Hi Ryan,
First of all, sorry I didn't reply you in my previous YC post. I was going to but got sidetracked looking in the startup hub thing.
Thank you for the advice. To me Burlingame is not far at all from SF. I was thinking I'm forgoing all the south bay people since it's quite a drive from down there. But from SF, it isn't too far, especially when this location is right off the 101 freeway exit. But more importantly, I was not really trying to suit everyone. Actually, yes, I _was_ trying to suit most people at first. But after not getting much replies, I figure I had to go a different route. I figure that I may have to choose a location first, and then let them decide if that's what they want. So I try to look at different locations available and imagine what I can do with the space. Once I can imagine what I can do with it (how I can setup and divide up the space), I let everyone know about it. Those who happen to be close to that location will be "lucky". Those who aren't will have to decide whether they want to make the commute or try to setup carpooling or forget about it. So if this location doesn't work out (still not too much response so far), I'll see what the next location brings. That may be in SF or further south. Hope you get a better idea of what I'm trying to do here.
oh, yes, this Burlingame location is right between 2 Bart stations, but I won't call them close by since it's like 1 mile away from each station.
Yup, that all makes sense. I bet the San Francisco response depends a lot on whether or not you own a car. My impression of San Franciscans is that none of them own cars, and don't want to drive, because my 3 or 4 Frisco friends are like that. If most of your target market does own cars and is OK with a commute, then my hunch is totally wrong. ;-)
A recent survey we did of over 120 people on the coworking list stated that location, location, location was crucial. Oh...and that meant close to public transportation and not a big commute (on buses and trains) from their homes.
please up vote so more people knows about it so we can get started sooner! My last post regarding this only got 3 votes so it was buried in less than half a day.
Great, finally got a response!
It's good to know at least someone is as excited as I am about this :)
Well, I am not thinking about south bay either since I'm in SF, so Menlo Park is pretty much as south as I will go. So are you saying you were planning to move to SF regardless?
As for helping, see my edited original post (so every msg stays focused).
I live in SF, so this will be in the SF area, but I may look as far south as Menlo Park if space is good or high demand for further south.
I will try to throw a website together in a week or so, but in the meantime, please post here or shoot me an email at jklemail at gmail . com if you're interested in helping me out or in joining.
I'm trying to work on a project too, so I will need all the help I can get. Right now I am browsing for office spaces in the SF area and Peninsula area in craigslist to see the price ranges and what's available. But it's really just surveying now since it's impossible to decide on it without more feedback and definite interest. But what I'm shooting for is cheap location with good parking and hopefully some windows to sun light. I am estimating 200 sq ft per member (100-150 for actual cube space, depending on single person or group, and extra spaces for walkways, lunch area, bathroom, etc). So I guess once there's more feedback, you guys can help me out in hunting down good locations in either craigslist or other sources. Base on my fuzzy math of 200 sq ft/cube, we should be aiming for ~$1/sq ft (hopefully less, depending on location, etc.) in order get it down to the ~$250/member/month mark. Of course, that's just fuzzy math, I'm sure we'll have to adjust that once we know the actual # of signups and what they want.
Here's my filtered link to craigslist:
SF:
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/off/sfc?maxAsk=6000&minSqft=2000
peninsula: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/off/pen?maxAsk=6000&minSqft=2000
Financial and time wise, I'm looking for someone who have extra money or time or both to partner with me so I don't have to take all the burden. Without 1 or more financial partners, I won't be able to do anything before getting some kind of deposits/initial rentals from early signups.
ps. can you guys up vote this "news" if you are at least interested so I can get a feel of interest level and also it will be ranked higher so more people can see and know about it?
