 This is Think Tech Kauai, Community Matters here. Aloha and how you doing? Welcome to another exciting and thrilling episode of Hibachi Talk. Gardo the techs out here, good old buddy, Andrew the security guy. Everybody, aloha. Please grab yourself a chair, pull up a libation and join us or we meet lovely Ann Weber. She's here. She's from co-working. She's a co-working community manager at Impact. You got it, I got it. Almost said hello again. Yeah, you got three that. Mental, mentally. Look at our new background. So we have a hammock. We're talking about work, but we have a hammock. I don't know what you think. I'm ready for it. Balance, balance. We're quite a balance, quite a balance. Yeah, John Connolly was the guy that did this photograph. And we're ready to get it for free. All I have to do is say his name. So how's that? Say it again. John Connolly. Can we get another picture now? Yeah, I'll check it out, check it out with him. So anyway, so that's all I had to do. Anyway, co-working. We'll find out about that in a minute, but let's find out a little bit about yourself. So tell us about yourself, Ann. Where'd you go to school? Where'd you grow up? Yeah, I grew up in Los Angeles. I've been out here for four and a half years. I went to Loyola Marymount University for college. So I stayed out in Los Angeles and then had the opportunity to move out to Hawaii. And I taught third grade for four years. Wow. In Hawaii night. Oh, at Hawaii night. Yeah. And I'm the only girl out at Hawaii night. Yeah, yeah, I loved it. I loved it. It was good and great. I just wish the pay was better. Oh yeah, well, welcome to the state of Hawaii. Yeah, yeah. So I saw this gap. Educators aren't talking to business people enough. And how are we going to build that community? So that's what drew me to Impact Hub originally. So Impact Hub is a franchise or it's a standalone? So how does that work? So it's part of an association of 102 Impact Hubs globally. So every member has access to each Impact Hub around the world for at least three days. But we're not a franchise. So it's a brain trust, basically. We have some branding assets that we pull together. And we have some calls where we can talk about programming and figure out best practices together. But other than that, they're operated independently. So explain to me what an Impact Hub is. So what is that? So it's a co-working community and event space, specializing in building community around an Impact Focus area. So each Impact Hub around the world has their own focus area. So Oakland does houselessness. Los Angeles focuses on water rights. And Honolulu is focusing on education and sustainability. Oh, see, I didn't know that. I say, for some reason, I just thought it was a bunch of tech startup guys and girls. They got together and tried to start up some kind of business. Yeah, and it is that. It's absolutely. And it's equal opportunity, so we don't restrict our membership based on those two industries. We see the value in getting lots of businesses together and learning about those two issues as well. So if I want to, if I've got a business, which I do, and I need a space to hang my hat, Impact Hub Honolulu is a place where I could actually go and say I want a desk, an office. How does that work? We have all of the above. So you can get your mail there. That's your, can be your registered, is there a phone line there? Or is it on mobile? It's all mobile, but you could get a hard line IP address in. So then you could have VoIP coming in. We have different options. So co-working, which is you see any available seat, you're allowed to work there. The Wi-Fi is free and included. There's designated desks. So it's your desk, nobody else can work there. So you don't have to worry about, I want that spot by the window. This is my spot that I like to be. You also have a file cabinet so that you can lock stuff up. The next step up from that is the office spaces. How many are there? We have 27. Wow, 27 offices? 25 are full. So there's two left and they're not finished yet. Are they like weekly, annually? Monthly. Also you can get an office for a month, okay. So it's month to month and then the desk space can be by the hour or by the day. Or what's the minimal kind of thing we get? So we have a starter membership, which is two days a month for $30. And any additional day you want on top of that is $10. So I could go there twice a month for $30. So those are days you just plan to work in town, see clients in town. So you come to town and I see. That's not a bad deal. Oh yeah, so there's meeting space as well. Is there video conferencing? Yeah, so we have video conferencing capability, three different size meeting rooms and any of the AV needs. VTC alone is good to have. You know how many people have that? No, that's probably a value add. So there's an extra charge to use those? No, it's included in the meeting room price. It's included in, oh, so there's a meeting room, okay, there's a meeting room price. There is, so members get them at 40% off. So once you're a membership, then you get 40% off each of our meeting rooms. And the small meeting room gets you four hours a month. Included. So you pay so how much, how much for four