Workspaces.
Ahoy-hoy Entrepreneurs!
Quite noticeably, workspaces have evolved all over the world, people have taken to the fact that in order to successfully incubate their ventures and seen to the foudnation that builds what would be the future of a startup ecosystem: yes, Treps do need their space.
1/ JFDI (A*Star Labs, #05–03 Blk79)
I take to writing as it is the flush of post-mortem that i have resolved to take up with how i have organised my mobile existence thus far. People who have gone to international schools can only cope with the movements of their parents’ career changes as they could: with a diary and a device in hand. Ready to take up space in their minds what went on, how they went about, and how many friends exactly had they given up/ lost/ earned/ been really spotlessly terrific with. This is nothing new. It is a learning tool, first and foremost (i hate that phrase). It collides with practically every movement that seeks the junction of writing-for-pleasure (as editorial people would), and writing-for-business. This gears us towards what all writers really dilemma about: the really annoying loom of deadlines. To Treps, this is either outsourced to writers, or minion interns if they can afford to. This is also true for social media writing. I think the only special people who will not be able to deal with this would be the hard-core writing of authors, who edit their own work, and capacity for dealing with asynchronous building, and juggling a team of people, who would mostly just annotate how to fit how the hardest founding jobs are actually like shooting mysterious angles in various consonants to their reliant vowels.
2/ BASH (Blk79)
Being a part of the founding team of Girls in Tech in Singapore, the advisory 6 have been hard at finding a space to get the labs and community in a gathering space. Finally, in 2014 it was launched in this space, and had been helped by BASH to establish the ties with community, launch the projects, and partner with the different local startups to get women to code, raise awareness by their networks on meetups.
3/ Woolfworks (19 Carpenter Street)
This space enables women with a team that conducts a robust networking with their events, and a centrally located place that creates a enclave within the community. It is now moved from the East Coast to a more Central location on 19 Carpenter Street.
4/ Collision8 (8th Floor, High Street Centre)
Here’s a quick look at the space that features tables and chairs, a sweet 360-degree view of rivers & the central area, meeting rooms, card ID security-enabled lifts, and an office layout that provides the entrepreneurs a space for more social as well as more private meetings as well as an ample event space.
5/ Silicon Straits (Blk71)
Blk71 days, this is where the WOBE gang are. Check out Graham, and Adrianna (when she is here). <Link to VC directory here>
6/ The Hub (02–01 Cuppage Centre, 128 Prinsep Street)
This is classic IMPACT Hub, launched in Singapore in 2012. Most enterprise-scaled ventures are started here. It is a global network, so you can be a Hubber and co-work in the region as well as obtain a global passport for the rest of the world. Currently at about 15,000 members worldwide.
7/ Working Capitol (1 Keong Saik)
This is in the heart of the city, so access to a strip of food is one of the charms. Also, a good social media grounding — the Hoostuite APAC team is here, as well as events and proper libation with the famous Jason Atherton joints & Tippling Club nearby.
8/ SpaceMob (8 Claymore Hill, #03–01 )
This was started by a bunch of Yahoo guys, and have now scaled into a whole third floor of the otherwise-residential area of Orchard (right smack- in-the-city) where there are counterpoints to TreHaus CoWork, this offers an area of scale that gets to a small to medium to enterprise level groups. Also, the GA school is grounded here.
9/ The Hive (59 New Bridge Rd.)
This is a good network for the southeast asian network (it travels well with HongKong & Bangkok in its network) so you can revive Tuesdays co-working Trial days, as well as Thursday events on the rooftop (Peroni beer & product pitches). It occupies a good 5-story building in the corner of HongKong Street. It has a strip of eateries and cafés along the street.
10/ Just Co. (120 Robinson Rd. #15–01)
The 5 floors this space occupies has good interiors, and has good tier-system for day-pass workers & freelancers. A lot of HR groups are housed here, and choose this centrally located area to supply CBD companies manpower as well as other space resources. It has two locations, but i’ve only tried the one on Robinson Rd. diagonally across the 77 Robinson Rd, home of the new Ogilvy Centre.
11/ Collective Works (Cecil St. #10–01)
The only commendation to this place for me, is that it housed a few of the unicorns when they started. I won’t name names, but this definitely is a thumbs up to their expansion to a few floors from their 10th floor base. Check out with Jonathan O’ Byrne, the founder of the space.
12/ Wallich (Telok Ayer)
This is a little spot of startup space haven in the middle of the city, where the mingle of corporates happen after 5pm. Telok Ayer houses some of the startups that start with 3–10, and eventually scale and move out. Small startup companies who are sent over are people who are sentried into the space from their companies overseas looking to expand into the southeast asian markets.
13/ Co-Space (@Boat Quay) - Review, & Work (And Space) in Progress.
Now, in evaluating what to choose, we may ask of it more than the roster of what the standard offer is currently. People would say, it depends: what do you need, where do you live, what are your top considerations for choosing a space - distance, proximity, refreshments?
My one real consideretion wasn’t merely on the occurrence of a pool and a huge slide, fronting sweeping views of a summer/365 beach nearby: but more, can i get a weekend pass? In case i need the space and quiet one saturday to just get agile and write like mad, standing at desk or sitting down.
And of course, they said yes sure, here’s your (fingerprint) key card. *Tink.*
