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> Charges $700 to $800 a month for a “desk" Wow. Not even the Hub charges that much and IMO, the Hub has a far better community and workspace.

• potatolicious 13y ago
  The Hub has a better community because it has set criteria on who gets to rent desks there, which seem to generally boil down to "do good". This doesn't describe most startups. Most startups wouldn't be able to work out of the Hub unless rules were bent so far you'd risk creating a black hole. I worked out of RocketSpace for a while while the company I worked for was still shopping for offices in SF. Nice space, good location, lots of room. I trialed some other coworking spaces and found them wanting - extremely short supply of dedicated desks or poor locations (two were in the glorious section of SOMA where you'd get to play dodge-the-crackhead at all hours of the day). Space was good, amenities were good, location was convenient, just pricey. Culturally though somewhat wanting, but that seems par for the course when is comes to modern startups, coworking space or no. A lot of people who are perennially there but you never see them launch anything. A lot of parties after hours where you'd meet hear the most disingenuous pitches known to mankind. If I can count the number of times I've been pitched to join someone's hot startup that's going to be "worth $1bn a year from now!" while I was working out of that space... Now that I think of it, I have a pretty cynical view about startup culture that probably traces mostly back to that place. Ah well, the offices were genuinely pretty nice, we got a lot of work done there before the actual office firmed up.