Tech Startup Office Moving in the Sacramento Valley

Startup suites around Sacramento tend to be in midtown and downtown buildings, near the Railyards, in downtown Davis and in Roseville office parks. Many are subleases, which means the sublandlord's rules and the building's rules both apply. Ask both about elevator booking, move hours and whether they want proof of insurance; a certificate can be made out to each of them.

Because staff work remotely on move day, the crew has the floor to itself. Desk sets go on the truck backward from the new seat plan, so the first ones off are the ones farthest from the door. Booths and whiteboards come in after the desks, once the aisles are set. Your IT vendor works in the closet alongside us, so the network is coming up while each seat is being set with its screens.

Monitors are the item most likely to be damaged on a startup move, because there are so many and they are thin. Each screen is padded or boxed in a monitor carton, never stacked loose, and arms come off before the screen does. Standing desks are lowered so the columns are short and stable. Booth glass travels upright and separate.

A whiteboard can hold a product roadmap, so the rule is simple: the team photographs or wipes each board before we touch it, and the crew never erases one. Prototypes and anything with a lithium battery go in cases your engineers close, and those cases ride where nothing sits on them. At the new suite each set is placed at its seat and its parts bag checked off against the tag list.