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The first startup where I worked, it was just me and the founder, and we were always working from a Starbucks with two laptops as a way to save money on the office and also to allow for change of scenery (this was Manhattan, and there were something like 60 Starbucks here at the time) It worked great for 3 months. After Thanksgiving all the stores started to play the same Christmas Tunes CD on repeat - nothing kills…
A word of warning from a Seattle guy who does this all the time: if you start going to coffeehouses to work, please take the environment of the place into account. Nothing is more grating than when a previously social, comfortable place is turned into a caffeinated study hall by geeks with laptops. Likewise, it's awful when a quiet, subdued place is over-run with noisy group meetings. Usually, the owner of an establi…
Interesting; I was just in Seattle a few weeks ago, and noticed the different kinds of coffee shops. Some were clearly designed for buying a coffee and working (Online Coffee), whereas others were designed for drinking coffee. In the part of Chicago where I live, everything is a chain coffee shop, so none of them are really conducive for getting work done. They all cater to the "I need my coffee before my 8am meeting…
(That's what happens when the weather is so depressing that you need a caffeine hit to justify getting out of bed in the morning. :-P)
(Irony sensor would be off the chart about now.)
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Business opportunity?
Possibly but you should really try to concentrate on business opportunities that are a close match to your skill-set and temperament which I guess the coffee industry isn't for most of the visitors here.