Satellite Telework Centers wins Red Herring “100 North America” award
June 25, 2010
Satellite Telework Centers announced today that it has been named a winner of the Red Herring 100 North America awards for 2010. The award, whose past winners include Google, Yahoo!, Facebook, Twitter and Salesforce.com, is given to companies demonstrating the ability to disrupt an industry or create an entirely new industry via an innovative business model.
Satellite Telework Centers in BoingBoing
June 21, 2010
BoingBoing guest blogger Chris Arkenberg interviewed Satellite Telework Centers co-founder Jim Graham and part of the discussion included the new ways people want to work.
You can read the entire interview here.
SC Sentinel – Felton work center expands to downtown Santa Cruz
April 29, 2010
From today’s Santa Cruz Sentinel:
SANTA CRUZ – Out of the coffee shop and into the cubicle.
That’s the trend in downtown Santa Cruz, anyway, as Felton’s Satellite Telework Center opens its second work space for telecommuters, independent consultants and the self-employed in the New Sentinel building on Church Street, next to Internet provider Cruzio and nonprofit Ecology Action.
Satellite, whose current location offers rentable cubicles, cafe tables, conference rooms and office necessities like printers and phones will be the second such business to open off of Pacific Avenue. NextSpace Coworking + Innovation offers similar benefits on the corner of Pacific and Cooper Street.
But the heads of both shops say their businesses are so unique – and demand so great – that they should be able to thrive just a few blocks away from each other.
“You hear a lot about work-life balance, and this is a part of it, separating between work and home,” said CEO Barbara Sprenger.
The difference between each business is palpable. Satellite’s Felton location is understated, with a noise cancellation system keeping cubicles quiet and tasteful paintings by local artists on the wall. The business’ target demographic, said Sprenger and Marketing Director Jim Graham, is telecommuters, consultants and startups who need to rent office space by the hour, day, week or month. They feature a key card system similar to a hotel’s that tracks time spent inside Satellite, what printers or other office machinery was used and bills clients accordingly. About 50 people work there.NextSpace features red trim and Santa Cruz artist Steve Hosmer’s wall-covering, whimsical paintings. Customers purchase flat-rate “memberships,” which CEO Jeremy Neuner describes as buying into a community. NextSpace’s target demographic is independent, creative professionals seeking like-minded folks to work with. Nearly 200 people work there.
While some telecommuters base out of NextSpace, they don’t comprise one-third of its members like at Satellite, Neuner said.
“The nature of work is changing. People are going to continue to seek alternative work arrangements,” Neuner said. “We provide work arrangements that will work for some people. Satellite provides work arrangements that will work for some people.”
Even expansion plans are different. Along with downtown, Satellite is eyeing other locations in Westside Santa Cruz and Scotts Valley, along with Pleasanton, Campbell and Morgan Hill. Sprenger and Graham said they research census data to learn commute patterns and income levels of communities where Satellite might be a good fit.
NextSpace, on the other hand, is seeking out “urban cores” where creative entrepreneurs now hole up in coffee shops with their laptop computers. Neuner declined to specify where NextSpace will open next, only to say that it will be in a major market outside Santa Cruz County.
With more commuters working from home and laid-off residents becoming self-employed, Sprenger and Neuner said demand for both types of space is only growing.
“We offer the same type of service, but it’s a slightly different clientele,” Graham said. “Both of us are taking advantage of this change in how people work.”
Satelltie CEO to speak at second annual Green Trade Network conference, Santa Cruz on Sept. 25
September 21, 2009
Satellite Telework Centers CEO Barbara Sprenger will give a presentation on the nature of “21st Century Villages” at the second annual Green Trade Network conference on September 25 in Santa Cruz.
The conference, hosted by the Monterey Bay International Trade Association, will be held at Cocoanut Grove at the Boardwalk in Santa Cruz.
The U.S. is in the best position to set the global standards to create the 21st Century eco-city model for world consumption, The vision of developing an eco-city that is inexpensive to develop and much smaller in size than ones being established in Abu Dhabi and China and that can be replicated easily to meet the demands of millions throughout the world is possible.
Independent, efficient and more secure local energy sources utilized in conjunction with the major utility providers are also key elements to new sustainable cities in the U.S. An expanded view of a future power generation model that includes municipal, local and co-op power utilities including a consumer choice for ‘green energy’ options will be discussed.
Examples of new ‘mini-grid’ point of us generation technologies that can bridge technologies and effectively integrate the central grid with regional, municipal and local inputs of power will also be presented.
“First Friday” free co-working day – July 3 at The Satellite
June 30, 2009
It’s the day before a holiday weekend. Traffic on Highway 17 will be insane. Isn’t that enough of a reason to stay on this side of the Hill?
Join us this Friday, July 3 for a free co-working day at The Satellite. You bring the laptop and we’ll provide the T1-based WiFi, all the coffee you can drink (we buy it from The White Raven) and a comfortable space for you to spread out, get some work done and meet some interesting people.
Our cubicles and café space will be available on a first come, first served basis and we’ll be open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Some of them might be reserved for our members).
If you have any questions or want more information, visit us online at http://www.thesatelliteinc.com or call The Satellite at 831.222.2100.
We’re at 6265 Highway 9 in Felton. We’re within easy walking distance of coffee (the White Raven is two doors down), food (Redwood Pizza, Taqueria Vallarta and the phenomenal deli counter at New Leaf) and Don Quixote’s, for those who want to do some after work brainstorming.
Did we mention it’s free?
Hope to see you here!
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