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The benefits of business with no fixed abode

Do entrepreneurs need an office? Increasingly the view seems to be no.

A nifty new book called Out of Office by Chris Ward, is a manifesto in favour of roaming around using temporary hotspots to work. It was hard for me to resist this freelancer’s manual: the inside cover features a picture of one of my Gail’s bakeries.

The author explains how President Barack Obama’s first inauguration speech was written by 27-year-old Jon Favreau sitting in Starbucks; how Richard Tait, creator of Cranium, started the board game in a coffee shop; how Michael Acton Smith invented the children’s virtual world Moshi Monsters in his local Caffè Nero; and how JK Rowling, the novelist behind Harry Potter, believes a café is the best place to write.

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卢克•约翰逊

卢克•约翰逊(Luke Johnson)是一位成果颇丰的企业家和创业家,他为英国《金融时报》撰写企业家专栏。他目前担任英国皇家艺术协会的主席,并管理着一家私人股本投资公司——Risk Capital Partners。约翰逊曾在牛津大学学医,但是毕业后却进入投行业。他在1992年收购PizzaExpress,担任其董事长,并将其上市。到1999年出售的时候,PizzaExpress的股价已经从40英镑涨至800英镑。

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