Workation & work on the go: Entrepreneur shared apartment SiliconWelly, Wellington, New Zealand {Reader's travel tip}

It is not for nothing that the name SiliconWelly is ironically reminiscent of its famous role model and says it all: More than 30 people have come together here to jointly develop innovative ideas to develop.

30 company on 120 square meters

SiliconWelly has grown to around 120 square meters on 30 square meters Companys united: programmers, web designers or video makers, but also rather unusual coworkers such as computer scrap artists, tattoo artists or sandcastle builders realize their ideas together and share the rent.

This is not a classic co-working space where everyone can rent as they wish, but rather an entrepreneurial shared flat where many people realize creative projects together. eventCharacter inklusive

SiliconWelly finances itself exclusively through long-term business partnerships. They do without venture capital because they want to be free in their entrepreneurial thinking. "Some have it Money, we have the ideas of what to do with it,” says co-founder Tim Norton. Increasingly they come customers also from abroad.

Party and job in one

In fact, that seems to be the case Office a bit chaotic: the mattress from the last night shift is still under Tim's desk, and there's a toothbrush in the bathroom. Between Job Separating privacy and private life is difficult for him. The boys wear flip-flops and t-shirts instead of patent-leather shoes and collared shirts. Tim himself walks around barefoot.

In the working flat opposite the cinema are self-made works of computer scrap around, in front of the door is a shoveling sand giant fern at the Oriental Bay, which even made it into the main news of the country.

Have fun as a participation criterion

Not everyone who works here has one Vocational Training or a Study completed. Some came directly from school or got stuck after an internship. If you want to take part, you only have to bring one thing with you: joy in life and in your work!

Similar to a party buffet, everyone brings something. This includes, for example, playing drums in the hallway or hanging out on the rented party boat in Wellington Bay after work. Do it all Sinn for creativity and Courageto do something new, Tim talks enthusiastically about his chaos in the office.

Customers benefit from the lifestyle

Your customers benefit from this fresh wind, the “Life-Style” they as feeling merchandise. In fact, Tim spends most of the time away from the office with his partners to get inspiration for marketing projects.

He is a “funny cat”, as the early thirties call himself, a happy nature lover. Admire the two volcanoes at the Tongario Crossing, hit the sea through the bushes in Abel Tasman Park. It is not uncommon for a brilliant business idea to come up, which he and his friends then implement.

Around the corner think about new ideas

For example, sweating together gave rise to the idea of ​​producing a DVD entitled “The Naked Trainer”. The background was thinking around the corner.

Why isn't there a fitness trainer who takes up the frustration when it doesn't quite work with ascetic weight loss? In the end, it became a caricature of the "fitness craze." In New Zealand, the production is a laughing stock, which is well known merchandise leaves.

And they can make money with it to earn. Share your joy with everyone Welt and Onlinevideos, waving at the camera after the work is done. The message However, their marketing always remains the same: “Made from New Zealand”. They have Fun in what they do and want to infect some tight-lipped Europeans with it.

Online election campaign for Obama

It could even become a real export hit, Tim dreams. In the USA, a friend of his is already an entrepreneur for SiliconWelly. You even managed the online campaign for Obama in 2008. The server was over 10.000 nautical miles away in Wellington Bay.

Spread across the two islands, the young entrepreneurs have even more ideas Head. More than they can realize, they push each other up in their desire to create. Contrary to expectations, the cash flow seems to be right. Despite the Crisis abroad, some competition at home and the last electricity bill for all the computers. “Our value chain ethics and profitability work,” says Tim.

The secret of success?

What is the success story of the entrepreneur's WG from the other end of the world? Tim believes in social enterprises and wants to make the world a bit better with his colleagues. He had deleted unemployment from his vocabulary.

He replaced this umbrella-Term with names of new companies: PlanHQ, ProjectX Technology, Resonant Concepts, MarchingCubes.com, Snipesoft, Rocket Boys, Prestigious Memorabilia or Silverstripes.

Entrepreneurship = Live your dreams

For the guys from SiliconWelly it is the most important decision of her life not to give up at the first waves. For them, “entrepreneurship” has little to do with diligently studying guidebooks, applying for public funding, begging for bank loans, or visiting more expensive ones Coaching-Seminars.

"It's about seeing your job as a real calling," says Norton. “Follow your dreams and make it happen”. What sounds like the naive philosophy of life of a dropout seems to be his mission statement Business- plan to be.

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