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The Power of “In Person” – Why Distributed Teams are Less Effective

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In the era of Skype, web conferencing tools and collaboration software conventional wisdom says that distributed startup teams can be just as effective as those that are in person. Or more precisely the people espousing the benefits of distributed startups teams are often distributed and therefore self rationalizing it.

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Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder

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Tiny, contracting market. Yammer is an awesome tool for fostering camaraderie on distributed teams. Hiren Co-Founder and CTO @ Point10Solutions.com [link] Hiren Panchasara Thanks for the post ! Hiren Co-Founder and CTO @ Point10Solutions.com [link] Paul Nelligan Really amazingly good post. Customers are technophobes.

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