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Jobs - Tuesday, May 22, 2007

TrendWatch: Coworking

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Jelly is a NYC coworking group that convenes in a Garment District apartment.

We keep hearing from people about the opportunity cost of working for the man. There is so much more upside to owning 100% of your business than getting 0.5% of a Pre-IPO startup, you're an idiot to take job, goes the logic.

The NY Post profiles the a trendlet, coworking offices. Coworking is for people who run their own small, usually online businesses, but want to spend time, and share office expenses with other people at like companies.
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So why do we write about this? It seams to us that there is a business to be built here. Money to be made. But so far we have not seen any startups being formed to cater to the co-working community.

Read - ARISING NUMBER OF "COWORKING" SPACES BRING FREELANCERS AND OTHER SOLO WORKERS TOGETHER
(NY Post)
View - Coworking New York City wiki

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