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Remote WorkHow to allow a remote team do its best work, with Chris NeumannWe interviewed Chris Neumann (The Growth Hacker). He is the founder and CEO of CROmetrics. CROmetrics performs A/B testing for a large number of companies. It provides the marketing, product, design and engineering know-how, to develop the team’s performance. They’ll map out a strategy for optimizing the website and the customer research. CROmetrics is a team of about 50 people and is distributed all through the US.
In this episode we talked to Chris about, Conversion Rate Optimization “CRO”, why is CROmetrics fully remote, instilling company culture, the hiring process, their tools, and how to give feedback.
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2018-10-2940 minRemote WorkHow to Grow a Remote Team, with Seth BrownIn this episode, we interviewed Seth Brown. He is the Chief Operating Officer at Lullabot. Lullabot is a strategy, design, and Drupal development company that have created amazing websites for large-scale publishers. Lullabot was founded in 2006 and has been a remote company since day one.
In this episode we talked to Seth about, Lullabot, running day-to-day operations with Lullabot, remote work transition and PEOs, the differences between collocated and remote, benefits to the environment, employees at Lullabot. We also discussed about improving culture and communication, his mistakes and what he learned, and the challenges that haven't been solved yet.
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2018-10-2242 minRemote WorkHiring a remote team of All-Stars, with Josh PigfordIn this episode, we interviewed Josh. He is the founder of Baremetrics and host of Founder Chats. Baremetrics is a revenue analytics platform that helps subscription companies get inside information about their revenue and customers. Baremetrics is formed by a small team (8 people) spread across the globe doing big things for approximately 800+ customers.
In this episode we talked to Josh about, the benefits of remote work, challenges and what is Josh doing to solve them, scaling a remote company, hiring remote A-players, and preferred tools.
Show highlights? So what are advantages of working remotely according to Josh? Mainly, autonomy and...
2018-10-0828 minRemote WorkMaking Remote E-commerce Work, with Fred PerrottaIn this episode, we interviewed Fred Perrotta. He is the Co-Founder & Remote CEO of Tortuga Backpacks. The company that creates amazing carry-on-size backpacks, specially designed for long-term urban trips. Tortuga Backpacks is a fully remote team, with nine employees working from home. Most of them are based in the US, one in Canada, and one in China.
In this episode we talked to Fred about, their decision to go 100% remote, establishing trust, autonomy, the benefits of working remotely, challenges of an e-commerce remote business, communication, lack of standardization, Instilling culture, and their preferred tools.
For Fred, trust plays a big...
2018-10-0135 minRemote WorkHow To Structure Your Remote Team Legally, with Peldi Guilizzoni.In this episode, we interviewed Peldi Guilizzoni. He is the Founder & CEO of Balsamiq. Balsamiq helps you to go from ideas to prototypes in no time. It is basically a rapid wireframing tool that reproduces the experience of sketching on a whiteboard. Balsamiq is a fully remote-optimized company with their main headquarters located in Bologna, Italy. Everybody working at Balsamiq, works from home.
In this episode we talked to Peldi about, why did Balsamiq choose to go remote, legal realities of the virtual world, tips for founders, how Balsamiq solves the isolation problem, and preferred tools for working remotely.
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2018-09-1727 minRemote WorkDesigning A Perfect Week, with Alexis KingsburyIn this episode, we interviewed Alexis Kingsbury . He is an experienced business consultant and serial entrepreneur. Alexis is the co-founder at Spidergap and founder of Parentpreneur Accelerator.
Spidergap is an “employee-friendly 360-degree feedback tool”, typically used by mid-large organizations. Alexis has been running Spidergap for about 7 years with a completely remote team of about 8-10 members dispersed all around the world. Parentpreneur Accelerator is aimed at helping parents who are looking to start a new business.
In this episode we talked to Alexis about his ventures, his morning routine, working in a home-office when kids are around, his hiring process, advi...
2018-09-1045 minRemote WorkManaging A Remote Marketing Team, with Richard HebyIn this episode, we interviewed Richard Heby. He is a creative writer founding editor of Beechwood Review and Marketing Manager at Liquid Space. Liquid Space is one of the largest office network platforms in the world. It provides flexible working space, from an hour in a meeting room, to a day pass in a co-working place, and up to 3 years in a long-term.
