We’ve been organizing & running startup events since 2014 with the sole purpose of growing and strengthening the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Timisoara. Connecting the doers with the business people, helping community members grasp entrepreneurship by joining events like Startup Survivor, Startup Weekend or Startup Coffee. By autumn 2016, the need for a space to call it our own, a place for all our the events to take place, it become clear to us. We couldn’t just move the events anymore from one location to another.
This is when we came with the CoworkTimisoara concept, and started prepping our first location (Tineretului). This space (and the business around it) was built in the spirit of what we preach — lean startup all the way — a small space, bootstrapped, so we can prospect the market and test if there really is a need for commercial co-working spaces in Timisoara.
You can read our entire story in this Medium post.