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8 Ways to Hack Your Office Lease for Cash
- randomwalker 18y agoI love all these articles. A downturn forces us to become way more efficient. By the time the next boom starts, the improvements have become best practices and carry over. There are so many things we take for granted now that were once breakthough cost-cutting measures. A good example is the move to commodity hardware, which was the result of the previous bust. I love what happened to Sun during that period: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_microsystems#The_.22Bubble.22_and_its_aftermath http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_microsystems#The_.22Bubble....
- dmv 18y agothe improvements have become best practices and carry over. They also become canaries, for when you hear "well, that's what we used to do but now it is different". There are best practices for buying a house, and then there were the "new way of things" during the bubble -- bidding wars, listings with offer expiration dates, etc. Three years ago, a real estate agent may have told you that you may have to be willing to pay more to get into the market or be priced out for good. That makes very little economic sense on an asset level, but it was the "new way of things". How is that working out now?
- skmurphy 18y ago9. Skip getting an office and just rent conference rooms 10. Hire a good office broker who has been in business for more than a decade, they will know more and save you more than this article. We did a series of interviews on a startup's first office that cover some additional advice. http://www.skmurphy.com/blog/category/first-office/ http://www.skmurphy.com/blog/category/first-office/
- litewulf 18y agoHm. Why'd they misspell advice as "hack"? That's just bizarre!