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I feel like it's a good idea to have a separate office from where you live, but why don't more (2-3 person) startups use the library for an office? It's quiet,
by gduffy 18y ago
I feel like it's a good idea to have a separate office from where you live, but why don't more (2-3 person) startups use the library for an office? It's quiet, you can rent conference rooms and equipment by the hour, and there's free wifi.
It wouldn't work forever, but it would be fine for the first few months.
- mechanical_fish 18y agoIt's quiet. Too quiet. You can't hold whiteboard meetings and wave your arms a lot in a library, or they ask you to leave. The conference rooms do exist, sometimes, but it's probably hard to consistently get one several times a week. When you find you really need a conference, the rooms may all be full.
- bookhuddle 18y agoLibraries generally close around 8pm. Software startup founders are probably just getting started at that time. :)
- dangoldin 18y agoUnless you go to a campus library. Then you also get access to lots of fun research journals
- brianlash 18y agoSeconded. If there's one thing I miss about college it's the 24-hour facilities. Even though there was always "home" it felt more entrepreneurial to work in a dedicated workspace, if a public one.
- ardit33 18y agoThen hit the starbucks. There is a 24hrs one open close to my place (laurel heights, sf), and now there is even free wifi, and they remodeled it. Get a double shot machiatto, (1.99), and just hack. There is food, water, bathrooms right there. After the remodeling, for some reason, I find myself being incredibly productive there.
- angstrom 18y agoSounds like 2DBoy: http://www.2dboy.com/about.php http://www.2dboy.com/about.php