Space Race

Want to start your business in a hip, new office space? Although it may sound more appealing than meeting customers and investors in your home's dining room, renting office space is one of the more tricky steps a young company can take. Sign the wrong lease-on space that proves too small, is too expensive or is in the wrong part of town-and you may doom your business to an early demise.

Knowledge is key, so we provide you with resources here to help you lease the perfect office-or help you realize that this is a move worth putting off.

Pamela Rohland writes about the joys and tribulations of entrepreneurship for a variety of regional and national business publications. Robert McGarvey and Babs S. Harrison contributed to this article.

This article was originally published in the March 2001 print edition of Entrepreneur with the headline: Space Race.