Growing a Virtual Company & Maintaining Team Moxie

Track: 
Business and Strategy
Experience: 
Beginner

Five years ago Lullabot was a two person shop. Join cofounder Matt Westgate as he walks you through the pitfalls, the success points and funnier moments of creating a virtual team of nearly 30 people.

This session will explore the tools and connection points used with a virtual team on a day-to-day basis. We'll discuss the tech side of collaborative text-editors, screen shares, private twitter accounts, group chats, voip systems to help get the job done. But we'll also delve into the more difficult aspects of being virtual: how to be heard, recognized, and more importantly, empowered.

Learn the expectations to embrace when being virtual, the ways to boost team moral and have the ride of your life creating kick ass projects in your underwear.

Intended audience: 

Business owners, freelancers, business development people, virtual employees

Questions answered by this session
Question 1: 
What are the best collaboration tools for a virtual company?
Question 2: 
How do we have our virtual employees/freelancers feel more like part of the team?
Question 3: 
What does a purely virtual company look like in terms of management, resources and communication?
Question 4: 
How do you manage expectations with clients in being a virtual company?
Question 5: 
Are there times when it's best to get together in person?
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Comments

Growing virtual teams

As more and more firms go virtual, this is a real challenge. Looking forward to hearing how Lullabots managed these travails.

Lullawisdom

Looking forward to this one Matt.

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