[Finance] Startup Costs

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Grant,

Where are you starting your Hackerspace?


-Dave

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Dan Hess <dan9186 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel
> http://www.midsouthmakers.org
>
> - Copying one is plagiarism, copying many is research.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Leigh Honeywell <leigh at hypatia.ca> wrote:
>
>> On 10-10-25 03:05 PM, Grant Henninger wrote:
>> > A few friends and I are looking at starting up our own hackerspace.
>> >  We've tried to think through what we'll need to buy in order to get our
>> > place up and running, but I'm sure we're leaving things out.  For those
>> > of you who have been through this process before, what were your startup
>> > costs?
>>
>> Our costs were just under $3000 for first/last months' rent, plus about
>> $1000 on furniture at Ikea.  You can probably save on the latter by
>> spending some quality time with Craigslist, but at the time we just
>> really wanted to get some desks and shelving and be done with it :)
>>
>> -Leigh
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