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Take a Peek at Your Member Benefits & Discounts

Once you walk in the doors at Impact Hub HNL, the tangible benefits of your membership are clear: it’s a creative place to work where you can connect (or not) with great people, jump on super fast wifi and drink complimentary organic coffee and tea.

You can see the full list of great amenities that come with your membership here. And we’ve just added a new, super fun option: our new, free bike borrow program. Check in with our Host to grab a bike to run a quick errand or take a leisurely ride to the park.

We’ve recently partnered with Oahu Fresh, one of Oahu’s longest-running vegetable delivery service (also called a CSA). So, you can order weekly veggies and have them delivered to you at work for easy dinners.

Impact Hub Honolulu is associated with the largest global network of social entrepreneurs. So, as a member of Impact Hub HNL, you also have access to the global network of Impact Hubs with our Global Passport. This gives you up to 3 days of access to Impact Hub locations around the world.

But wait, there’s MORE! We’ve partnered with local businesses for great discounts on local products and services. Some of the newest additions to our list of Member Discounts include:

  • The Creative Co.: A creative agency that offers websites, photography/videography, and more. Members can get a free website audit, and can take 10% off of any service proposal.
  • Pono Home Essentials, a line of zero-waste body care products; members get 5% off with discount code HUBHNL.
  • Still & Moving Center, a yoga and community space just two minutes away from our front door on Queen Street, a gorgeous studio offering yoga, dance, meditation, aerial, and more. Members get 10% off class packs (excluding aerial).

Other Member Discounts available from Consolidated Theatres (the movie theatre across the street), Pono Home, Citywide Home Loans, Lyft, Honolulu Tool Library, American Savings Bank, and more. See all your Member Discounts here.

If you’d like to add your business to our growing Member Discounts list and get your name in front of our hundreds of members and community, contact us and let us know.

One Week Left to Invest in Impact Hub HNL!

By Nam Vu

Over the past two months we’ve been surprised and delighted with the amount of support that our friends, Members, and partners have shown for our Wefunder investment campaign.

Not only did you invest $150,000 into our growth, you supported us via social media, by telling your friends, by coming to our Hawaii Kai location sneak peek event, and so much more. All of your support tells us we’re on the right path towards building a more interconnected Hawaii with our new locations. These new locations will help us expand our network of resources for entrepreneurs, startups, freelancers, and the broader business community, fostering #StartupParadise here in the islands. Thank you for being a part of it.

We have just about a week left on our Wefunder campaign – so this is the crunch time. If you have not yet been able to invest, now is the time to do so. We are grateful for any level of investment you can offer (the minimum is $100). The funds will be used to build out our new Hawaii Kai location and beyond.

If you cannot invest at this time (or if you want to give us some additional help), please help us out by posting on social media to let other people know about the offering. Tap the following message onto your favorite social media platform, be sure to tag us (@ImpactHubHNL), and help us get the word out about our big plans.

Invest in Hawaii’s largest coworking space! @ImpactHubHNL is raising funds on Wefunder, and the goals are💥BIG💥 (11 locations across the islands 🌴 with 1 membership! ✅) Anyone can invest in a more interconnected network of Impact Hubs– learn more:http://bit.ly/impacthubhnl 💰

Thanks so much for your ongoing support of our team and our community!

Interview with Meli James of Mana Up

By George Yarbrough

We are so excited to be a part of the #startupparadise that is Hawaii. We share a vision with many accelerators, businesses, organizations, and individuals to expand business opportunities here in the islands, and beyond.

One such visionary, whom we are proud to call a friend and a partner, is Meli James. She’s the President of the Board of Directors of the Hawaii Venture Capital Association and the Founder of Mana Up, an accelerator for packaged goods and brands in Hawaii. She’s a leader in the business community here in Honolulu, and she had some awesome thoughts to share during a recent conversation at her offices in Honolulu.

Meli understands that connecting Hawaii’s business leaders at locations like Impact Hub HNL is vital to the growth of our startup ecosystem, and is helpful to connect entrepreneurs with each other. Along with alternative workspaces, she’s excited to see the type of investment campaign we’re running. She says these different types of investment – beyond the traditional bank loan or angel investors– can create a lot more opportunity in the islands.

Take a peek at the video below to learn more about her thoughts!

Members on the Move: Impact Hubs Around the World

Did you know that as an Impact Hub HNL member you can work at other Impact Hub locations around the WORLD?

This is an awesome opportunity for all our members to travel and still keep up the hustle. Using the Impact Hub Global Passport program, you can turn your travel into work… or your work into travel!

Each Impact Hub has different rules, yet most offer three days of free coworking to existing members, and many include awesome amenities like coffee, tea, and the opportunity for meetings. Likewise, if you move and become a member at another Impact Hub, you’re welcome to come back to Honolulu to hang out with us.

Anytime you’d like to work at another Hub, it’s good practice to contact the Hosts at the location you’d like to visit before coming to ensure there is space and check in on any information about their space (like hours and other specifics). Some locations offer walk-ins, while others are locked to non-members without appointments.

We LOVE seeing pictures of our members at Impact Hub locations around the world – here are a few that our members and team have shared with us over the past year!

