I vaguely remember an evening 2007 in a bar on the plateau where Michael Boyle and I met with Patrick Tanguay and Daniel Mireault. We looked at floor plans and discussed synergy and had what I remember as potentially too many beers. A few months later the floor plans were now a reality, StationC was open and ready for business, and I was using the nicest office I had ever worked in (of course I usually had my office in labs before and spent some time in cubicle hell when I was at Nortel during my undergrad). In early 2008 Nexalogy quickly outgrew our single desk as our revenues took off and we were probably the first startup to move in and out of StationC.
By March we were already 3 people and had moved across the hall from StationC. We used the meetings rooms extensively to handle more client and investor meetings and the desk when we needed quiet time. In September 2008 we hired what we like to call our zeroeth employee, the intrepid Guido Vieira and already needed more space. Guido got our desk at StationC. Along with meeting other startups and networking at StationC this co-working space was proving itself in the Montreal startup ecology.
Not only did StationC help us with our spacial growth, StationC’s rich community of freelancer’s were key in helping us source much needed talent, Dan Mireault did our logo, Patrick Tanguay designed our site, Duncan Moore did our branding and Adriana Palanka served as Nexalogy’s official voice. So now we are at 7 employees and in the process of hiring our next 3 still in the same building, just two floors down. As we moved down to a larger space we gave our old offices next to StationC to WhereCloud. Which have since also moved out of that space and taken larger offices in the building. In fact in the last few years, several startups grew out of the fertile ground which is StationC : Nimonik, Metakine, StatusNet. The organic flexibility that is co-working is perfect for the quickly changing dynamic which is the reality of startups and startup communities. Thanks StationC.
