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Best,
Mayor Tony
- I’m enjoying being the first person here, working on catching up, when two guys I don’t recognize walk in. “I’m told we can work here?”
- Sebastian and Phillip from TripWolf.com, our first drop-ins out of the blue.
- I introduce Mike, who came in next, to them.
“We should talk,” he says. “What startup are you in?”
“Tripwolf”
“Oh, I know you guys! I read about you in TechCrunch!
- I try to ask the newest members for their suggestions for music for the space, and Sebastsian suggested Kruder & Dorfmeister (as what he describes as a “cultural export”). Great ambient music.
- Gathered around the LCD and watched Gary Vee prank call a beer merchandise businessowner to illustrate how to monetize a video blog on an artibrary subject.
- Whitney giving Gregory some free UI consulting on his site. “Prepopulate content… Flickr has a ‘recognized’ and ‘unrecognized’ home page…”
- Gregory considering doing a video to introduce his site.
Tony idea: Wouldn’t it be great if WTFisTwitter.com were a platform for people to post videos explaining anything? WTF is (startup name). I’d love to post a video describing Greg’s product too.
- Talking about people with booked schedules. Tony getting more and more interested in the idea of sponsoring people’s time.
- Mike brought us Financier cookies. If you haven’t had these, then you don’t know what you’re missing. They’re incredible gourmet pastry cookie things, and were a great cap off to yet another amazing day.
Today’s overall attendance: 9 people (3 FT, 2PT, 3 Dropin, one Mayor)
1 year agoAfter signing the letter of intent for New Work City’s space, the first purchase I made was, at first, perhaps an unnecessary one. I got a giant sticker of our logo.
Kendall Schoenrock, founder of LTLprints, has been a friend of the community for a long time— he was one our first (and only) paying customers at CooperBricolage, and introduced us to Richard at Gramstand, a fantastic cafe to work in. We ended up moving the community there and having a lot of great times over the past year there.
So when it came time to get started moving into our new space, I talked to Kendall about getting some signage for the space. Since I didn’t want a sign that was too humongous, Kendall offered to print a bunch of smaller stickers with the remaining material on the sticker sheet. These smaller stickers were indispensable in directing people to our kickoff party (sadly, no photos of this).
As you can see in the photos below, the print really brings character to the space. And thanks to some early testing from Alex at IndyHall, we now know that these suckers are virtually indestructible. If I ever needed to, I could peel this thing off the wall, roll it up, throw it on a wall elsewhere, and have no doubt that it’d work fine.
Thanks Kendall and the LTL Prints team! Best of luck on your launch and success!
1 year agoThis is the first in a series of posts that will recap what we did, learned, and shared throughout the day. So far, every single day has provided us with great new ideas, knowledge, and good times!
- Charlie Oliver brought us cupcakes and signed up her assistant for membership!
- We discussed hours and the membership model, and came up with a really interesting idea for expanding NWC’s operating hours by letting members take shifts to keep the space open during evenings and weekends. Much more on exploring that idea soon!
- Gregory suggested we listen to the Black Keys today; they’re an excellent blues/funk/garage rock band of whom Tony is now a fan.
- We got paid a visit by Dana from NYC Wireless, who fixed the NYCW router in our space and learned about membership. He’ll be returning tomorrow with his team to try it out!
- Electronically introduced Gregory to Muna, a lawyer who works with small businesses and entrepreneurs.
- Fredrick & Tony continued to work on getting the printer back online. Still no dice.
- Whitney suggested we buy a cheap dustbuster instead of doing lots of manual labor sweeping up our new carpet tiles. Good idea!
- Tony showed Gregory & Whitney Behance Notebooks and Action Method Online, much to their enjoyment.
- Whitney echoed earlier discussions on having profile pages for each of the members, which led to:
- Todo: Migrate blog to WordPress & give members author accounts.
- Finally, Whitney took one step further an idea Tony was working on: a regular “recap of the day” post, the first of which you are reading now :-)
- Met Mitch from ExamBuilder.com and talked about membership, usability, and pronk :-)
Much more to come!
1 year agoJoin us Monday, November 3rd and check out our new digs!
We’re still working out a few kinks, including absorbing noise, upgrading our connection, and building out a phone booth room— but in the meantime, New Work City will be ready for people to come work!
We just might spring for some breakfast and coffee to celebrate our first day. See you there!
1 year agoOne of New Work City’s goals is to help foster entrepreneurial activity in New York. Charlie O’Donnell, founder of Path101 and NYC tech’s best and most active online community, NextNY, recently testified to the NYC City Council about how to improve the city’s technology/small business sector.
He offered some fantastic advice. One excerpt:
Innovation comes not from technology, but from people—and New York City technology has a people problem. Local schools, with few exceptions, are not consistantly developing students focused on creating value through entrepreneurship and technological innovation. You can build all the incubators you want—unless you’re seeding students as early as high school or junior high with the idea that they could build the next Google here in New York, and giving them the learning tools to accomplish that, it’s never going to happen.
Charlie breaks down actionable steps that can be taken by the city to help create some real, sustained growth.
Kudos to Charlie for continuing to work toward helping grow NYC’s startup scene!
1 year agoIkea shipment arrived, friends came to help, and before you knew it, we had tables and chairs!
Thanks to Fredrick, Nidhi, Dave, Steve, and JP for coming by to chip in and help out!
We’ve got a special evening lined up for you this Saturday! Join fellow New Workers along with some of the leaders of the global coworking movement as we celebrate the opening of New Work City!
Here’s a breakdown of what we’ll be doing:
8:00pm - Pre-party warmup discussions: Coworking coaching session with Raines Cohen, Coworking Coach!
9:00pm - Toast and party kickoff
10:30 - 11pm - Move to the Four Points Sheraton, around the corner
Here’s the info:
Address:
200 Varick St, Room 507B
New York, NY 10014 (Map)
Tell security you’re there for Rom 507B, Element N. This is the company hosting us.
Directions:
Take the 1 to Houston Street.
Take the ACEBDFV to W. 4th Street.
If you have any trouble or any questions, contact Tony at tony [at] nwcny [dot] com or 631-513-1680.
A very extra-special thanks goes out to ITAC, who is graciously sponsoring our event! ITAC is a fully government-funded nonprofit whose central purpose is to foster small business growth in the New York metro area. Needless to say, we love them! At the event, we’ll briefly review one of ITAC’s friends, the Small Business Innovation Research program, which is a government initiative to connect their research and development efforts with those of small businesses.
See you there!
1 year agoThe Ikea order is in! The furniture is on the way!
Join us this Tuesday afternoon at 5:00 to help us assemble the desks and chairs and help make New Work City a whole lot cozier.
Comment below to let us know if you’re coming! We’ll update with an exact time once we hear back from Ikea.
Cheers! It’s time to build a coworking space!
1 year agoWe’re working on getting furniture into the space this weekend— more on that soon— but for now, we wanted to let you know that all next week you will be welcome to come check out the space and talk to us.
Contact us if you’d like to come check out the space!
Tony
1 year ago