hours a month? The meeting room price. So if you have an unlimited membership, then that's $215 a month. That's 24 seven access to the space. You can sit at any open seat and you get the four hours a month. Wow, for 200 and change a month. Well, can you do that? VTC alone is really good. I mean, a lot of people just do Skype, it's not very professional. We're doing video conferencing amongst people. That's a powerful benefit right there. Yeah, but I'm just looking at office space. Take a look. Yeah. Office space of $215 a month. You said 24 by seven, unlimited usage, and I got my own desk? As long as there's one empty. That's open. As long as there's an open desk, I, that's. That's unlimited. So that's different than the two days, so that's unlimited. So anytime you want to stop in long as there's a desk space, you can have it and you can, and you schedule the conference rooms, obviously. Yeah, and it's all bookable through our app. So you can see which ones are open and you can book them in 15 minute increments. So if you just need to pop it in. Oh, wow. Wow. I just love it. It's like it's good for business. This is like Uber, this is like an Uber office space. Yeah, it's on demand. Does the subscription transfer across or if I'm in Paris or wherever, there's another one. I can just, my time and stuff applies there as well. Yeah, so it's called Impact Hub Passport. And at every Impact Hub, there's 102 worldwide, you have at least three days of access. Wow. Some are more generous. So it's like reciprocal. It's like a reciprocal. Like a collective. So if I go to San Francisco or I've gone to coworking, notice I didn't say colo, coworking spaces in California. And it's been terrific because if you're downtown and you need some place to hang your hat, and I'm not in a member, I just paid, I forget, it was like 15 bucks for two or three hours. It's far better than Starbucks. It was, I'm not a lot of neat people as well. So, but with the, Is there coffee machine? Yes, free coffee for members. Free coffee? Free coffee? That's it, they speak. Okay, what kind of coffee is it? Little cups or is it that? No, it's good organic coffee. No K-cups because we're trying to be sustainable. So it's, we have a nice coffee maker. You can crop your milk if you want. Who wakes the coffee? Oh, you make them yourself. You make your own. This is, someone comes early in the morning. Well, no, our hosts make the coffee. Really? But if you are there 24 seven and you want your two AM cup of coffee, then you're welcome to make it. Wow. And hostesses who are managing the space and so on. So how much space do you have? I mean, this is, Yeah, it's 14,000 square feet. So it's quite large. It's the largest co-working space in the space. There's 40,000 square feet in an acre. So you're looking at a quarter of an acre. Yeah, we got a little quarter acre in Cacaaco. Where was it? What was it before? It was the World Gym. Oh, okay. Oh, the World Gym in Cacaaco. Yeah. On Clean Street. Mm-hmm. Oh, that's big. What about parking? It's 50 cents an hour in-house and there's plenty of parking available. Parking all around the streets and so on, I mean. You know, that's a great location with all those condos coming up and everybody, you know, that all the millennials going into the condos and things like that. So are the rest of your programs as full as your offices? So since we're finishing the space right now, the co-working is available. People are using the space. We have over a hundred members, currently. Wow. The offices are reserved, but they're not done yet. Sure. We're waiting on some materials to come in. So that's what we're focusing on right now and then we'll really push for programming. So how's the mind, how's the mind shares? Do people meet people and sit around? What are you working on? What am I working on? If you're focused on, is it education or education transfer or just anything around? Yeah, so it's, I mean, right now it's anyone with any business issues. They're free to collaborate with anyone sitting near them. So, you know, we're sitting at a table. You might do digital marketing and I might have a product that I'm trying to figure out how do I access this market better. You have that collaboration and it happens organically and our hosts are there also to make sure that the right people are meeting the right people. Yeah, that's so interesting. And do people have a, is there a, hey, we have a new member. Do you get a two minute pitch or two hours in the room or something or how does that work? Yeah, so on our blog, we do quick interviews of every single member. We're still building our bank because we did expand quite quickly. So you'll have that blog space. We also have a searchable directory. So you can put up your bio and that bio is searchable and so you can find whatever it is that you're looking for. As part of the Impact Hub global partnership, there's, they have their own social network called HubNet. So then you have access to over 15,000 members globally. Wow. Wow. That is neat. I love the concept. I love the coolest thing. Has it been Hawaii for a while and you just got a bigger space or? No, so we started as Proto Hub as kind of a prototype to the idea while we went through the Impact Hub approval process. So we were Proto Hub on Kyave in Kakaako for one year, had over 300 programs, 160 members and figured out, yeah, this will work here. Well, especially here, because everything's so expensive. So I mean, it's a great, especially now I got a lot of work at home. There's how many 50,000 small businesses in Hawaii. So everybody, everybody could use a, what's the zip code, the Bishop Street zip code? Everybody would like to have a zip code on Bishop Street. 