Coworking Blog
all about that entrepreneur life
Meet Tina Rongers: Catalyst, Yoga Instructor and Prince Fan
(The Musician, Not the Royalty)
You arrive at the office, wave a hello to the friendly faces, plug in, and get to work. We get it – we're entrepreneurs / freelancers / remote workers with more work than time. But what ARE they working on over there? Once a month, we'll highlight one of our members...
Internet Outage in Valparaiso?
Is your internet out while you still need to get work done? Zoseco Coworking in Valparaiso uses an independent fiber network with battery backup so you can keep going when Comcast or Frontier don't. Purchase a $20 day pass at the button here and let us know when...
Sweating the small stuff
Details matter. Since starting the space in summer 2014, we've learned quite a bit about what works and what doesn't. One thing that we enjoy most though, is paying attention on details that individually might not make a huge difference, but together make a things so...
Doing a Weekly Standup
Update from June 2017: So we tried doing these, and it didn't really work. So we stopped doing them. But please enjoy the below story from when we started. 🙂 Imagine this, you're way deep in concentration, working on a project and BAM, someone asks for a quick 2...
Using the Home Office Deduction in Valparaiso
This article reviews one of the most common business deductions, especially for self-employed business owners, the Home Office Deduction. So if you’re getting everything together for your tax return, and you have some business expenses you want to claim--Great! The...
How is coworking different in Valparaiso?
Wow, there's a coworking space in Valparaiso? Being a coworking space in a city of 35k means we can do things a little different than office spaces nearby in Chicago. We get to know our members at a closer level (if they want), we get to play a bigger part in the...
Should I work where I sleep?
Remote working is becoming readily available for many different fields, but does that mean working from home is the right way ahead? Like anything, it depends on the circumstances and your goals. Let's look at a couple different alternatives and explore when is the...
Coworking Space VS. a Small Office
Coworking or Small Office? We'll look at the differences between renting in a coworking space verse getting a small office somewhere in Valparaiso and Northwest Indiana.So you're looking to rent a small office for your business because you're moving to the next level....
Why Coworking?
Ever wonder why tech giants like Google and Yahoo discourage telecommuting? They do so because working from home just doesn't cut it. Being in an environment filled with distractions and away from other professionals spells trouble when're you're trying to solve a...