Attila Lenart
What was DeskSpace?
Have you ever tried to arrange offices for your remote workforce? We all found out that working from home can become unproductive really fast, and as a leader and manager, you want to keep your workforce performing. But how do you provide offices when you have 47 employees in 47 different countries?
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That is what DeskSpace solved. We coordinated between what kinds of coworking spaces your employees prefered, your price points, the city of each employee, the quality of the coworking space and the paperwork needed to get your employee in there.
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Take a look at our pitchdeck to the right!
Here's our pitchdeck that got us into multiple accelerator programs.
Why start DeskSpace?
We started DeskSpace in the middle of my master's education, and we started it because we found a great starting team and a promising niche. The co-working niche has been steadily growing for the last 15 years, which is why we thought we could bring some innovation.
Having been a part of the AAU startup programme, UCN startup programme, Beyond Beta startup programme, and having met with many successful entrepreneurs, investors, and mentors, we were able to see that others also saw value in what we provided. So we kept going.
Why end DeskSpace?
A normal phenomenon in entrepreneurship is that what you sell changes multiple times before you find what your customers actually need. This is very hard to find, and its one of the reason why 80% of startups fail within 5 years.
As we changed our product to the one you can see in the pitch-deck above, my co-founders had their internship coming up for their studies. It was planned that they would have their internship in their startup, however there is little software to be made in the first months of our product which forced our hands and led to having to look for alternative companies to do internships in.
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Therefore the executive decision was made to say goodbye to our venture that we have worked on for over one year, but we are still friends to this day and we kept the endless lessons from encountering impossible to solve problems.
Some of our memories...
