We are pleased to announce a membership option for teams or groups who want to join the community and take advantage of the space and resources that Cospace provides.

Cospace understands the flexibility that a small team or group needs and we make things easy for our members. Sometimes it is important for all team members to be in the same place at the same time, and sometimes it isn’t. We don’t want anyone to have to worry about when and where they can work.

Our Team Rate allows up to 5 team members access to Cospace at any given time for just $500 per month. Each member of the team receives all of the benefits of our community membership; workspace, free high speed wifi, free printer/copier/scanner use, free coffee and water. The team membership also includes free meeting room hours. Your team or group can reserve either of our conference rooms up to 8 hours each week for free. The team can purchase additional hours at the member rate.

At $500 per month, the team rate is likely the most inexpensive replacement for office space your team or group will find in town. But, as our members tell us, the real value is the opportunity to connect your team or group to a community of like-minded professionals in a collaborative environment. After 3 months of operation, our member base is starting to take shape. We are home to entrepreneurs and mobile professionals working in various domains. We have telecommuters, mobile employees and many early stage startups and small businesses with their CEO based right here at Cospace. We’ve also hosted a number of virtual companies, groups and professional organizations in our meeting spaces. Cospace is a great community centered around collaboration and we exist because of the great people, space and resources.

If you are interested in a group membership, contact us today.

Event Details

Wednesday, May 19 from 9am to 12pm.

Alex Hill is the president of BaileyHill Media, an Austin web design firm. Alex brings a broad technical background to BaileyHill Media. He has a passion that combines the creative with comprehensive, customized solutions for world class websites. Alex is going to be sharing his experience utilizing global service marketplace sites such as ODesk.com to build his business.

RSVP for the Event

The schedule for this event will be as follows:

9:00 – 9:30 – Networking
9:30 – 10:00 – Speaker: Alex Hill of Bailey Hill Media
10:00 – 12:00 – Guests are encouraged to continue their networking conversations and stick around Cospace to try out 2 free hours of coworking in our community space.

Cospace will be hosting ‘Meet Here Mornings’ in our Boardroom. In order to maintain a collaborative and networking-friendly environment, the events will be limited to 20 people. This is a free event. You do not have to be a Cospace member to attend.

Bring something to write on, plenty of business cards and your laptop or work supplies if you plan on coworking after the networking and speaker sessions. Coffee and water will be provided. You are welcome to bring a snack.

About Cospace

Cospace is the intersection of people, space and resources. Cospace promotes coworking, but looks to go beyond it. One of the ways we will do so is by providing resources that support entrepreneurship and business growth in Austin.

‘Meet Here Mornings’ is an event series designed to connect entrepreneurs and small business owners with the industry experts and resources that they need to grow their business or turn their idea into reality. The series is designed by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. This event will consist of a networking session, a hands on learning session and an opportunity to kick off a productive day with some free coworking time at Cospace.

Please visit our site for more information about coworking in Austin, meeting space rental or ‘Meet Here Mornings‘. If you’d like to suggest a topic for our next event, or if you are looking to meet a specific type of contact at this event, please email me directly at kirtus@cospaceatx.com.

Hope to Meet you Here!

Announcing ‘Meet Here Mornings,’ an event series from Cospace.

Cospace is the intersection of people, space and resources.  Cospace promotes coworking, but looks to go beyond it.  One of the ways we will do so is by providing resources that support entrepreneurship and small business growth in Austin.  We also have options for meeting and event space, centrally located in Austin

‘Meet Here Mornings’ is an event series designed to connect entrepreneurs and small business owners with the industry experts and resources that they need to grow their business or turn their idea into reality.  The series is designed by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs.  Topics will be selected by the community and will be taught by local experts and fellow entrepreneurs.  Each event will consist of a networking session, a hands on learning session and an opportunity to kick off a productive day with some free coworking time at Cospace.  Attendees will have a chance to discuss practical business questions and solutions and network with an expert and other local entrepreneurs.

