Cape Canaveral Office Space

Anybody that's ever built a successful startup [especially an interenet startup] will tell you that focus is imperative. You must focus on your business model, keep the eye on your long term goals, balance your ever-growing list of to do items, create a foundation that will scale [infrastructure and technology wise], and a million other areas require passionate and persistent focus as well.

As part of my need for focusing my new startup, I just signed a lease on an office in Cape Canaveral. The location is pretty nice. I'm a couple blocks from the beach, 7 blocks from 7 eleven, 1 block from the nicest tennis courts in Cape Canaveral and only 7 minutes from home. To boot, the office has a nice view of the tennis courts off the second story balcony and some decent natural lighting. All in all, I got a nice office for a great price.

Time to tie the focus part to the office space part of my lil technology startup.
Well, in order to focus you must remove yourself from as much distractions as possible. Although some technology entrepreneur's can work out of their homes [especially the ones without kids], I'm not one of them. I require a fairly particular type of work space and my home is not conducive to focus when it comes to business. Sure I can focus on my beautiful girls all day long but during the day my business requires the vast majority of my focus. So I decided that the rent I pay each month on the new office space will more than pay for itself over the long run and my wife and I will be much happier in the meantime as well.

One of the most frustrating things about getting office space is the amount of time it required just finding it. I must admit than Shannon did all the legwork, but even meeting the realtor, signing the lease, getting their check ready, dealing with incompetence on the real estate agent's part [yada yada yada], took my focus off of what I would consider to be more important items of the business... Like generating revenue. But alas, there's the rub.

There are areas of business that aren't fun at all but are all part of the journey. While finding office space is not on my top ten list of things I love doing, I must admit that I'm excited about turning the space into my own and being able to focus on my dream. I've had to do much crappier little jobs with my former startups [like bookkeeping] so this was really not all that bad.

Oh yeah, did I mention there are shuffleboard courts right across the street too. Yeah, I'm sure just the sight of the elderly playing shuffleboard will be motivation enough for me to stay focused.