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  • Do you want to feel less isolated working on your own?

    By: Hendrik DacquinCC BY 2.0

    I’m a solo founder. I’m working on the startups to the right —>

    I work from home in Pinos del Valle in Andalusia, Spain. There are 2 bars and almost no other tech entrepreneurs and most of my time is spent online – coding, research, emailing, reading, twitter or customer development – pretty much all online.

    Isolation Sucks!

    I love many things about being a solo founder – having my ideas and running with them and the freedom that comes with only having my own feelings to contend with.

    I hate the isolation I sometimes feel, not having people in the same situation as me to have conversations with, share ideas and otherwise be sociable.

    Let’s Lounge!

    Are you a solo founder or solo worker, freelancer, sole proprietor or generally work without the comfort of a team?

    Do you feel the same sense of isolation? Let’s do something about it. Here is a little experiment to see if it makes things better.

    I’ll set up a team room on Sqwiggle for 10 days – a lounge of sorts. In the lounge:

    • Video is always on – you’ll see everyone else.
    • You can set your mode to ‘Busy’ – you’ll still be seen but no one will disturb you.
    • We can talk to each other, chat and share stuff. We can talk about anything – tech/sport/politics/religion around as though we were around the coffee machine/water cooler/pub!
    • Generally get on with whatever we are doing.

    Interested?

    Fill out the form below and I’ll check you out. If you meet my very simple criteria, I’ll send you a free invite to the  ‘lounge’. I’ll only be sending out 10 invites a day, so please let me know if you have any preferences on days. I will not share your email or other details with anyone else. Ever.

    My simple criteria:

    1. You should be an independent solo professional (startups, freelancer or some kind of sole proprietor). You’ll need to have a link to your startup, website or LinkedIn page that I can go check out.
    2. Please tell me something about yourself – so we can have stuff to talk about. I’m not knowingly going to choose people who don’t want to be sociable!

    That’s it! Let’s lounge!!

    ———————– Experiment Closed ——————————–