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Or Caffè Nero. Or Costa, or any one of a million identical coffee ‘houses’. You see them, these sad would-be entrepreneurs, sitting around a too-tiny table crammed with laptops and empty sandwich wrappers, projecting flow charts for 08 and all this meaningless gobtoss. They’re always so earnest about their meeting, largely because they realize one thing: that nothing says I AM A LOSER! more loudly and more clearly than having a business meeting in a café. Why not just have it at a bus stop? Or in your mum’s front room? Nobody is ever going to believe that you have the ability to raise millions of dollars and run an international corporation if a) you haven’t even got your own office, and b) you’ve got latte down your trousers.