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I applaud this and look forward to reading it even though I'm that bitchy kibitzer.
</div><div><br></div><div>Al</div>
<div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>Al Billings</div><div>http://www.openbuddha.com</div><div>http://makehacklearn.org</div><div><br></div></div>
<p style="color: #A0A0A8;">On Friday, May 31, 2013 at 9:56 PM, Gui Cavalcanti wrote:</p>
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<span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">Al, funny you should mention that. I'm about 75-80% of the way through writing up a primer on how to create a hackerspace/makerspace business model, which features a very frank and upfront assessment of the real costs of running these spaces at various scales (very similar to the insurance primer I sent out recently). I'm writing it for the very reason you state - these kinds of businesses need to be sustainable on earned income, and that means above and beyond breaking even, so that if something traumatic ever happens, you're not taken by surprise.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></span>
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