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A New Year & A New Direction for LakeworkSpaces
It has been just over 6 months since we landed in the Cleveland area with the crazy idea of starting a coworking space. In that time a lot has happened. We won two business pitch competitions, completed the bad girl ventures programme, been written up in multiple newspapers, published a short report on the working habits on entrepreneurs in northeast Ohio, got accepted into an accelerator and hosted a series of pop-up coworking spots. More importantly, we had the opportunity to talk to literally hundreds of people about coworking and our vision for what the region could be. In short, we’ve been busy, but it has been a blast.
We just wanted to take the opportunity to publicly say Thank You to everyone. Whether you attended one of our events, or just talked to us in passing at some point, your support has been overwhelming. There is always that little voice in the back of your head that asks “why bother?” but the response we’ve seen since arriving has officially locked that voice up and thrown away the key.
Now, it does say in the title something about a new direction and so we just wanted to announce that we are currently suspending our search for a permanent coworking location. This is not to say we have thrown in the towel on that idea, just that we have pushed back our target launch date an indefinite amount of time. Eventually we would love to (and will) open a full time coworking space in the Cleveland metro area, but for now we excited about focusing all our efforts on our pop-up coworking spots.
In the next few weeks, we plan on announcing a bunch of upcoming pop-up events all across Cleveland. To facilitate this we have just launched a meetup group (to accompany our facebook page) where we will be posting the events as they get scheduled. We have some locations, venues, and partners already lined up, but if you know of anyone with a building or a business looking to host some interesting coworkers, definitely let us know!
So that’s that — the last few months have been of blur or people and things, and we have learned a lot. Looking to the future, we hope to have retained at least a modicum of that information and plan on learning even more. If your interested, you can even help us by filling out this short survey.
Otherwise, thanks for everything and catch ya’ on the flipside!
DAniel
January 9 // Pop-Up Recap
Last Wednesday we had the third version of our pop-up coworking spot at Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Though we had a slight dip in attendance because of the holidays, a lot of people returned and a bunch of new people came out.
Next week (Wed, 23 Jan) will be the last of this series of pop-ups at Mahall’s 20 Lanes, but more are in the works. There is a lot going on at LakeworkSpaces at the moment and our eyes are looking everywhere at once—including Downtown, Ohio City, and a permanent location somewhere on the west side.
Thanks again to all of you who came out and to our fantastic sponsors, Rising Star Coffee, Gypsy Bean, Mahall’s 20 Lanes, and Curry Copy Lakewood.
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Happy New Year, Cleveland!
Fastpitch @ The Agora
While at the #NEO Expo a few weeks back, we had the fortune of hearing about a Fastpitch competition being hosted by Geis Properties at their new development, 5000 Euclid, aka The Offices at the Agora. The application was relatively straightforward and if accepted, all that was required was a 90-second pitch for some judges from the Cleveland startup community, and so we thought we’d apply.
