This is almost coloving

Jeff Laflamme
AngkorHUB
Published in
3 min readMar 22, 2018

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A Better Lemonade Stand, an e-commerce incubator just posted a blog article about the 10 best #colivingspaces in the world .. and guess who’s there ..

AngkorHUB is doing Coworking since 2014 but we have actually started to do offer “bed as an amenity” to our weekly and monthly members in 2015, aiming at Digital Nomads and travelling professionals with a “Productive on Arrival” package, including food, airport pickups, SIM cards, etc.

Back in 2015, we were the only space on nomadhouse.io offering all-inclusive packages with SIM card and airport transfers. Since then, hundreds of successful people have passed by from bootstrappers to blockchain developers, savvy travellers and innovators.

The moment when investors are coming to take sneaky pictures of your concept :-)

Get ready to pay for work

This is something 9–5 cannot bring, #coworking is the only place people are PAYING to work, so they do get things done!

I still go in cafés when I travel, but I know if I need collaboration, creativity and inspiration I would need to check-in at a coworking space.

That is so true, that obvisouly technologists, investors and community builders are going to Coworking Spaces events. But they don’t actually always work from there. They model has to change. I promise an quite intense article on that ;-)

Nevertheless, this is the future of work, there is no doubt that being surrounded by hard-working people will motivate you. Speaking of which, I invite you to read some amazing articles “You will become your environment” and “Work Hard Brake Hard” by Danny Forest, top author in the Startup and Travel categories on Medium.

I was lucky enough to work with Danny on a project with at least 12 hours a day of coding. Dedication, discipline & stand up meetings! That period honestly was one of the biggest highlights of the last 12 months. We got s…things done.

A dorm for adults

Paired with coliving, bringing meaningful human connections is what it is all about. Some people are talking about “dorm for adults” and other not-experienced-coliving-headlines, but this is more than that. Actually, there are more results than the retreats they are dreaming about.

Have you experienced been surrounded by highly dynamic and entrepreneurial people as a way of living before?

Real connections are not happening in your Air BNB

That moment when you go to visit temples, doing a bike ride or visiting floating villages with other entrepreneurs, that moment when you cook or share a drink together after a big day of work, those are all meaningful connections and their benefit cannot be described in few words, it needs to be experienced.

Work/life Balance

We don’t talk about business all the time, nor playing all the time, but we are finding balance with people who got our back in our entrepreneurial journey, connecting their networks, their skills and their interest in helping each other.

I call this #coloving

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Founder @angkorhub coworking & coliving / @geekhoSR /@GetLoyPayments