The latest cost-slashing trend for the geekerati? Taking a page from the past (think Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard) and bunking together to get their start -ups off the ground. According to adherents, "going lightweight" cuts monthly expenses by up to two-thirds. "We looked at the economy and said, 'This is the right thing for us to do,'" says Adam Bouhenguel, who lives in a "super-geeked-out" Boston apartment with Josh Wilson, his co-founder at Tsumobi.com, a maker of social networking software for mobile devices. Also in Boston are Dan Haubert, 25, and Tom Davis, 24, who moved in together to launch Tickets -tumbler.com, which aims to be the Expedia of sports and concert tickets. The "ugly dump," says Haubert, lets them "live and run a business on a few thousand a month." Then there's Marcus Nelson, 37, who co-founded UserVoice.com, an online suggestion box. Last year, Nelson, his wife, Emily, and their two children moved from Wasau, Wis., to a Santa Cruz (Calif.) beach bungalow with partner Richard White, " 28.
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