17 or whatever, yeah. Got to have it downtown. So, you know, when the one was on Kyave, was that the one that was on the Makai side, that was on the ocean side? Or was that Box Jelly? Yeah, that's Box Jelly. That was Box Jelly. Okay. Are you guys cloppetition, competing? Yeah, we actually meet once a month to figure out ways that we can elevate co-working. Because a lot of it is it's education. People don't know what it is. They hear this word and they think like, oh, we have to work together somehow. Or they just don't understand that this is accessible. This is, you know, you don't need to sit in a Starbucks and listen to the blender making frappuccinos really loud and the unsecure internet. And, you know, just all of the issues that go along with that. You have a professional space with a community of people who are also working hard on their small businesses and all of the amenities that you'd need and programming built around your needs as well. Well, this is cool. This is cool. Well, guess what? We've already been through half the program. Wow. So, I know, it goes quick. So, we're gonna take a short break and we're gonna pay some bills and you haven't met Angus yet. No. It's a rare, wonderful treat. Anyway, so Angus will be back. He's gonna talk about some new venture he's getting into. Maybe he can get some space down at your co-working facility. Yeah. All right, so we will be back with Ann Weber and we'll talk about Impact Hub after about a minute break. This is Think Tech Hawaii, Raising Public Awareness. 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This is Hibachi Talk and I got a quick reminder for you that October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month. Governor Higay also declared at Hawaii Cyber Security Awareness Month. So there are Cyber Security Awareness events going on all over town. So if you're a consumer and you're not really sure what to do about your home computer or your network savviness, check out one of those free things that are going on at libraries and malls and all kinds of places around town across all islands. So get out there and check it out Cyber Security Awareness Month. So up your game. All right Angus, what's going on buddy? Good to see you man. Hey, good to see you man. Hey, good to see you. Did you see Ann? Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Gigi Lassi. You didn't even know Bob Lassi. You didn't even smile, you just said Gigi in the head. I think it's like an impact hub got in my head. I'm an impact kind of hub. I got it together. It's an impact in my heart. Yeah, I got a new venture I'm working in. Yeah, I've got gadgets and all kinds of things, but I'm getting into the ATM business. Okay. The Bitcoin ATM. Oh awesome. Yeah, so I'm working on it with this company called General Bytes. They make the largest producer of Bitcoin ATMs in the world. Wow. And we didn't have any here in Hawaii yet because they didn't shut down our exchanges or something. Oh no, we got another way to add. My exchange is out of Scotland, so we don't have to worry about it yet. Oh, are you shutting down? No, I'm not going to happen. Anyway, they got close to 800 ATMs in about 37 countries. Okay. So they're going to be bringing it in because one of my favorite coins they're going to have in it. What? The same Bitcoin. Potcoin. Potcoin. There's a new coin coming up called Potcoin. And the Potcoin is out there because you can't have put the cash in the local banks. It's still a federal offense to have Potcoin. Oh, get it. So you can buy Potcoin. So this is happening all over the country. So it's a $100 billion Potcoin market. Holy cow. Holy cow. Right now, Potcoin sells for six cents. You're going to be richer than you were. Yeah, I always keep my money. I still get the same Bitcoin I made 100 years ago. And so here's my new venture. So watch out for the Bitcoin ATMs around two. You'll see them real soon. Right on. All righty. Anyway, make a statement. Put your ring gate free wherever you be. Hello. Ha. Nice. So Angus is getting the Bitcoin ATM business people so you know where to cash your money in. Get on down there and check it out. Let us know where that's going to be located when it gets here. There'll be a few of them around. And we're back with Han-Rever from, what's it called, a whole big five? Yeah. Impact Hub. Impact Hub, sorry. Impact Hub, all of you. Yeah, they share a nice load. I think I have a picture of your campus. Do you call it a campus? Yeah. It's 14,000 square feet. It's a lot of space. So I took a picture from your website. Is this yours or someone else's? That's ours. That's yours? Yeah, it's beautiful. That's awesome. That is really, really cool. I think it's, what and