Making Long-Distance Business Partnerships Work

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/24/business/smallbusiness/24sbiz.html?_r=3&ref=smallbusiness&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

by dcurtis • 18 years ago

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inovica• 18 years ago

It has worked well for me. 8 years ago I met a Russian guy in a forum and we've created several products together and been reasonably (though not stratospheric) successful. We only met, for the first time, two years ago. Sometimes it comes down to gut instinct, even thousands of miles away. We couldn't do it without the technology, but it works really well with it.

One interesting point is that we get on better remotely than I ever think we would if we were in each others faces day-in-day-out

ahalvor• 18 years ago

this is an awesome article

jbuswellchar• 18 years ago

we have to do long-distance at my own organization so I found this interesting.

blake• 18 years ago

Ben - congrats on the NYTimes coverage!

After seeing your iChat video + Trac setup working at your co-working space, I went looking for a collaboration setup for our remote team (Trac just never did it for me.)

We've settled on Google wiki + Lighthouse integrated with GitHub. We're also testing Campfire for "watercooler" team chat (when IM isn't necessary)

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Making Long-Distance Business Partnerships Work

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