Babies are born in cabbages. Startups are born in garages.

Good. Me, to my great disappointment, I never had a garage.

Suddenly, this great "weather" adventure began in my room :

then she continued in mom's kitchen :

I took a little social break at Co-Work (this is where the company was born):

and finally, I worked all last year in my "cave" in Lumbin:

So far, that's pretty much done. But now Pioupiou is starting to get a little taller. So he needed a new nest.

In search of the perfect office

I concocted a little recipe for the ideal place:

• Having premises of my own − so that you no longer depend on someone else. That way it's me who decides if I have the right to put a big pipe that goes through the window
• Have plenty of room to spread out my lab stuff
• Having great internet − because in Lumbin, ADSL sucks so much that I had to connect to 4G
• Have plenty of friends to mess around with – like at Co-Work
• Being able to park easily with the big truck
• Being able to go to work by bike − without the risk of getting a retro at 90km/h in the head

Not easy to meet all the criteria at once. But fortunately, I ended up finding my happiness.

He's there :

So I have 63m2 brand new, in the heart of Grenoble. The lease is signed. I'm moving in next week.

It's almost a perfect shot. Only two things are missing: optical fiber (which is in the street but not connected), and …

Buddies!

Well yes. No way to work alone.

I did find partners for the project, but most of them are not in Grenoble.

So you need office buddies. For now, I'm looking for the magic formula. I am tempted to make it a somewhat underground place, on the border between coworking and fablab.

Like “instead of working alone at home, come and stay with me at my premises for a day/a month/a year. We each work on our own project, but by pooling our expertise and our equipment”

Anyone potentially interested? (mail me -> nicolas@pioupiou.fr)