A photographer's 1,500-square-foot studio became a 22,000-square-foot NuLu clubhouse for people who work alone. The revealing part is not the expansion - it is the location that failed, the focus that followed, and the business hidden inside a very good cup of coffee.
Lotfi Zadeh Technology Center sells desks, private offices and meeting rooms. Its more interesting proposition is putting the people building Azerbaijan’s technology businesses within talking distance.
Across the Carolinas, Flywheel pairs desks and private offices with a network of mentors, business services and local partners. Its wager: entrepreneurs should be able to build a company without leaving their community.
From a 700-square-foot experiment to a two-building founder campus, The LAB Miami has spent years making introductions tangible. Its latest bet: put the right people together, then give them a reason to come back.
Mark Dixon turned a plain observation - real business happening at cafe tables - into Regus, the flexible-office network that now spans thousands of locations and quietly outlasted the startup that was supposed to bury it.