Michelle Woo, the general manager at Hub Singapore, spoke in a session in CUAsia 2017 where she addressed the question - How to approach scaling? Every coworking space is at a different stage and has different needs; since her topic was on the scale, she shared tips on how it can grow from really early stage pioneer companies to high growth, and to see if they can get established. Hub Singapore has 12 Hubs in Asia and 86 Hubs around…
Coworking spaces are community driven, often products of passion, but if you can't market it or sell you can't keep doing it. It is critical for any business to sustain growth. Mario Berta, described by some as a high-intensity sales monster, is the founder and CEO of Flyspaces. He spoke in a session titled ‘Sales and marketing make the world go round’ in CUAsia 2017. Flyspaces is an aggregator that works with coworking spaces and other real estate partners across…
The aim was to start CUAsia 2017 with a bang, and they did just that by having two pioneers from the coworking field; Alex Hillman and Adam Teterus, as their guest speaker for the first session. They operate a space called Indy Hall in Philadelphia; in addition to being the founder of Indy Hall, Alex also runs a podcast called ‘Coworking Weekly,’ where he loves to focus on topics that revolve around coworking, cooperation, and people. They decided to frame…
How would you go about designing a coworking space? With so many ideas out there, Mr. Sombat Ngamschlermsak , an interior designer from Bangkok has decided to shed some light into the design aspects of coworking, with the insights he gathered through his journey from a corporate world to a startup business. Mr. Sombat operates two spaces in Bangkok, Paperspace, and KliqueDesk. He has been working in work-class design for the last seventeen years; his career started in a company…
Greenpoint Coworking is a coworking space based in Greenpoint South Africa and was founded in July of 2016 by Erik Brits and his wife Rudelee. Together they have given the coworking space a fresh approach. Erik is very educated, having attained degrees in Physics, Astrophysics and Economics. After completing his studies, he entered a startup competition where he did fantastically and won! He spent a year chasing this dream, but decided to call it quits and focus his attention elsewhere.…
