StartRaum Göttingen: Efficient coworking management thanks to coapp
The founding team of the coworking space StartRaum has transformed an old post office building in Göttingen into a center of creativity and innovation. On 1300 square metres, people and companies work together and maintain an active community that regularly organizes events and workshops. With around 150 members, the coworking space not only offers a place to work, but also a platform for exchanging ideas and forming new connections; there is also a café open to the public and a seminar center where groups - some from the region, some from further afield - can rent space for training courses or workshops.
Jonas Brunnert, co-founder of the coworking space StartRaum
High efficiency and good infrastructure
"At StartRaum, we offer people the opportunity to work efficiently and successfully implement their projects. We offer the right infrastructure for this and establish contacts with like-minded people," explains Jonas Brunnert, co-founder of StartRaum. He is also Creative Director and Managing Director of the creative agency Nebenraum, which carries out innovation and communication projects. Together with the two other founders, Nils Brunnert, who is responsible for the gastronomy - the GARTENHAUS - and the design thinker (HPI) and systemic team developer Viva Brunnert, he drives the vision of StartRaum Göttingen and leads the team of 12.
With so many responsible roles, flexibility and efficiency in the organization are crucial, as Jonas Brunnert can confirm. With coapp, he says, his team has found an optimal solution for StartRaum that makes internal communication and membership management much easier.
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"We are effectively saving ourselves a full-time position"
The first contact was made via the Hafven coworking space in Hanover, whose founders recommended the coapp community tool to them early on. The StartRaum was immediately enthusiastic about the possibility of not only networking the community with each other, but also using more extensive features that promote mutual exchange and massively simplify administration. "This has revolutionized internal communication and administration for us. The entire administrative management with the people who work here is made much easier by coapp. With Features such as automated registration, invoicing, SEPA and termination, coapp significantly reduces the administrative workload." Jonas explains that this saves a full-time position and allows the team to concentrate on the essentials.
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Analog meetings thanks to digital networking
There's plenty to do here anyway: the coworking space itself offers a wide range of amenities, 24/7 access, modern workstations, meeting and workshop rooms, a kitchen and garden, printers and scanners as well as telephone booths for undisturbed conversations. In addition, members can make use of business addresses, mailbox and parcel acceptance, as well as a makerspace with 3D printer and laser cutter. coapp is very useful for booking all this equipment and space.
"Our vision is to give a diverse community not only a stable working infrastructure, but also the opportunity to network and make new contacts," emphasizes Jonas, "coapp makes it easier for us to communicate onboarding, offboarding and short-term announcements or community events at an early stage, and also for the members themselves to book event and workshop rooms and network with each other. Most of them create a profile and can meet for a coffee or initiate new projects."
For StartRaum Göttingen, coapp is at the heart of internal organization and networking. "It's a cool mix of offline and online - the people are the target channel, but the initiation takes place digitally. coapp helps our community to grow together and generate new ideas." With coapp as a central hub for networking and administration, StartRaum Göttingen is ideally equipped to continue being a place where creative ideas thrive and innovative projects become reality.
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