Right after our train arrived at Seattle station, we were headed to WeWork, a cool coworking space where entrepreneurs work on their individual projects. The awesome thing is they always have an opportunity to share their ideas and receive other businessmen's opinions. What I liked the most at WeWork was an incredible atmosphere of the place where people are happy, because they have an opportunity to do what they like! The interior design helps a lot, I bet :)
The video of a tour at the offices is available here.
After the working session at WeWork, I went to explore the city of Seattle! The first thing I saw was, of course, the famous Space Needle! You can actually see it from any place in the city.
By the way, here we ran into our famous chefs from the train Christian and Simone representing C.C.O. Consulting Group, apparently we were going to have something very local and very tasty for dinner :)
The first Starbucks opened exactly here in 1971. You can still see the old logo (yes, the mermaid has the boobs!) People say it's pretty fancy inside: walnut tables and leather seats, but the line is so long, you can even get close enough to the window to see what exactly is inside there. They do have a Starbucks signature mugs that can be bought only here.
Another not even a bit less weird Seattle small business was this steampunk-looking food truck, called Maximus-Minimus. The coolest thing about it is the truck itself, there is actually a bunch of them surfing Seattle and you'll never know their exact location. I was lucky enough just to run into it in the middle of downtown. The metal pig serves some of the best pork sandwiches in the Northwest. 1% of sales goes to Flagship Foundation, which helps kids make healthy food choices, which kind of makes me think that the food truck itself uses only pure products for its sandwiches.
The video of a tour at the offices is available here.
The second famous place in Seattle is its huge farmer's market right at the waterfront. The view from there is amazing and I bet the food is too.
People here do not lack a sense of humor in Seattle!
Project time!
Seattle is the best place ever for my project of craziest start-ups and small business ideas, unfortunately, I had only a couple of hours and visited only 2 from my 3 page list of those.
The first one is an old-fashioned paper retailer located inside the market (which doesn't make it easier to find it). The shop specializes in vintage (let's be honest, just old) advertising, posters, maps, magazines, and newspapers. You might think, why people would buy old paper stuff?
Old Seattle Paperworks opened up in 1976, when its founder and owner John Hanawalt, 'a lifelong obsessive compulsive collector', was only 22. Since then, it has been attracting collectors from the whole world and just curious tourists. The filming inside is prohibited, so are the photos. Too bad, I saw that only when my camera shifted to this sign when exiting the shop :) See video about this magical place later!
Whitefish, Montana tomorrow!
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