Laurent Hollande is the CEO of Pacific Workplaces and of CloudVO. He shared the experience of Next Space coworking space's takeover by his serviced office company, in Northern California.
13. What did Nextspace do wrong?
1. Too geographically dispersed
2. Unplug unproductive experiments too late
3. Lacked business processes, standards, weak technology
4. Insufficient inventory of meeting rooms/day offices
5. Did not sell enough services beyond coworking membership
6. Did not use channels very well
15. What we did
• Kept Nextspace Brand
• Kept Nextspace web site, Focused on PacificWorkplaces.com
• Realized the models will converge, accelerate the process
• Bring Pac training, support and processes to bear
• Switch to WUN Systems/KUBE, Intacct
• Develop Virtual Office and Meeting Room business
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