where is co-working? That's what I said, what and where is co-working? If we get a Hibachi talk office, so then there's two and a third of us. Because Angus likes to, there's just him and we're just hangers on him. Look at what it is, but we're going to his bank. So how does that work? Look at him at this bank. So you register per person then, not like a company, and then they all, you know, you got six or eight people stopping by sharing time. Yeah, so each office comes with one unlimited membership. So one person can have 24-7 access. And then each additional person that uses the office just needs to get a membership of their own. So however that works. Whichever type they would want. Maybe they only get the two or four hours or whatever. So what's a membership, like your Gold's Gym membership? Is it an annual membership? So you, I'm sorry, go ahead. Oh, it's monthly as well. So everything is month to month. It's meant to be very flexible so that you can scale your business quickly if you need to take on other employees or... Do you accept Bitcoin for payment? Um, no, not yet. There's your question. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Then your ATM will really fly down there. Yeah, if you use, there's a couple of software packages now that will accept, QuickBooks as a matter of fact, will accept Bitcoin as a form of payment. Sure. You do, it's actually, it's a five-minute setup to accept Bitcoin as a form of payment. And then Angus will definitely be right there on you. Okay, but help me understand this. So if I've got a company, let's say I'm a one-person show, but let's say we've got a company like Andrews who's got 20 people and so on. And he needed a space down 350 Queen Street. 1050. 1050 Queen Street, 1050 Queen Street. So how would he do something like that where any of his 20 or whatever could drop in and use a particular office or space or desk or whatever? Yeah, so probably the best way would be to start a team membership. And that way all of the billing is centralized so you don't need to worry about having a whole bunch of cards hanging around. It's all on one place. And then we could set up each of your members. And that's so that when people are coming in 24-7, we know who's accessing the space. We don't have to. So we would take an office and then they would also get a subscription of their own for some number of time. But that's interesting. I just think it's gotta be hyper affordable. I don't remember what I used to pay when I was on Bishop Street, I had 1132 there. That was, it's the first crazy to run down here. So to be able to have and work in town is super valuable. Parking is inexpensive. And I think the mind share thing. So I have a question. How many of your, like give us the average age of your subscribers in Honolulu? Yeah, we did a lot of surveying actually because we wanted to make sure that the message is not, this is not just for millennials. This is for everyone. This is for business. Would I be the oldest? No. Oh, okay, good. Yeah, we have. So the spread is actually quite evenly distributed. That's awesome. Up through 65 was what we just did it. I'm still older than that. You are? No way. Yeah, I'm a great grandfather. So that would give me a sense for that one. Well, then maybe. I don't know. Thank you for the compliment. But you'll have friends. Yeah, somebody you know. That's awesome though. So it was, yeah, like a third under 35, a third between 35 and 45, and then a third over that. So you're focusing on education and sustainability, but it's open to anybody that wants to come in there. But I'm hoping that the focus will be there. So what are the industries or business types that are in that space? I'm glad that you were talking about Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Hi-Tech Huey is one of our businesses. Chuck and Marie Ly. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Chuck's been on the show. Yeah, Chuck's been on the show. We're members. Also, Smart Yields, they do, they're more on the sustainability and technology side where they're trying to figure out solutions for higher-yield crops. We have Hawaii School of Meditation. We have a couple of playwrights, Huey Aloha. A lot of digital marketing. So a few entrepreneurs, DigiCamp, and Lightspace Digital. Lights on digital. But yeah, it really ranges. Web developers, probably, app developers. Wow, this is cool. Jay should get some ThinkTech help down there. He's always playing with all of our tools. Is it working or not working? It has a technical difficulties. We never got our new themes on it today. We'll get it next week. But wow, so how do you market it? How do you get the word out? Well, we talk to people. That's been a ton of time. How about you, Toxy? Yeah. This is how. A lot of word-of-mouth, because Hawaii is a tight community. You need to get out and talk story with a lot of people. And we do some Facebook ads as well, but we haven't done our really big marketing push until we're done building out the space. We wanna make sure that it's ready to go for people to get their first impression. Yeah, it does sound like you're gonna need to though. You've already, I mean, what's the capacity? What are you shooting