Paul, of Herran Law, visited Japan and dropped into Impact Hub Kyoto!

Nam got to spend time in the UK last year and visit a few of the Impact Hub locations there:

Our Host Mary traveled and worked at Impact Hub Oakland just a few weeks ago!

Andrea, our marketing coordinator, was working during her time in San Francisco!

George got to check out Impact Hub LA a few years ago!

Highlights from our Impact Hub Global Takeover

You may know that Impact Hub HNL is part of a larger network of Impact Hubs around the world- there are currently more than 100 Impact Hubs in diverse locations like Mexico, Germany, Rwanda and Japan.

To highlight the collective impact of these coworking spaces, the Global team allowed us to ‘takeover’ their social media accounts. This gave us an opportunity to share what we think is most important to us here in Honolulu – our great members that are doing awesome things in our community.

Read more in this feature blog about how we envision Impact Hub HNL as part of the global Impact Hub community.

We were so excited to highlight the members and organizations that make up our community – both the individuals and the companies that are making impact across the islands. Click the images below (or here) to learn more about the changemakers that call Impact Hub HNL home.

The Global team also wanted to meet the team behind Impact Hub HNL, so we shared some pics of our team doing awesome stuff: George & Anne adventuring in New Zealand, Nam grabbing keys for our new Hawaii Kai location, Meeta sitting on her throne, Andrea cuddling goats on Maui, Josh with his pup, and Prerna enjoying Hawaii adventures. Learn more about our team here.

It was important to us to highlight the physical space, too! We love our rad location in Kakaako and the local amenities we can take advantage of, but also well as the interesting and functional spaces we offer within our Kaka’ako location.

 

Why Should I Pay for Coworking?

By Nam Vu

Believe me, I know the value of a dollar. My wife and I have been working independently for 20 years. We know what building a business in your garage is like and we know what it is like to operate on a shoestring budget.

So why would we help start a coworking space, and why do we think it is a good idea for people to pay to cowork? Why would anyone pay to cowork? The bottom line? It is in your best interest.

If you think I’m full of it and just trying to sell you something, then feel free to stop reading. BUT, if you follow me on this short journey, I think you will be surprised in the end.

I don’t need coworking – I can work from home and coffee shops

Sure, I’ve been there, done that.  Working at home is great… for the most part. And for the occasional meetings, a coffee shop does just fine.  Or does it?  Maybe five years ago, it was still OK.  But lately, trying to get a table at a coffee shop is just plain frustrating.  And then there’s the Wi-Fi which often does not work, or hobbles along when it does work.  And the fighting for power outlets….UGH!  More often, I have to reschedule meetings because of issues at the coffee shop  – think of the loss in productivity and the opportunity costs.

Working from home is great and we’ve done well for a long time.  The biggest challenge with working from home, especially if you are an independent worker, is stagnation.  There’s no one to share ideas with, no surprise conversations to spark new ideas, and no one to challenge those really bad ideas that you thought would be your lottery ticket.  The lack of collaboration and idea flow can eventually put you into a rut that could cost you a lot in the long run from missed opportunities.

The best way to grow a business is not cutting costs, but increasing revenues.  Keep your eye on the opportunities!

The Real Reasons to Cowork: It’s all about the community and the opportunities

Sure, there are a host of amenities and benefits to coworking at Impact Hub Honolulu:

  • Free organic coffee and tea
  • Fastest publicly available Internet in the state of Hawaii
  • Different seating for different workers (bean bags, couch, cafe table, etc.)
  • Showers (yes, we have showers)
  • More events than you have time to attend
  • Member pau hanas with free beer
  • and so much more! See our full list of amenities here.

When you come and check it out, you will find that we’ve spent hours and hours working on creating a space that is cool, inspiring, and uplifting.

But here’s a secret:  that’s not what we are building.  What we are building is not what you can see when you walk around the space.  Not the cooling blue concrete floor, not the beautiful murals on the walls and ceilings, and not the things that we provide. Although a lot of time and effort and resources have been used on these things, in the end, these are just part of the facilities.

What we are building is a community… an ecosystem and a place where serendipitous collaboration creates opportunities.  And it is not only about business and money.  It’s about ideas, wellness, and balance.  It’s about collaboration to make this world a better place, and sometimes starting first with ourselves.

As someone recently said to me, “I want to do well, by doing good.”  That stuck in my mind and now I use it all the time, and it’s become a focus for our company: Doing well, by doing good.

But, anyways, why would anyone pay for coworking?

It depends on what you are looking for.

For people who are new to coworking its about the facilities: Wi-Fi, desks, chairs, printer, meeting rooms, tea, coffee, toilets, etc.

Once you have coworked for a while, its about the community and the atmosphere and what it can do for you: an inspiring environment, events, introductions, collaboration, sense of belonging, friends, partnerships

Once you become a part of the coworking community, its about the community itself and what you can contribute: platform for events, sharing your expertise, mentoring, collaboration, sense of fulfillment

There is so much that still needs to be done, but I am so excited to be a part of this community.

Drop by and say hi and check out the space: you can schedule a tour here.