Struggling to connect on your remote team?We’ve built a 68 person remote team that’s driving $29 million in annual revenue.Here are 10 ideas for building great culture in a distributed team: 💻🌐— Nathan Barry (@nathanbarry) January 11, 2022
12 Tips For Managing a Remote Team (And Loving It)
The future of work is both near and far. It’s near because things are changing right in front of you, but far because that’s where the remote workers are. Not only are more people working...
An increasing number of early-stage founders are thinking about using remote teams to build their startups. This article gives you some perspectives on why and when you can and how to do it well.
If you’re thinking of going remote, here’s what successful leaders of remote companies do… Earlier this month, I spoke with a CEO who’s looking to transition her company to become remote in the upcoming year.
In a recent interview, Sid Sijbrandij, the founder of Gitlab observed something about remote teams that I think is absolutely true. I’ve seen it in many of the remote/distributed companies we work with. He said: Remote forces you to do the things you should be doing any way earlier and better As companies scale, they need to develop infrastructure to successfully manage and coordinate large numbers of people. But in the early days, by virtue of being close to each other physically, it’s easier to delay some of these investments.
The Heartbeat: Interview with Wade Foster, CEO and Co-Founder of Zapier on Spotify
Listen to this episode from The Heartbeat on Spotify. As the CEO and Co-Founder of a $35MM+ revenue company with over 2 million users, Wade shares what he wishes he would’ve learned earlier about intellectual honesty in management, feedback, and running a remote company. Every few weeks as part of The Heartbeat, I ask one question to a founder, CEO, or business owner I… Read the full article
The Heartbeat: Interview with Nick Francis, CEO and Co-Founder of Help Scout on Spotify
Listen to this episode from The Heartbeat on Spotify. As the CEO and Co-Founder of Help Scout, Nick Francis talks about being self-aware of all the things that you don’t know as a leader, hiring people in a remote culture, having and recognizing your own flaws, and that the real measure of a good leader is what happens when you’re not around. Every few… Read the full article
Listen to this episode from Rework on Spotify. One of our colleagues on the Basecamp customer support team, Jayne Ogilvie, wanted to find out how other tech companies with remote staffs handle issues like communication, career development, and hiring. Jayne sent out a survey and got back a wealth of information and ideas about how other teams work together. In this episode, we hear more from two participating companies: Sarah Park of MeetEdgar talks about how their staff gathers internal feedback on important decisions, and Patrick Filler and Anitra St. Hilaire of Harvest talk about taking on the challenge of making their company more diverse and inclusive.
Listen to this episode from Remote Work on Spotify. In this episode, we interviewed Ryan Carson. He is the co-founder and CEO of Treehouse, an online coding school that teaches how to make apps, software and how to build a website to over 80,000 students around the world. When Ryan started Treehouse, he was living in the UK and started to hire employees from the US. They saw the value in remote work; they could hire the best wherever they were, and quickly integrated them into the team without relocating. In this episode, we talked to Ryan about, lack of human interaction, in-person meet-ups, facetime, technology tools, building trust, and the different types of founders. Show highlights? Ryan believes that trust is one of the most important elements for handling remote work. To help integrate “trust” into the team, Ryan uses a tree analogy… where the root is the integrity, the trunk is the intention, and the branches are the capabilities. The last part of the tree is the leaves which are the results. Stay tuned for more!
