Why working from home or Starbucks is a bad idea(venturebeat.com)
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Why working from home or Starbucks is a bad idea
http://venturebeat.com/2010/11/02/5-reasons-working-from-home-or-starbucks-is-a-bad-idea/
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It wasn't implying 30,000 feet of space. He was referring to the '30,000 foot view' - the 'high view' of the project/company. It's easy to have a 'big picture view' of things at a coffee shop - "we'll have a login screen here!" - but you can't map out how you want it to work without delving in to more details than is practical to do in a public space.
Then it leads into why building a company is this environment is bad. Your employees are going to start looking for other startups, you don't have enough whiteboard to map things out.
It seems to me that the reasons for needing "30,000" square feet of office space are applicable to a financed company, not so much a bootstrap. I don't think the argument that's being made here is supported by the arguments for it.
From my own experience at least in building random projects out, Starbucks works really well for me. I bring headphones, so the distractions of the "annoying person on the phone" don't really apply. It helps me focus because it does get rid of the distractions of home, without adding any distractions.