Co-Working: Please Build This Space...

Yeah, your kids should be quite and respectful... but in the real world sometimes that isn't going to happen because, well, they're kids. It just takes one time to make you feel a little uneasy about being on the phone during an important conference call.

I have three of them and luckily I don't need to be on the phone much, but my ultimate plan is to build a detached home office. Not a solution for everyone, but if you have the land and skills you can do it yourself with very little cost when you factor the value it adds to your home.

This article also points out a couple other bonuses, mainly that it gives you a physical divide between home and work, which I think is a hard problem for anyone that works at home.

http://shedblog.historicshed.com/2008/12/perfect-home-office...

I can tell you that what makes coworking magical is it's ability to connect people and create friendships that would otherwise not happen.

Coworking's weakness is the landlord business model is extremely low margin. In the suggested model in the article, $400 per member X 20 members = $8,000 per month. Now consider the rent of a warehouse downtown, utilities, paying someone to run the place, and buildout. It's a quick way to go out of business.

Now, if the coworking space is run as a loss leader for another business, that's another story.

At Conjunctured our other business is happy hours at Rio Rita's. We haven't found out how to make that profitable yet, but we're gonna' keep trying by god! :p

-Conjunctured Co-Founder