[Finance] Finance Digest, Vol 5, Issue 4

[Jeff Cotten]

I'm very interested in the TechShop / for-profit model and finance
structure, and would enjoy reading more discussions about it.

I think the two models have potential for borrowing from each other, and may
end up using the same finance tools, have some similar membership / customer
recruiting issues, etc.



On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Leigh Honeywell <leigh at hypatia.ca> wrote:

> On 10-10-28 07:20 PM, Grant Henninger wrote:
> > I don't intend to build a hackerspace with the only intention of making
> > money.  I work for a non-profit now and am very involved in my
> > community.  I'm fairly passionate about helping people.  My focus here
> > on the budget was simply because this is the finance mailing list.  I
> > thought that this was where these types of discussions were suppose to
> > happen.
> >
> > -Grant
>
> This is indeed what this list is for.  But it sounds like you're
> intending to run something quite different from the spaces most of us
> run... so I'm not sure why you're asking on here :)
>
> To put this in context - last week I had a long conversation with a
> friend who's in the process of setting up a similarly-structured space
> to ours, but which is going to have a completely different crowd with
> different interests.  For his music studio co-op, the way we do things
> in hackerspaces was relevant.  For what you're describing, the common
> interests (technology/hacking) don't overcome the different structures,
> and the conversation is less productive :/
>
> -Leigh
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