Fred Ngo from Montreal is in the process of starting out on a bold new adventure called standout jobs. We here at TheCodeFactory wish Fred and all the folks at Standout jobs great success. I also believe that there is the opportunity for start-ups to learn from their experience.
Fred’s’ recent post “The Wild and Wacky Start-up World” provides some excellent insights and lessons for would be entrepreneurs and start-ups. Too summarize Fred’s’ post there is a whole lot of work in getting an office set up. Don’t just take my word for it have a read of Fred’s post and learn.

“The bootup sequence of a new office is incredibly long, even when it’s only a temporary space. We had to put in an order for an internet connection, …

Without an internet connection, the office is basically useless, but since we’re receiving deliveries of furnitures and equipment, we’ve pretty much had to station someone at the office during all the daytime working hours. …

This week we’ve also brought on a sysadmin,”

The somewhat painful lesson is that setting up an office for a start-up is a whole lot of time, effort and frustration. The second part of the lesson is that time spent setting up your office is time that you were not working on your business. Therefore setting up an office is a loss of productivity for a start-up. Not only that, it continues to be a drain on resources over the life of the business.

Well, this is where we at TheCodeFactory can help. Our value add is that we take that painful getting the office up and running step and help smooth the transition from a desperate team working from home and in different locations to a functional team working from a single location. We also provide support for your business for the duration of your stay with us.
Our goal is to make our tenants more productive and successful.

Cheers,

ian.thecodefactory @ gamil.com

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