- A business decides that hiring some entrepreneurial types would be a smart move – young people with bright ideas.
- Entrepreneurial types often can’t work on their own ideas if they have full-time employment as well.
- Some entrepreneurs choose co-working spaces for networking, energy and affordability
The idea is for a co-working space to be combined with part-time employment. You work for a tech company in the mornings, and do your own thing in the afternoon, from the same desk (just swap laptops and put a sign above you). You get enough pay to survive and enough time to work on your idea. You get to network with like-minded people.
It would work best for a large company, with job-sharing. The whole first floor could be morning employees, and the second floor could be afternoon employees.
The secret sauce: the company includes mentor-ship, and will invest in ideas it likes, so it is also an incubator.
Keep in mind that this type of thinking worked well at Google with their “20% time”, giving us Google News, Gmail and AdSense.
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