Startups For the Rest of Us

Episode 493 | A Roundtable Discussion about COVID-19, Working From Home, Payroll Protection and More

04.21.2020 - By Rob WallingPlay

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This is a round table discussion with Craig Hewitt (founder of Castos), Einar Vollset (cofounder of TinySeed), and myself. We are in three different cities on two different continents, so we have plenty of different perspectives on the COVID-19 crisis. We are talking about our own businesses and the advice we give to other founders. We also talk about the payroll program, and whether we think it's going to be helpful to small businesses and startups. We share our tips and experiences working from home, for founders who may be just now transitioning to a remote team, and we discuss Stewart Butterfield's Twitter feed, talking about the human side of experiencing this pandemic.

Listen to get some insight, hope, and fresh ideas on being a startup during COVID-19.

The finer points of the episode:

8:09 - Advice we all have for startups during the COVID-19 crisis

12:51 - Common mistakes we see businesses make working from home

14:42 - The main things that change when your team goes remote

17:37 - The payroll protection program in the USA and what this could mean for your business

28:04 - Stewart Butterfield's real-time experience of COVID-19 and how it resonated with each of us as founders

36:46 - Some reasons to feel hopeful about business right now

 

Items mentioned in this episode:

RougueStartups

Castos

TinySeed

How Apple Is Working From Home

Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers

MicroConf article on COVID-19 business relief

Stewart Butterfield's Twitter feed

Craig Hewitt's Twitter Account

Einar Vollset's Twitter Account

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