for? 1,000 members? It depends based on the type of membership. Yeah, it's the office or the... Exactly. So we have different projections on those numbers, but probably about, well, yeah, it ranges. We have our kind of daily capacity in the space, which is somewhere around 200, so. Wow. That's a good amount of working business people. I mean, they have some great conversations. Well, I've just got an idea about a particular business that I'm working with. So, I could rent a office there for a monthly fee that would allow, if I have three people, they would become members and then we could use that space 24 by seven, 365. We need to talk. Yeah. Okay, this is maybe a better opportunity than what presently is existing with another one of my clients. So there you go. Awesome, I like it. The reason I do this show. Okay, amenities. You talked about coffee and you did talk about, you know, you got video conferencing capabilities, but what if I need to make a photocopy or print things or. Take a shower. Okay, take a, I haven't quite thought about taking showers. We have showers. Wow, I bet you got bike racks, too. We do, yeah, because there's bike racks in house. We're building some surfboard storage. Because that's important. You have to have board meetings. Yeah, you do. All right, all right, all right, all right. And there's surf off cock-a-lock, I think that bad. Yeah, I have board panning. Yeah, so, well, so I get photocopy machines? Mm-hmm. Here's one, here's one. You won't even know what this, you know, fax machines? You know, I can set you up with an app. It's free. It's fax. You can choose. You can take a picture and it'll fax it. A fax machine. I had to ask if you might not know what it is. I know I'm installing a fax machine, couple weeks ago I said, you're doing what? Yeah, we need a line for a fax machine. Who knew how? I said, where do you get fax machines? On eBay or what? Yeah, I didn't know you could get like a hard line. I said, why are you using fax machines anymore? Yes. DTMF phones? No, they live and die by fax. To this day and age, they're living and dying by fax. They're doing one of them. Yeah, they're doing one of them. They're going crazy. Okay, so I've got all this. I've got a printer. So how do you get a key? I can come in and print off a hundred page document. Yeah, you could. Okay, that wouldn't seem kind of fair if I'm stealing all the paper and the ink. So, yeah, so it's donation, it's, well, it's on our system base. Okay. We have a little kitty there. Yeah. We have a black and white and 10 cents for a color copy and, you know, throw in what you use. Then throw in what you use. Okay, that's good. Because, yeah, I can see someone going in there and going like, well, it inked $30 a container or whatever it is. I'll just go down and print on my hundred page portfolio. We're not returning all those user manuals, follow-ups, construction projects. You know, they're like, you know, eight copies this big, right? You've got this all going out and so on. Okay, so what are we missing then? I mean, my electricity's included. I got coffee. I got shower. No cam fees. Is there any food? We have a cafe partner. Okay. If you need, like, bring your lunch. Yeah. So we have a break room. Okay. And we have toaster oven, microwave, fridge, space, anything you would need in that regard. And then we also have a cafe partner coming in Juicy Brew to provide ready-made stocked goods. And it's going to be kind of like an honor market. So you pay by credit card. There's only going to be a few options available. And you just take out what you want. Bitcoin. Wow, wow. Okay, we've got two minutes. That's where we can find information about, where our audience can find information about Impact Hub. Impact Hub. ImpactHubH&L.com. That's not too complicated. Okay, that's awesome. So Impact Hub, you're on Facebook. I picked up stuff on Facebook. You're on Twitter. We are. You're on Instagram. Yeah. You're, where are you not? I mean, I saw you everywhere. You're on Hibachi Talk now. You're on Hibachi Talk. Yeah. And we've got to go down to a visit. We have to come down. I'll give you a call. There should be some great stories coming out of there that you could put on Hibachi Talk too. We're always looking for, you know... And that's the other thing. Please do that. Please let people know there that our guests, as you know, we don't charge for this. So if anyone has something they want to come on this show and talk about, let us know. I'll give you a banner. You can put it up down there if it's okay with you guys. And then we think it's free. It's free 99. Anyway, no one goes unrewarded on this show. You've got number 135 in this series of autographed solo cups that you can display with great pleasure at the... Impact Hub. Impact Hub H&L. Nice. So thank you, Ann Weber. It's very, very nice to meet you. You're just a... You have a wonderful smile, by the way. Oh, thank you. I get accused of flirting with the guests. You know what I mean? Can't stop now. Anyway. I do it anyway. So anyway. So thanks so much. Do you want to say a few words for me too? All right. Dream on, little dreamer. Anyway, like we say at the end of every show, three, two, one. How are you doing?