Team Questions

From your own startups experience, who was the one to manage the first developers hired? Why? And also was it a techy startup and how many founders you had / what their roles at the...

Management Team Developers Startups

asked Aug 29 '17 at 14:39

Arnold Aaron
6 points

We're just getting started with scaling our business and one of the things we want to implement is a 4/1 work day. 4 days are spent working, and 1 day is for individual projects (just like Google's...

Employees Human Resources Team Project

asked Jun 6 '14 at 15:27

William Green
14 points

How do you manage tracking daily goals for your team?Our team is a distributed (all 4 of us are in different states) so currently just send a group email at the end of each day stating what was...

Productivity Team Remote Tracking Goals

asked Jul 2 '14 at 19:10

Edward Haley
7 points

Background:A guy reached out to me to join his drone company. I have been fascinated with drones for some time now, I bought my own and I have been toying with the idea of a drone business...

Partnership Team

asked Aug 15 '14 at 17:45

JayJay
106 points

What tools and strategies do you recommend for 100% remote teams to collaborate? Our team of 6 is spread across the globe. Also, how can you create a company culture in such a case?

Culture Strategy Tools Team Remote

asked May 14 '14 at 14:43

Patty Balderas
14 points

What are the top factors that investors look for in a team? Do they only look at the team as a whole or do they also require the CEO to have certain credentials or background?

Funding Credibility Investors Team Skill

asked May 13 '14 at 13:56

Aaron Rew
7 points

What type of team composition (# of people, skill sets) would be most ideal? Both in terms of skills needed to execute and to raise money.

Co-Founder Team

asked Mar 16 '14 at 01:00

Nathanial Norman
10 points

Now that my startup is starting to generate revenue, I'm going to hire a designer, a rails coder, and several SEO people to work remotely. I'll likely start on ODesk and if they are good, move the...

Team Remote Communication Odesk

asked Mar 15 '14 at 12:23

Melissa Gonzales
35 points

I am working on a hardware-software combo B2B startup in Seattle. We've only been around for 2 weeks on a part-time basis. We are two somewhat experienced software/web devs. Together we secured a...

Sales Co-Founder Business Team

asked Dec 4 '13 at 14:45

User2990504
21 points

We have successfully grow our company beyond the startup phase to the expansion phase. now, we're acquiring clients very fast and we need to swiftly and consistently train new members of our...

Business Process Team Organization Expanding

asked Aug 20 '13 at 00:43

Sd Reyes
156 points

We have two different spaces in our office. one, in front of our building, contains our call centre, in the back we have our software development team. Our call centre team seems to like a serious...

Office Team Office Space People

asked Jul 3 '13 at 23:42

Sd Reyes
156 points

Founding my business included a lot of desperation and hard work. Neither do or did I have the social support that was and is necessary to endure tough times. A lot of people recommend working...

Team Support

asked May 30 '13 at 17:44

Zurechtweiser
114 points

It's widespread among (mostly web development) non-huge companies to add a page about the team members of their company, like SE's Team page here, where they have separate page for their team, or...

Team Micro Startup

asked May 7 '13 at 10:04

Tamer Shlash
144 points

I have worked with several developers who are very "hot and cold" in terms of their motivation. Sometimes they will slack off for weeks on a project and make zero progress, and other times they go...

Motivation Management Project Management Team Developers

asked Feb 14 '13 at 09:41

Contrazoom
186 points

I'm currently managing 5 member (whom are also my friends) software development team for my startup and instead of looking for an angel investor I decided to finance my own product by my own. And...

Management Project Management Time Management Team Project Planning

asked Dec 31 '12 at 09:06

Timur Aykut Y?Ld?R?M
121 points

I am about creating a spin-off from University. I will quit my job later even. I talked with all my colleagues and they like the idea and support it. My experience with them in academic projects is...

Business Team Groups

asked Jan 11 '13 at 17:15

Flow
114 points

I'll try to keep this as brief as I can. Recently I have taken up a position within a big agency where I am responsible for an 'innovation cell'. People can voluntarily join this cell and they get...

Management Leadership Team

asked Nov 12 '12 at 21:46

Maikel
18 points

Interesting story. I'm 15 years old. Im planning on launching a start up. Now obviously, there are concerns that I have, not necessarily about the performance of future employees, but my...

Getting Started Time Management Team Fulltime CEO

asked Aug 16 '12 at 10:27

soup123
43 points

We are considering tracking sales in our business and within the company publicly displaying the performance of the team and each member. What are good ways to implement this and is such a...

Sales Motivation Recommendations Team

asked Aug 4 '12 at 22:47

Nikolay Piryankov
683 points

We are planning for a software startup and following is our setup. There are 4 people who came up with idea. But these people can NOT code and build a product. These 4 people are also going to...

Software Equity Founders Agreement Team

asked Jul 11 '12 at 21:24

John M
8 points