I don’t spend a great deal of time reflecting on the past.  I try hard to live in the present.  However, with a birthday upon us at Link and growth in process it’s made me look back.

I remember well the day a couple of older gentlemen from SCORE told me to stop analyzing the business and just f***ing do it.  I took their advice and never looked back.  I did do a great deal of analysis, I visited over 20 Coworking spaces, looked for the right location for a year and famously re-wrote my business plan about 15 times but now I’m thankful for that time.

The most important thing about a Coworking space isn’t the design. It isn’t the location. It isn’t the management. While all these things are important, what is really important are the people that you let inside the space.

I’ve always been fascinated by old sayings and proverbs, especially the everyday ones that strike you as odd once you actually think about them. “It takes a village to raise a child” or “Rub a dub dub, three men in a tub” are my favorite examples. In my 5-½ months at Link, I’ve managed to puzzle out my own interpretation of the former quote, with a slight twist: “It takes a coworking space to raise an intern.” Read More...

As a member of modern society, I think one of the biggest problems that we have is our inherent and primary focus on extracting some personal benefit and gain from any situation. Society has bestowed upon us the mentality that we must do anything to get ahead, no matter how acceptably rude, and that the survival of the fittest doctrine rules sovereign. We meet new people and establish relationships not for the pure joy of being their friends, but to increase the number of contacts that could benefit our success in the future.