Bay Area Coworking Spaces: The Xconomy Guide. Wade Roush2/10/11 Building a company is hard enough—there’s no need to do it in lonely isolation.
That’s the realization hitting a growing number of tech entrepreneurs seeking desks at the coworking spaces scattered around San Francisco Bay. The appeal of these spaces goes well beyond the free coffee and the Internet access: proximity to other creative people is almost guaranteed to generate serendipitous collaborations, sales leads, or even employment offers. “If you are launching a startup or have one that is just one or two people, you should really try to get into a coworking space,” New York venture capitalist Fred Wilson wrote in a blog post surveying the coworking phenomenon last fall. Mutinerie : Libres ensemble.