All,<div><br></div><div>Thank you for your helpful comments. We're looking at a slightly different model than most hackerspaces. We want to run more like a for-profit service company than a co-op. One of the reasons we want to buy a lot of the equipment up front is so we have a full set of services we can offer and keep early adopters coming back. However, I think you all have a good point about ways to cut down on the costs. There is probably quite a bit I can cut out that isn't really needed. I'll sharpen my pencil and see what I can cut.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Grant Henninger<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Brain Tank <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thebraintank@gmail.com">thebraintank@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div>Grant,<br></div><div><br></div><div>Where are you starting your Hackerspace?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
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-Dave</div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Dan Hess <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dan9186@gmail.com" target="_blank">dan9186@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">We've yet to move into a location as we're shopping around, currently we're planning roughly $1500 for first/last months rent, $1500 for rainy day funds to smooth out the times where there may be excess vs not enough members, and probably not even $1000 in furniture and other move in costs.<div>
<br></div><div>I think that you'll find that anything you think you just really need, your group will find a rather creative way to obtain it while keeping the costs down. Necessity is the mother of invention. We want pretty much all of those same things you've listed, but are certain to be obtained over time and after we've moved in. There's plenty of hacking/making that can go on in a shop that doesn't have an excess of tools and I would personally think you wouldn't want to stave all of the growth of the group that comes with having a space for lack of some equipment.<br clear="all">
<br>Thanks,<br>Daniel<div><a href="http://www.midsouthmakers.org" target="_blank">http://www.midsouthmakers.org</a><br><br>- Copying one is plagiarism, copying many is research.<div><div><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Leigh Honeywell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:leigh@hypatia.ca" target="_blank">leigh@hypatia.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>On 10-10-25 03:05 PM, Grant Henninger wrote:<br>
> A few friends and I are looking at starting up our own hackerspace.<br>
> We've tried to think through what we'll need to buy in order to get our<br>
> place up and running, but I'm sure we're leaving things out. For those<br>
> of you who have been through this process before, what were your startup<br>
> costs?<br>
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</div>Our costs were just under $3000 for first/last months' rent, plus about<br>
$1000 on furniture at Ikea. You can probably save on the latter by<br>
spending some quality time with Craigslist, but at the time we just<br>
really wanted to get some desks and shelving and be done with it :)<br>
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-Leigh<br>
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