For a while now, I’ve been going on about doing something Bedouin and we’ve been moving our pawns about the board in an attempt to get something started. This week I’ve truly been Bedouin and it’s time I started talking a bit more about it.
Last week, we named it “The NewWorkSpace”.
Centre of Belfast location, a caf??? at first glance but with free WiFi and larger than average tables. Good coffee (and I’m just back from Paris and I’m disgusted with the state of espresso in Belfast) and tasty snacks alongside options ranging from working at a coffee shop table to going upstairs to open plan hot-desking to going further and occupying a temporary office with frosted glass walls.
So, yes, we’re doing it. We have some big plans for it, we’ve been working night and day on market research and getting a business plan hammered out. We’ve been asking people in InvestNI, coffee shop entrepreneurs, mobile professionals and everyone thinks it’s a great idea.
I hope to some day see James in the Caf??? or WorkSpace as he’s been going on about it more than most!
The first one will be opened in Belfast. After that? Dublin? Cork? Glasgow? Anywhere where we can see innovation, enterpreneurship and a need for flexible affordable workspace with great opportunities for business networking.
Hey James, want to be a guest for the opening? What about you Damian? I’ll see if I can grab Greg Olsen too 🙂
Wow!
Sounds like a fantastic idea. Would love to see one in Cork 🙂 Office space here is kind of expensive for a small startup.
Walter
If you can make one of these places put a drawing table in them then I’ll happily go Bedouin.
– pj
Cork is definitely on our schedule as it seems to be the nexus for startups on the Island.
As for a drawing table. Noted. Send me a URL for a suitable one 🙂