What's your starup office setup?

[NaPal]

<div class="bbWrapper">I&#039;m working on the process of narrowing down my ideas to the best option and am in the process of getting my in-home office ready.<br /> <br /> My wife and I just bought a house 3 months a go and I am finally putting the office together. I&#039;ve been out of college for 1.5 years and have worked full time in the IT industry for 1 year. I&#039;ve decided it is time I work for myself. It is time to make myself money and not someone else.<br /> <br /> I&#039;ve found it extremely hard to try to start anything by using a laptop on a couch.:smash:<br /> <br /> We are devoting a room in our house to the sole purpose of being my office to start our ventures. Next thing on the list is to build myself a good PC to use.<br /> <br /> Pictures will be coming soon of my setup, however it&#039;s a work in progress and there is currently filing cabinets, bookcases, and random things all over the place.<br /> <br /> So what&#039;s your startup office look like?</div>

 

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[LightHouse]

<div class="bbWrapper">any room with a electric plug, bonus if there is an Ethernet hookup</div>

 

[PatrickP]

<div class="bbWrapper">Start-up office and current office is the same.<br /> <br /> My lap top and the couch, or back yard, or Starbucks or beach if I can get enough shade to see the screen, in the car if my wife is driving.</div>

 

[FionaS]

<div class="bbWrapper">pnasty, I&#039;m the same as you in as, it&#039;s hard to start something sitting on the couch. I just get distracted by everything going on. Currently, I don&#039;t have an office, so I tend to go to the library to get work done. Once we finish moving, I will have a dedicated office I can work in.</div>

 

[oddball]

<div class="bbWrapper">My office has a outlet, sink, small counter space, a carpet, and oh yea, a toilet. Nice and quiet.</div>

 

[craig1928]

<div class="bbWrapper">Each to their own really, some people can work on their couch, some not; you hear stories of entrepreneurs on their laptops in the back of their cars.<br /> <br /> For me personally I&#039;ve got a good sized desk, desktop, I want to get another monitor, one just doesn&#039;t feel like enough real estate.</div>

 

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[BostonH]

<div class="bbWrapper">Mine is left over from my day job... I do a lot of plans, and need to see a lot of info at the same time.... so it&#039;s a PC with 2 screens, plus a laptop linked together with Synergy so it acts as a 3 screen desktop. For me, it&#039;s great! I can have the Fastlane Forum up on one screen, while I work on plans/etc on the others. But I guess really all you need is a space to think and an idea and I think you can make things happen.</div>

 

[Kung Fu Steve]

<div class="bbWrapper">You can do anything these days with a cell phone and a laptop.<br /> <br /> Hate to be a dick (but I kind of am...) quit making excuses. You should have started a year and a half ago not &quot;when I have an office&quot;.</div>

 

[Runum]

<div class="bbWrapper">Easy chair with laptop.</div>

 

[The-J]

<div class="bbWrapper">If it flashes and is connected to the Internet, I work on it. I carry a tablet around for that reason.<br /> <br /> If you&#039;re going to be an entrepreneur in the Information Age, you&#039;re going to have to get used to getting work done wherever you can. Even people with jobs find themselves having to answer e-mails on the toilet through their phones.</div>

 

[AllenCrawley]

<div class="bbWrapper">I have a home office with a large executive desk (found on Craigslist for $20), a wall mounted 4 foot by 8 foot whiteboard (which is really a slick surfaced wall panel purchased at Lowes for $10), an imac and a smartphone (no land line).</div>

 

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[shogun.vader]

<div class="bbWrapper">A few times I went old school, hand a piece of paper and pencil. Jotted down my ideas. I have laptop, a second lcd panel, a smart phone and tablet, but honestly I like writing in a paper book I bought recently. Point is, is it doesn&#039;t matter what you do or do not have, or even where it is. Business can be anywhere, I have ideas written on napkins (which I later transferred to the computer). <br /> <br /> But my office, the world. <br /> <br /> Sometimes I pick up a paper receipt, fold it into a dragon and leave my contact info for a potential client (and sometimes girls).<br /> Make the world your business office, and be creative with it!</div>

 

[JEdwards]

<div class="bbWrapper">Huge conference table.. One laptop.. 4 chairs.</div>

 

[Kak]

<div class="bbWrapper">Laptop, and desk with 2 different used 22&quot; monitors, a comfy chair. <br /> <br /> The smartphone is my most used office.<br /> <br /> If I&#039;m leaving for more than a few hours the laptop comes with. I tried to tie my tablet PC into the mix, but there is really no place for it, it is mostly for reading at night when the GF is asleep.</div>

 

[Skys]

<div class="bbWrapper">In &#039;the toiletpaper entrepreneur&#039; the writer gives the tip to do meet-ups in lobby&#039;s of hotels. It&#039;s super interesting to me how I have this image in my head what a company should look like, and how you only really need a laptop and a phone. If you are creative, you might not even need a laptop and a phone?</div>

 

[LightHouse]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="" data-quote="Kung Fu Steve" data-source="post: 222213" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/community/goto/post?id=222213" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-222213">Kung Fu Steve said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> You can do anything these days with a cell phone and a laptop.<br /> <br /> Hate to be a dick (but I kind of am...) quit making excuses. You should have started a year and a half ago not &quot;when I have an office&quot;. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote><br /> <br /> YUP! I actually have an office in my house, nice huge cherry L desk, aeron chair, dual monitors, extra laptop, server rack, etc etc etc. Almost never work in there. I actually work better sitting on the couch on my laptop, or on the deck, or anywhere people are. I can&#039;t work in isolation.</div>

 

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[Kak]

<div class="bbWrapper">This is not a start-up setup, I am already up. Here&#039;s my bust my a$$ setup. The laptop runs the monitors, it is nice because it is the same computer then when I travel. The monitors also allow me to keep it closed. The computer does not show ANY wear and tear yet and it is about 6 months old already. <br /> <br /> I buy cheap computers more often rather than more expensive computers every 4-5 years. I only spend 400 on the i3 inspiron 15r. The Monitor on the right is a TV I bought for my college dorm room freshman year. The monitor on the left was in my parent&#039;s attic. The keyboard and mouse are a $39 microsoft job at Best Buy, the internet is Clearwire 4g, printer (not shown) is a brother all-in-one (it can scan multiple pages at once!), phone is an HTC Vivid, desk was from the attic too. <br /> <br /> I probably spent under 1k on all of this and it works perfectly fine. I have no plans to change any time soon. Some people spend 2k on a computer alone!<br /> <br /> Now if I had my pick it would be twin 27&quot; monitors or trip 22&quot;. A brother laser AIO. That stuff will come later though.</div>

 

[JasonR]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="" data-quote="craig1928" data-source="post: 222208" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/community/goto/post?id=222208" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-222208">craig1928 said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> Each to their own really, some people can work on their couch, some not; you hear stories of entrepreneurs on their laptops in the back of their cars.<br /> <br /> For me personally I&#039;ve got a good sized desk, desktop, I want to get another monitor, one just doesn&#039;t feel like enough real estate. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote><br /> Having two monitors is one of the best things you can do for productivity. I&#039;ve got two 20s at work...<br /> <br /> However...one 27&quot; is enough and could stand in place of two displays. Do it...you&#039;ll love it.</div>

 

[Kak]

<div class="bbWrapper">You need to look at the resolution of the monitor to say that a 27 will take the place of twin 20s. Sometimes it just takes the same screen an makes it bigger. No real extra space to work with.</div>