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10 articles

10 articles on New Club Cocoon tagged "small business."

10 articles

  • A flat illustration of a tall office building rising against a pale sky with a few simple clouds

    What a ten-year lease really costs

    The rate on the listing is the smallest number in the deal, and a decade of additional rent, fit-out and exit costs can roughly double it.

    Maya Ferrante 8 min read

  • A flat illustration of a tidy desk with a clipboard checklist and a pen beside a laptop

    The office that shrank and got busier

    A firm gave up a third of its floor, spent the savings on the rooms people actually used, and found its office fuller than before.

    Ruth Anand 4 min read

  • A flat illustration of a small corner shopfront with a ladder, a toolbox and a paint roller outside

    Six weeks to fit out a corner café

    The build took six weeks because the hard part, the drawings, approvals and orders, happened in the four months before anyone picked up a tool.

    Colm Brady 5 min read

  • A flat illustration of a row of narrow shopfronts with a small moving truck parked at the curb

    The shop that moved three doors down

    A short move on the same street still meant two leases, one overlap month and a long list of things that had nothing to do with boxes.

    June Whitaker 5 min read

  • A flat illustration of two simple bar charts side by side, one labelled before and one labelled after

    How to read a retail footfall report

    A landlord’s traffic numbers can help you price a unit, as long as you know how they were counted and turn them into sales you can test.

    Devin Oakes 4 min read

  • A flat illustration of an open laptop showing a simple grid of app tiles on its screen

    Who still signs flex-space deals

    Flexible offices cost more per desk than a conventional lease, and for a surprising range of tenants that premium is exactly the point.

    Ruth Anand 5 min read

  • A flat illustration of a balance scale holding three simple objects: a folded document, a calculator and a small key

    In defence of the boring broker

    The tenant rep worth hiring is rarely the one with the best stories, and that is exactly the point.

    Omar Saleh 5 min read

  • A flat illustration of a wall calendar with most of its days crossed off and a long weekend circled

    Moving an office over one long weekend

    A 22-person firm left Friday at noon and opened Tuesday at nine in a new building, and almost all of the work happened months before.

    June Whitaker 5 min read