AEDCPSGE 2010

Hive 4A

• Nicolle Bruderer • Zachary Cahn• Seth Feldman• PJ Formica• Sakshi Khurana• Ali Petsuck

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Our Team Members

• What is a hackerspace?

• Why a hackerspace?

• What makes Hive 4A better than the rest?

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Introduction

AEDC & The Lehigh Valley

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Deliverable 1

Market Feasibility

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Deliverable 2

Best Practices Analysis

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Deliverable 3

Marketing Plan

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Iron Tribe

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Location: White Plains, NY

Status: Active

Population: 53,077

City Unemployment May

2010: 8.4

National Unemployment May

2010: 9.7

Percent of college degrees: 19.8

MakersLocal 256

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Location: Huntsville, Alabama

Status: Failing

Population: 161,254

City Unemployment May 2008:

3.1

National Unemployment May

2008: 7.2

Percent of college degrees: 23.1

NYC Resistor

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Location: Brooklyn, New York

Status: Active

Population: 8,274,527

City Unemployment in 2007: 9.6%

National Unemployment in 2007: 10.2%

Percent of college degrees: 25.6 %

Unemployment Demographics

GENERAL% Unemployed at Time

of Founding

% National Unemployment at Time

of Founding

Average: 7.8 8.8

Cities > 500,000 8.67 8.60

Cities < 500,000 7.46 8.84

Allentown 9.7 9.5

Lehigh Valley* 9.7 9.5

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Per Capita IncomeIntroductio

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Average: Cities > 500,000 Cities < 500,000 Allentown Lehigh Valley* $-

$5,000

$10,000

$15,000

$20,000

$25,000

$30,000

$35,000

$40,000

Age Distribution

GENERAL Under 18 18-24 25-44 44-64 Over 65

Average: 21.04 15.66 30.56 19.84 11.88

Cities > 500,000 20.61 14.80 32.13 20.72 11.58

Cities < 500,000 21.24 15.81 30.06 19.71 11.93

Allentown 24.8 11.2 29.8 19.1 15.1

Lehigh Valley* 13.0 19.0 29.0 22.0 17.0

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Educational Attainment

GENERAL% College Degree

or Higher% High School

Degree Only % No Degree

Average: 29.28 57.56 18.46

Cities > 500,000 26.56 56.66 21.36

Cities < 500,000 29.79 58.08 17.55

Allentown 15.4 57.3 27.3

Lehigh Valley 25.2 52.6 22.2

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New Used

Machine Tools $10,340 $7,600

Classroom $28,374 $23,147

Computer Lab $12,528 $5,468

Electronics $12,423 $7,948

Workshop $33,343 $21,714

Totals $96,903 $65,877

NYC Resistor

“We don’t have customers. We have members.

40 of them….Our members share their toys.”

-NYC Resistor Hackerspace

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Interlock

“The basic vibe throughout was of people wanting a multidisciplinary community in which they could learn from each other and collaborate on projects.” 

-Interlock Hackerspace

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CINCI 2600

“Getting people involved in the process is essential. Even before your space has a physical location or even a name, you need to get a group started and meeting on a regular basis…” 

-CINCI 2600 Hackerspace

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23b Shop

"Keep your overhead to zero whenever possible… Huge overheads and overinflated expectations about membership and income drive a lot of such groups right off the map."

-23b Shop

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Confusion Research Center

“Be cynical and dedicated. Don’t say be afraid to say ‘No’ and

don’t expect it to happen over night. It can and will take years to get it going at anywhere its

full capacity.”

-Confusion Research Center

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Membership

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Machinery

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Goals

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Failure

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Computing/

Lounge

Machining

Classroom

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MembershipIntroductio

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PartnershipsEndowment >$10 Million• Cedar Crest College• DeSales University• Lafayette College• Lehigh University• Moravian College• Muhlenberg College• Northampton

Community College• Penn State - Lehigh

Valley

Endowment <$10 Million• Allentown Business

School• Luzerne County

Community College• Pennsylvania School of

Business• ITT Technical Institute

of Technology• CDM Institute• Lincoln Tech• Lehigh Carbon

Community College

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Thank You

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