organize a kitchen - a mini fridge, a kettle, and a coffee machine. They were kindly provided to us by a friend who also helped in the assembly of furniture. We brew the first aromatic coffee, make tea. Feeling at home already.
We also arrange furniture, arrange chairs, arrange visits, and negotiate with the owner about lighting and keys. In the evening set the light in the meeting rooms. An almost ordinary workflow has already started. Today, our coworking looks like this:
The conclusions are simple - coworking can be opened using the bootstrapping, or lean startup model. The main thing is to provide people with a good location, a comfortable working atmosphere and convenient jobs. The rest can be bought in full as it launches in the first pilot week.