The nature of Liquid Space is to promote working remotely. They help their customers work anywhere; usually “Digital Nomads” but they also do it themselves. They are distributed across the globe and use their own products sometimes.
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2018-09-0329 minRemote WorkWhy Hire For Values And Not For Skills, with Melissa NgIn this episode, we interviewed Melissa Ng. She is a Digital Nomad, Product UX designer, and Entrepreneur. She is the founder of the location-independent UX design studio, Melewi (@melewi). Melewi designs UX products for big companies such as McDonald's, Samsung, Visa, Citibank, etc. Today, Melewi is formed by a team of 8 employees spread all across 7 different countries.
In this episode we talked to Melissa about, her decision to go remote, psychology & isolation, hiring for culture, preferred toolset, lessons learned, and advice for founders.
Show highlights? Melissa has built a remote team that shares similar values. It is so much easier...
2018-08-2746 minRemote WorkHow To Hire Real Talent For Your Remote Team, with Nick Francis.In this episode, we interviewed Nick Francis. He is the co-Founder and CEO of HelpScout. This company makes customer support software for over 8,000 businesses all over the world. They are fully remote and work with a team of 75 people distributed around the world.
In this episode we talked to Nick about, what inspired them to go remote, on-boarding new people, mistakes when hiring, letting go of someone remotely, remote culture, scaling remote companies, tools, and autonomy.
Show highlights? Nick, knew that there were going to be some trade-offs when going remote, but the massive advantage in terms of talents was...
2018-08-2045 minRemote WorkHow To Build A Positive Culture with Dylan Schiemann.In this episode, we interviewed Dylan Schiemann, known Dojo, Comet and SitePen. SitePen is a fully remote company with +40 employees working mostly in US and UK. Dylan decided to go 100% remote in 2007. The team had good engineers located around the world and wanted to hire new ones that didn’t want to relocate. They saw the benefits of remote work and joined in.
In this episode, we talked to Dylan about, the benefits of going fully remote, creating great culture remote work/life balance, how SitePen deals with communication, technology tools, and the challenges that they face every time.
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2018-08-1333 minRemote WorkHow To Transition To A Fully Distributed Company From A Collocated Company, with Todd NienkerkIn this episode, we interviewed Todd Nienkerk. He is a digital strategist and open-source advocate. He is the CEO and Co-Founder of @FourKitchens. Four Kitchens develops apps and websites for organizations with a lot of content. Four Kitchens is a fully remote company with 38 team members distributed across the globe.
In this episode we talked to Todd about, transitioning from a co-located to hybrid, to fully remote. We also discussed about the benefits of remote work, relocating “remote work” resources, maintaining culture, communication, in-person retreat and collaboration, team building, lack of laws and resources for remote work.
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2018-07-3152 minRemote WorkWhy Building A SaaS Product Remotely With Mark FaggianoIn this episode, we interviewed Mark Faggiano. He is the CEO of Taxjar, the automated sales, tax reporting and filing software-as-a-service. Taxjar automates the tax process and handles everything for you. Taxjar managed to create a system that does all that with a 100% remote company and remote workers. As of today, Taxjar has 32 employees and will probably have more over the next six months.
In this episode we talked to Mark about, what is TaxJar, the benefits of building a SaaS product remotely, hiring better applicants, how to boost your remote team’s productivity, and the challenges of running a re...
2018-07-3129 minRemote WorkBegin With Trust with Ryan CarsonIn 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...
2018-07-3121 min
Nerdic TalkingNT090 - That's why they call it beta!
Fast hätte die macOS Beta auf Thorstens iMac uns einen Strich durch die Rechnung gemacht. Aber zum Glück war das nächste MacBook nicht weit und es konnte wie geplant weiter gehen.
Wir sprechen über Podlive.io, eine neue tolle App für iOS und macOS um keinen Livestream unserer Lieblingspodcasts mehr zu verpassen. Leider haben wir es noch nicht hinbekommen dort auch aufzutauchen, aber zur nächsten Folge könnt ihr dank Sebastian sicher sein uns dort ebenfalls zu hören!
Apropos hören… Michaels MacBook macht leider immer noch Geräusche. Vielleicht wa...
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