And… We’re Open
February 4th, 2008
That’s right, after months of preparation and years (!!) of talking about it, Montréal’s first coworking space is open. I’m writing this from my desk at Station C, looking out to what I think is a beautifully prepared space with 16 workspaces (10 are ready, other 6 next weekend), a kitchen, a lounge and 2 meeting rooms. If you want to have a look in person, drop us a line.
Now that we’re launched I’ll hopefully find a bit more time to post about what we have planned and some of the details of the process of setting up the space but for the moment two quick “lessons”.
Customer service sucks giant monkey balls. Holy hell are most people in box stores incompetent. I usually try to stay away from those places on principle but you pretty much have to go there for renos and electronics. Wow. Self service and self checkout would be more effective, even if I had to learn a new system for each place.
Networks are awesome. When I was looking for a first summer job I hated the “I know him, he got me in” type phrases that kept popping up but man, when you’re older you do realize how valuable knowing people and using your network can be. From getting pointed to the right outlet store for appliances and furniture where you save over 50% to espresso machine to help with assembly to a lead on a good great woodworker (Denis Proulx, email me for his contact info) to networking equipment to, of course, a super cool line up of members, networks are awesome.
February 4th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Bravo! Great work!
February 4th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
looks amazing! i can’t wait to come see!
February 4th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
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February 5th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
You’ve done an amazing job with this space.
I’m really looking forward to the events.
I’m also convinced the dynamic will bring lots of new energy to people’s projects.
I also quite like the kitchen table…
February 6th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Congratulations, it’s very impressive having pulled this off so well. When’s the party? :)
February 6th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
congrats!
February 8th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
Bravo, ça semble extra mais pourquoi écrire votre blogue en anglais?
Bonne chance!
February 8th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Merci tout le monde :)
Marie: Si tu fait le tour, tu vas voir que le blogue est en anglais et en français, selon l’humeur du boucher. Cette entrée-ci en particulier est en anglais parce que re-publiée de mon blogue perso ou je l’avais écrite en anglais.
February 9th, 2008 at 9:29 am
nice projet – vraiment sweet :)
voici une annonce pour vous sur ratsdeville – un webzine sur la diversité en arts visuels à Montréal et pro-collaboration :
http://ratsdeville.typepad.com/ratsdeville/2008/02/station-c-busin.html
est-ce que vous seriez ouvert à parer vos beaux murs d’expositions itinérantes ? ça contribuerait à faire connaitre votre business tout en offrant une occasion à des artistes de la relève (de talent) locaux pour montrer leur stock
je m’occupe déjà de 2 espaces d’exposition alternative – studio bizz et le centre la pause bien-être :
http://www.studiobizz.com/fr/page_principale.htm
http://www.lapausebienetre.com/nospauses.asp
dites-moi si ça vous intéresse !
merci et au plaisir !
Éric Bolduc – éditeur ratsdeville
agent commissaire – la dixième porte
February 10th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
congrats this looks awesome, and denis is a champ… so yeah.. party? =)
February 11th, 2008 at 12:09 am
Party should be around the end of the month.
February 20th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Bravo! J’aurais aimé m’impliquer plus dans ce projet mais je compte bien me reprendre en en parlant le plus possible!
Je compte bien aller faire un tour :)
February 22nd, 2008 at 6:11 pm
Félicitations pour avoir mené ce projet à terme! En plus, l’espace a l’air superbe!
March 22nd, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Sure, networks are efficient to share information but closed loops also build common ideologies in a very nasty way. Any member of a network can feel empowered by the kind backing of his siblings and even overperform in many aspects of his activities but he may also loose most of his integrity in the process.
Friendship is good but an overnetworked society is a prison.
Also, paying a fee to get a desk, a chair and free office gossip is so Catbert 8-)