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Places like this seem to be popping up here and there...how well do they do? Is this a truly viable (in the long-term) business?

kragen 17y ago
Hackerdojo is not a business. What is wrong with you people? This is like asking whether reading or sex is "a viable business".
- seiji 17y ago
  Calm down. Breathe. Hacker Dojo is a California Nonprofit Mutual Benefit Corporation. Fully tax-deductible federal 501(c)(3) status will hopefully happen when things settle down.
  - dweekly 17y ago
    Technically a 501(c)(6), actually.
    - seiji 17y ago
      I didn't realize there were so many options: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501(c) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501(c) 501(c)(3) would work for the Dojo under Education, [Technical] Literacy, and Prevention of Cruelty to Children or Animals. Also, being as helpful as ever, google tells me 501(c)(3) = 450,588,064,374 m/s
- sutro 17y ago
  Hacker Dojo is like sex? This must be the kind of sex one has with a roomful of 20-year-old "ninjas" obsessively typing the acronyms PG, HN, YC, DHH, and RoR into their MacBook Pros. As Paris Hilton would say, that's hot.
- philh 17y ago
  Okay, it's not a business. The important part of the question is whether it's viable, which is equally valid to ask of a nonprofit.
  - catch23 17y ago
    If we get 40 more members, we'll be viable. Considering that we managed to get 35 members in the last month, I think it's possible to triple that number given that there's more entrepreneurs here than anywhere else. Visit any coffee shop in silicon valley and you'll see why.
catch23 17y ago
I don't think hackerspaces would be considered a real business. Most of them are non-profit and community driven. If you live somewhere with enough hackers, it makes sense to have something like this. My grandmother has a "hackerspace" for their gang of mahjongg players. All the gamers put in money to rent out a huge office where they can play 24/7. More info here: http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Hackerspaces http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Hackerspaces

kragen 17y ago

Hackerdojo is not a business. What is wrong with you people? This is like asking whether reading or sex is "a viable business".

seiji 17y ago
Calm down. Breathe. Hacker Dojo is a California Nonprofit Mutual Benefit Corporation. Fully tax-deductible federal 501(c)(3) status will hopefully happen when things settle down.
- dweekly 17y ago
  Technically a 501(c)(6), actually.
  - seiji 17y ago
    I didn't realize there were so many options: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501(c) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501(c) 501(c)(3) would work for the Dojo under Education, [Technical] Literacy, and Prevention of Cruelty to Children or Animals. Also, being as helpful as ever, google tells me 501(c)(3) = 450,588,064,374 m/s
sutro 17y ago
Hacker Dojo is like sex? This must be the kind of sex one has with a roomful of 20-year-old "ninjas" obsessively typing the acronyms PG, HN, YC, DHH, and RoR into their MacBook Pros. As Paris Hilton would say, that's hot.
philh 17y ago
Okay, it's not a business. The important part of the question is whether it's viable, which is equally valid to ask of a nonprofit.
- catch23 17y ago
  If we get 40 more members, we'll be viable. Considering that we managed to get 35 members in the last month, I think it's possible to triple that number given that there's more entrepreneurs here than anywhere else. Visit any coffee shop in silicon valley and you'll see why.

catch23 17y ago

I don't think hackerspaces would be considered a real business. Most of them are non-profit and community driven. If you live somewhere with enough hackers, it makes sense to have something like this. My grandmother has a "hackerspace" for their gang of mahjongg players. All the gamers put in money to rent out a huge office where they can play 24/7. More info here: http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Hackerspaces http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Hackerspaces