As always, we here at BYE look out for the young entrepreneurs of Boston. We know how valuable legal help is, so we recommend to everyone that their first step in starting a business is finding a good lawyer.

Our partner ACCION USA is hosting a great workshop for anyone who needs beginner legal help.

If you’ve been in business for less than 5 years, join ACCION for their FREE introductory workshop followed by private consultations on business and legal questions relating to choice of entity and forming a new entity.

When: Wednesday, January 15, 6:00-8:30 pm

Where:  Kirstein Business Library
Conference Rooms 05/06
Boston Public Library
700 Boylston Street
Boston, MA

Workshops and consultations are free, but must be scheduled no later than Monday, January 12. For more information or to make a reservation, please register online or call ACCION USA at (617) 684-0215.

Lauren Porat from Urban Interns sent along this notice to me about their services and a discount they’re offering. I figured you guys might be able to take advantage of their listing services given how heavily many of you rely on interns to run your companies

“Do you need an extra set of hands to help you gear up for a productive fall but don’t want the financial responsibility of a full-time employee? Check out Urban Interns, an online marketplace focused on connecting small business owners with college students and grads looking for part-time work and internships. Post a job, search our database, connect with candidates through our private communication platform.  Named One of America’s Most Promising Startups by BusinessWeek, Urban Interns just launched in Boston and is offering a special $5 discount to Boston Young Entrepreneurs Program members. Use discount code ONEB5. Questions? Email lauren@urbaninterns.com.”

Boston Young Entrepreneurs’ partner WorkBar, which offers office space for a monthly fee on the model of a gym membership, has some exciting news: they’ve moved!

To celebrate, WorkBar is hosting an open house TOMORROW. I’ve heard their space is beautiful, so make sure to take a walk over and see it.

If you can’t make it tomorrow, go experience their new space at 711 Atlantic Avenue on Thursday for free co-working day.

As we work on a more permanent solution to housing (officing?) the startup community in Boston, we’ll highlight potential opportunities wherever we can find them.

On that note, the East Boston Chamber of Commerce is co-hosting an open house at 175 McLellan Highway, a property that has opened itself up to startup businesses. If you need space and use the airport, service the North Shore, East Boston or Downtown, or need parking to conduct your business, this may be a great opportunity for you.

Either way, I suggest getting out there and seeing it for yourself.

More info on the East Boston Chamber’s website.

Date: December 17th

Time: 5:30 to 7:30pm

Location: 175 McLellan Highway, East Boston

Cort and Jake from DartBoston have a great program on Pokin’ Holes tonight featuring Jason Evanish and Greenhorn Connect.

They’ve also been kind enough to invite ME to sit on the panel. I’m honored and excited and I hope you’ll come support Greenhorn, Dart and BYE by joining us tonight at the NERD Center in Kendall Square.

Find out more on the Dart blog and reserve your spot here. Please make sure to be there no later than 6pm.

On Thursday, November 19th, Boston Young Entrepreneurs and ACCION USA co-hosted a panel discussion on alternative financing for small businesses.

Andrew Prescott of Urban Adventours and Marty Walsh of Geekhouse Bikes provided their financing histories, and Sherri Lane of ACCION USA chimed in regularly to provide insight into the funder’s point of view.

After the panel, we heard feedback from several attendees that a primer on financing would be helpful. Both Andrew and Marty relied on several different funding streams and the success of their businesses rests on their ability to navigate these streams successfully.

With that in mind, if you have any questions about your options in terms of financing, please take a look at the following ACCION resources:

DIFFERENT TYPES OF LOANS AND LOAN OPTIONS

THE PROS AND CONS OF USING A CREDIT CARD

A BASIC GUIDE TO FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

Please ask any questions you have in the comments field and we’ll be sure to answer them!

We know some of you in the Boston Young Entrepreneurs community are not, in fact, entrepreneurs, at least not at this very moment. Many of you are students with an idea or just a desire to get into the startup world, and many of you have started a company in your past but have a 9-5 for the time being.

Well, we’re always telling young people about how much you can learn working at a startup. It’s often a much more comprehensive, interesting and challenging experience than a regular job.

So, with that in mind, we’d like to point your attention to VentureFizz’ job board for technology companies. This is a quality job board and I know this because, among many other great companies like RunMyErrand and TripAdvisor, I see that BYE Founder Panos Panay’s company Sonicbids is all over it!

Many of you are probably aware of VentureFizz as a great place to go for all types of news on the tech sector in Boston. I highly recommend VentureFizz and suggest you follow them closely if you’re interested in technology. And in this age of plentiful media, make sure to track them on Twitter @VentureFizz!

So, to recap: VentureFizz is awesome in general and even better because they have a job board just for you. For your future reference, VentureFizz will be in the links section to the right of the page.

Young Entrepreneurs Initiative is the French Embassy’s effort to support startups with global ambition and potential. Yann LeBeux, the YEi program manager, has been a regular Boston Young Entrepreneurs participant for quite a while.

YEi is free and focuses on the key issues that young entrepreneurs everywhere face, including team building, patents, funding and more. Unfortunately for us, but fortunately for France, getting into the YEi program is competitive and, yes, being a government run program there are rules for applying.

So, here are the BYE words of wisdom: if you fit their rules and regs, definitely apply. It’s a great program and this is your opportunity both shift your business into international high gear AND start taking fantastic, long lunches in Parisian brasseries with red wine.

Young Entrepreneurs Initiative Online

Rules of Entry

AND FINALLY

Everyone apply!

Venrock’s David Beisel has built a tremendous and powerful organization in the Web Innovators Group, which provides the opportunity for web and mobile startups to exhibit their businesses to a large audience made up of Boston’s entrepreneurial and venture capital community.

WebInno’s quarterly events have become can’t miss in Boston and I’ve found them both incredibly interesting and fertile ground for contacts and networking.

I hereby bestow the Boston Young Entrepreneurs stamp of approval (we’d love the WebInno stamp of approval as well, but that’s neither here nor there!) on WebInno, and recommend that you check out their next event on December 7th.

Their link will be included in the links section on the right side of the page for your reference.

I just had a conversation with Brian Shaw from the excellent BYE company Social Boston Sports. Among other topics, we discussed the pressing need that startups in Boston have for office space. As Brian said, you can only work in your living room for so long before going insane.

Brian’s been looking at all kinds of options, from striking out on his own with his SBS co-founder Justin Obey to joining up with 2 or 3 or 4 other companies from BYE to lease a bigger space. There are some issues with both approaches and Brian hasn’t been able to figure out the best way to navigate them.

So, I’d like to throw it out there for the BYE community to respond with your thoughts.

First, have you had success finding space as a startup? Where and how? What are some options out there?

Second, would you be open to co-leasing with another BYE company in order to get space?

Third, do you have any outside the box ideas about how we, as a community of entrepreneurs can solve this problem?

And last, since BYE is part of the Boston Redevelopment Authority, do you have any outside the box ideas for what the City of Boston could do to support you?

Please use the comments thread as a discussion forum for startup space related thoughts.