Alaska Office Space (Fairbanks, Nome, North Pole: hotel, buy, university)

[flyonpa]

Again I think you will have issues with [IT] Staff there,
and a descent Internet Connection,

The more you are out of "Town" the worse it gets.

You could probably go Fairbanks, they would have a good Internet Speeds, and Staffing issues would not be bad.

[ChinaWishChild]

Originally Posted by flyonpa

Again I think you will have issues with [IT] Staff there,
and a descent Internet Connection,

The more you are out of "Town" the worse it gets.

You could probably go Fairbanks, they would have a good Internet Speeds, and Staffing issues would not be bad.

I love the area of Tok, Alaska. South of Fairbanks. Maybe good for PC Silicon Valley Headquarters. Would someone be able to hold Bob's hand during the dead of winter time months at the office? Fairbanks, Alaska is the coldest place of Alaska. With temperatures down below zero. Summers are very good in the Tundra.
My goal is to launch the interactive Online Internet Cafe and have the cash flow come inside. Then make the move to Alaska office set up complex at some location. The India office is doing the whole marketing. and most of the company people will be in India. Casperon.com

[flyonpa]

Cyber Cafe have never really worked in the US, Why would anyone come to it?
Everyone has Some sort of data plan on there phones and/or tablets.

Free WiFi / Internet is the norm in most coffee cafe's where the coffee/food are the money makers, the Internet/Free is just a service/draw , most limit "free" to a hour or so, so people don't sit there all day hogging there seat space.

Most hotels have some sort of Limited internet access for guests who are on SAT internet connection, and High speed access if they within reach of a fiber internet backbone of Cable TV lines, or DSL, (Copper with in the reach of fiber connected telco CO)

What transitory population are you planning to serve?

[RayinAK]

Originally Posted by ChinaWishChild

I love the area of Tok, Alaska. South of Fairbanks. Maybe good for PC Silicon Valley Headquarters. Would someone be able to hold Bob's hand during the dead of winter time months at the office? Fairbanks, Alaska is the coldest place of Alaska. With temperatures down below zero. Summers are very good in the Tundra.
My goal is to launch the interactive Online Internet Cafe and have the cash flow come inside. Then make the move to Alaska office set up complex at some location. The India office is doing the whole marketing. and most of the company people will be in India. Casperon.com

The problem is that during the long winters there would not be customers in Tok to support your business. Around Fairbanks hotels, Barns & Noble, and the public libraries offer "guests" Wi-Fi. There are a few other places that offer free Wi-Fi. Cafes have never been popular around Fairbanks, since most people buy coffee at the numerous drive-thru coffee stands, or the Starbucks shops at the local supermarkets. In Fairbanks it would have to be an out of the ordinary cafe to have any customer.

Something like this, maybe: have a sort of cafe that is very well decorated, warm during the winter, and cool during the hot summer, where the customers are sitting very close to the floor. The attendants would have to be very tall and beautiful, wearing revealing T-shirts, and... and... super short miniskirts

I am kidding with you, of course, because having that type of clientele would require some very proficient bouncers, and also because such things have been tried and never worked. We even have one or two drive-thru coffee stands where the baristas wear some revealing outfits, but these places aren't any more popular than other coffee stands where one wants to buy a better quality coffee and pay a lot less for it.

[RayinAK]

Originally Posted by Music_Man

Anchorage is the hub for all Fiber optic in the state.

Juneau, Anchorage, and Fairbanks have been linked for several years now. UAF has been using fiber optics for a long time.

But this one has been delayed?
http://www.adn.com/article/20141220/...alaska-delayed

[ChinaWishChild]

PC Silicon Valley is a open market on the Internet. Launch end of this summer. Company structure United States Market place ONLINE services. Development from casperon.com

I am picking up a legal team and cpa team in Nevada. Corporate Analyst / New Business
Corporate Service Center, Inc. IncForFree.com

Come Jan, December time I would have establish a company office United States. This computer company can give growth to a town in Alaska. Think Tok, Alaska be the place? Online services sales will be well over $2.5 million. A baby AOL.

[riceme]

My reading comprehension skills are not too bad and I have read this thread about a half dozen times and still am not completely sure what it is you're trying to sell. If it's internet service Tok doesn't sound too promising, but if you come to Fox, I just asked everyone and it sounds like a solid 25% of us would sign up for internet service. That's like, five or six whole people. If it's an internet cafe type deal you can forget it unless you set it up in one of the established year-round bars, but good luck getting the owners to sign-off. Fox is maxed-out on bars per capita, and let's face it, we're not going to hang out someplace they don't serve booze. I'm on a hotspot and I swear to god it's like being on dial-up.

[riceme]

Originally Posted by RayinAK

Juneau, Anchorage, and Fairbanks have been linked for several years now. UAF has been using fiber optics for a long time.

But this one has been delayed?
Fiber-optic Internet service for northern and western Alaska delayed | Alaska Dispatch News

If you zoom-in on that map, you can see that the FO terminates at the weigh station. Bastards!

I'm just kidding. I'd imagine it probably terminates in town. My closest neighbors get service, but I don't... they got "grandfathered in." I can't get any provider to even come out to my cabin... primarily because they can't find it even when I provide detailed directions that a 7-year old could follow, which I'm actually pretty okay with.

[riceme]

Hey Ray, didn't they run the bikini barista place out of NP? Or am I thinking of someplace else? I know there's one in Fairbanks and Dakota James works there.

[RayinAK]

Originally Posted by riceme

Hey Ray, didn't they run the bikini barista place out of NP? Or am I thinking of someplace else? I know there's one in Fairbanks and Dakota James works there.

I don't remember having any in North Pole, but there was one somewhere around South Cushman in Fairbanks. I never went there since I am old enough to know that I prefer the taste of a good coffee that is reasonably priced than looking at some half-nude barista. Now, it would have been different year ago, I imagine

When the place was opened in Fairbanks, one of the baristas I had bought coffee from for a couple of years asked me, "are am going to lose you as a customer to the bikini barista down the road?" I said, "what naked barista are you talking about?" She told me about it, but I never went to it, because once you find a barista who makes a coffee to your liking, that's the one you stick too. Yesterday I went to the one across the Fred Meyer store at University to buy a mango yogurt smoothy, and a new barista there grabbed the straw at the top (the spot where my wife would put her mouth on). I was surprised that she didn't have any sense to know not to put her fingers on that part of the straw. I asked for another straw, and she had no idea why