Cospace will be hosting ‘Meet Here Mornings” in our Boardroom every Wednesday beginning 5/19, from 9am -12pm.  In order to maintain a collaborative and networking-friendly environment, the events will be limited to 20 people.  Check out our Meetup page to see upcoming event topics.

Working in suboptimal conditions can cause outbursts like this

Thanks Myerman.

Not everyone out there would word it exactly like you did, but there are many people out there who share the sentiment.

Working in a restaurant (or coffee shop for that matter) and expecting a good environment for getting work done is like trying to win a NASCAR race driving a school bus. It’s just not going to happen.

Sure, work can be done in restaurants, coffee shops, and now with Clear you can work while riding a horse. But none of these situations are designed for getting work done. Coworking facilities are designed to get work done. Real work.

April 10, 12-5pm

Learn how to install WordPress on your laptop so you can experiment & hack up a theme.

We’ll also go through building a small starter WordPress site for a small business, including outlining a site structure, setting up widgets, picking a basic theme & customizing the code enough to make it unique and custom to you.

WordPress is, simply put, everywhere. From the New York Times & the Wall Street Journal to my mom’s quilt guild, WordPress is in use by people needing simple-to-use yet powerful content management system software.

Join us at Cospace and learn how to get started with a local install of WordPress.

Click here to register for the event

Kyle de Haas, one of our new members at Cospace, penned a great writeup on us for one of the neighborhood newsletters this month. Titled “Coworking: an Alternative to the Home Office,” it’s a nice mention & one of what we hope to be many outreaches to our neighbors here in North Austin.

The Crestview Neighborhood Newsletter is published monthly by the Crestview Neighborhood Association & can be found online at crestviewna.org.

Last week we had a contest.  We reached out to our community and asked them to help us figure out what to do with our extra room.  We had a lot of great ideas for the space.

A couple of people suggested we use the room as a resource room.  We could have books, magazines and other tutorials on a variety of topics, like programming, development, writing, finance, accounting, etc.  We like this idea.  We have already started a library with books on many of those topics.

A few other people suggested we use the room as a combination room for smaller meetings, or video conferencing and video blogging.  This is an interesting idea.  More and more people are starting to utilize video, especially now that we have so many options to produce HD quality movies under $300.

And then we had one off the wall suggestion from a member who I won’t name (The Cospace Mayor).  He suggested we use the room as a shrine to him, either with a huge mural, Sistine Chapel style, or with several photos of him placed throughout the room.

Obviously, we wanted to make the room useful, and a resource for more than just one person.  So the Mayor’s suggestion is out.  The resource idea is awesome.  It is one that we are already pursuing.  We just don’t want to limit it to one room.  Any of the books we have now are available for use by anyone who comes in the space.

So, we are going to turn the room into a conference room/video room.  It will be a great place for members to hold their 2-4 person person client meetings.  We have the larger rooms, but they are really designed for larger groups.

And finally, we want to announce Leah Weinberger of W&WW as the winner of our $25 Alamo Gift Card.  Thank you to everyone who submitted a suggestion.

Andrew

Come in on Friday, March 26th, and help us out. Drop in your card and suggestion for your chance to win a $25 gift card to Alamo Drafthouse.

We need your help with the extra room in Cospace. We can’t figure out what the best use is for it. One of our members, Alex Hill, suggested we ask the community. We want you to come in to Cospace, take a look at the room, and give us your suggestion. Drop your suggestion along with a business card in the bowl in the room. We will randomly pick one of the cards, and give the winner a $25 gift card to Alamo Drafthouse.

Help us with this room and win a movie on us

We have plenty of community space set up, and our private desks are filling up fast.  We just added a casual coworking area in the space, for those who like to work while on a couch.

Community desks

A private desk

New lounge area

We also have great meeting space options for members and businesses in the community.  We have our boardroom for conferences and larger meetings.  We also have our new setup for our Treehouse.  It is great for team meetings, workshops, and the like.  We just recently hosted a group of developers in there for 2 days, who were debugging their product before it’s alpha launch.

Conference Style Meeting

Team Meeting Space