Every independent coworking space operator carries a version of the feeling: "I'm not running a ‘Real’ coworking space, am I?"

You’re running 20 desks, fifty desks, or even a hundred. You’ve built something real. A community. A local business. Somewhere people who show up because your space matters to them. And you’re constantly aware of the distance between what you’ve built and what you can see in your head.

Bernie Mitchell explores why that gap isn't failure but proof that somethings working.