A coworking space is more than simply a place for you to bring your laptop and work. Many entrepreneurs choose to take their company to Houston coworking spaces because these are communities that provide entrepreneurs with the opportunity to work, connect, and learn from one another. They're a great cost-effective option for anyone looking to join collaborative workspaces for entrepreneurs, designers, artists, freelancers, social entrepreneurs, small teams and other entrepreneurial workers.
In the blog post below, we’ve alphabetically listed the coworking spaces in Houston who provide great work environments for entrepreneurs, along with helpful community networks for your company.
Houston Coworking Spaces for Startups
1. Cowork Lab
- Description: "The Cowork Lab is a coworking place for Startups & Entrepreneurs. Work in an amazing environment surrounded by awesome people. With our productive environment, low-cost, and great networking, your business is guaranteed to grow."
2. FIRMSPACE
- Description: "FIRMSPACE Houston is centrally located in Uptown Houston and offers fiber-optic network, standing desks, spacious common areas, and Texas-sized conference rooms. Along with our premium features for privacy and security, FIRMSPACE Houston offers the ultimate modern-day luxury: peace of mind."
3. Headquarters
- Description: "Headquarters offers flexible, creative office workspace with the amenities and perks of a corporate office. Get the best of both worlds. We understand the needs of small businesses and start-ups, and strive to create a unique, creative community in the heart of America's fourth largest city."
4. Houston Technology Center
- Description: "If you enjoy the freedom and energy of an open community workspace, we offer co-working facilities at our Midtown location. Our coworking opportunities connect you with other entrepreneurs in a collaborative, high-growth environment."
5. Impact Hub Houston
- Description: "We’re a locally rooted, globally connected community working to help people create real-world innovation and build sustainable solutions with scalable impact. Our goal: To make Houston a role model for how the world solves its most pressing issues."
6. Local Office
- Description: "Local Office is a modern, shared workspace for small businesses, entrepreneurs, and solo practitioners. We offer beautifully designed private offices and open coworking in a community environment."
7. Novel Coworking
- Description: "With special features like the corporate logo display, your customers will walk into this professional environment and see your edge on the competition! Novel Coworking’s offices for rent in Houston give your company instant external credibility to match your success-oriented attitude."
8. Ranch Office
- Description: "Grow your business at The Ranch, a Texas-born cowork space in Houston made for small businesses, freelancers, and other entrepreneurs. Located in Spring Branch, our beautiful, rustic headquarters provides a flexible work space, meeting space, and everything you need to run and grow your business."
9. RED Labs
- Description: "RED Labs is the University of Houston's coworking space, startup accelerator, and technology entrepreneurship program. Supported by the Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship, we work with UH-affiliated founders (faculty, students, and recent alumni of the past 6 months) to turn their startup ideas into reality."
10. Station Houston
- Description: "Station Houston aims to transform Houston into a world-leading hub for technology innovation and entrepreneurship. This vision unfolds as a vibrant community where people live, work and play, with Station serving as the connective tissue fostering our culture of innovation...We’ve tripled our office space, our team has grown to 12, and we’ve begun investing in some of our most promising startups."
11. TechSpace
- Description: "TechSpace Houston features smartly configured floor plans designed to promote worker productivity in a collaborative, community-centric environment. The beautifully designed campus provides businesses a best in class experience, including interconnecting and scalable offices, fully-equipped conference rooms and thought provoking collaboration lounges combined with energetic community experiences."
12. The Annex HTX
- Description: "The Annex HTX is an innovative and exciting co-working community in East Downtown Houston where free lancers, designers, writers, artists, small business owners and other entrepreneurs come to work + inspire + collaborate."
13. The Cannon Houston
- Description: "A coworking ecosystem for Houston's entrepreneurs, small businesses, freelancers, and creatives. Join us for events, programming, educational opportunities and much more, all custom designed to help your business succeed."
14. The Work Well
- Description: "Whether you are a freelance professional, innovator, designer, writer, artist, small business owner or other entrepreneur, this is the place to work, collaborate, motivate and inspire with others. More than just a place to work, The Work Well provides an ideal setting for your business to thrive. Activities like Lunch n Learns, networking events, Friday barista service, brand enhancement seminars, monthly growth celebrations, and more allow for continued upward growth for your business."
15. Ventures Coworking
- Description: "Ventures is an interactive community where entrepreneurs, start-ups, small businesses, remote employees of larger enterprises, and just “people” collaborate, innovate & excel together – everyone works better when we work together. And more than just a great place to work, now you can enjoy a vibrant community with the comforts of home, plus oodles of high quality office amenities."
16. Washington Office Co.
- Description: "Our coworking space in Houston designed for the agile workforce and delivers amazing hospitality, authentic community, and top notch office tech. Enjoy blazing fiber connectivity, locally roasted coffee, and an amenity rich live-work ecosystem while you let freedom ring."
17. WeWork
- Description: "WeWork enables you to secure space with all the necessary amenities that spell success—dedicated front-desk staff, spacious conference rooms, and impressive private offices—along with modern perks like month-to-month flexibility, passionate Community Managers, and special events. WeWork’s locations in Houston help you make your own 10-year plan a reality."
18. Wicowork
- Description: "Wicowork is a coworking Space and a network of local business and business tools that are committed to the new lifestyle of mobility and independence."
19. WorkLodge
- Description: "At WorkLodge we believe your business, when it can clearly focus without distractions, can transform your life and the lives of others. After all, that’s why you got into business to begin with. Yes, office space can change lives yours included. We’ll prove it to you."
20. Workplace 1919
- Description: "Want a workplace with personality? Workplace 1919 is Houston’s newest Co-Working space, located in a beautifully restored historic building in the heart of the Washington Avenue Arts District. Workplace 1919 has offices available for rental by local entrepreneurs and non-profits on a weekly basis."
Choosing a Coworking Space in Houston
When you are researching coworking spaces to decide which is best for you or your company, there are a number of factors to consider. For this reason, we encourage you to visit any potential coworking space before deciding to work there. Better yet, visit the space during the usual hours on which you would be working or communiting, to get an understanding of how your daily experience would be. Take notes, and make an informed decision.
Below are some of the most important factors to consider when choosing a coworking space in Houston:
- Location. This goes beyond the space's location in the city or whether there is good food nearby, though those can both be bonus factors. How is the commute? What is the parking situation? Will you potentially have to pay for parking? If so, would that included in your contract?
- Community. When you join a coworking space, you're becoming a part of their community. Every coworking space in Houston is different, and it's important to learn about their cultures. What is the relationship between the people who work at a given coworking space and that space's staff? Is a certain coworking space more reserved, while another is outgoing? Which environment would you prefer to work in? How often do these coworking spaces host events?
- Amenities. Does the coworking space have everything you need to be productive? Do they provide coffee? Snacks? Do they have call rooms or Skype rooms, or more equipment like 3D printers or advanced scanners? If you were meeting with an investor or an investor at the coworking space, would there be any suitable meeting rooms? How about entertainment? Do they have anything quirky or fun, which could help you relax after a busy day?
- Cost. Different coworking spaces offer different plans, so it's doubly important to read your contract carefully and understand what you're signing up for. Generally, however, coworking spaces increase or decrease in monthly cost based on the quality of their amenities and on their location. A cheaper coworking space probably won't provide you with a swimming pool or access to a state-of-the-art gym, though if the cheaper space has a fantastic community, it could prove to be even more valuable than the luxury coworking space.
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