How common is it to work out of coffee shops? Where I'm from (Norway) I think you'd be asked to leave if you were to be sitting in a coffee shop day in and day out - unless you were drinking a whole lot of coffee, eating a lot of food, and drinking a lot of beer in the evening. Is it mostly a day-time activity perhaps? When the shop could be mostly empty anyway? The start-up culture is not so strong here though, and people tend to lease space in dedicated "start-up spaces".