Recap: New Work City Meet & Greet

We launched the New Work City site two weeks ago, and have had some fantastic response. Since many of the people who’ve signed up on the site weren’t yet familiar with the existing coworking community in NYC, we decided to have an event so everyone could get to know each other and so we could talk about our progress.

I also tried to make sure the discussion wasn’t one-way. It’s easy for me, or Sanford, or others to talk at length about coworking, but it’s important that everyone in the community be able to participate equally. There were a lot of new voices, and, they each had something important to contribute to the discussion.

As we went around the table, there was an obvious common thread: people are working at home, and it’s driving them crazy.

I noticed another pattern as well: coworking consistently attracts upbeat, self-motivated, interesting, intelligent people. And the enthusiasm among them is universal.

The main takeaway: the people who showed now all know each other a little better, and are now part of the community. And now they’re ready to help build New Work City and NYC’s larger coworking world.

We’re now hoping to have a critical mass in time to sign papers for June 1st. We’ll soon have letters of commitment drafted, so we can have a tangible list of how many people are seriously committed to joining and supporting our space. Starting with that, we can have a much better expectation of when we’ve hit our critical mass (by our current estimates, we’d need the equivalent of 21 full-time commitments to be able to move into the Balcony space– this can be broken down into different levels of membership, but it’s our basic target).

We’re off to a great start, but need to continue to get the word out to more people who’d be interested in this space. So if you know someone who you think might be interested, let them know!

More good things are in store for both CooBric and NWC. Exciting times!