Company Visited: HiVE
Where: Vancouver, BC Canada
Website: http://www.hivevancouver.com
Mission per company’s website: “A shared work space with a dynamic cafe-like studio culture, our
mission is to catalyze opportunities for collaboration and innovation
amongst a community of change-makers in an actively hosted, shared work and
event space.”
Final Thoughts: We met with Tera. A multi use space that
hold Gold LEED certification. Bike friendly environment where encourage bike to
work. The funding comes from $30,000 grant from city among other grants and
memberships. Two years ago the company had a vision of share space and company
is about to reach first anniversary. 70 organizations (IT, Biodiesel, Policy
Making, Architectures, Story Tellers) currently participate and the cost of hot
desk is fifty dollar for four hours. Participating companies’ brainstorms with
ideals and carry action forward for a solution. It consists of a very young
demographics and collaborates with 5 other network share spaces to improve
business. Help is provided little and big by other
organizations; for example Canadian post donated mailbox and Japanese consulate
donated lockers. This company represents how sustainability is a mixture of
many disciplines and the interaction among each other is crucial for the final
outcome. It is a good way to start a company when do not have enough capital to
begin with.
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