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We hired employee #1 at Teamflow in October 2020 and shipped in January 2021 — going from first line written to shipping in 3 months, with Christmas in the middle.

Teamflow is a virtual office for remote teams. It recreates the casual, unplanned chats and the seamless collaboration that people miss from physical offices. Here's how it works.

Successful team building is about more than just throwing the right group of people together and hoping for the best. Fostering teamwork, group cohesion, and strong team dynamics requires deliberate guidance, effective leadership, and good communication — whether you are building your team virtually or in person.

So, what’s the deal with remote work? Does it make us more productive and more collaborative? Or are we more stressed, less engaged and more likely to quit? We pulled our own numbers on remote meetings to better understand how employees and companies are working — or not — remotely.

COVID-19 has accelerated changes to the workplace that were already in process, and the emerging hybrid work model is a response to that.

The team at SafetyWing wanted a solution that allowed them to strike the right balance between flexible, focused work and time to collaborate and socialize in a way that feels natural and connected — and Teamflow helped them do just that.

Collaboration drives workplace success, and there’s no better way to collaborate than with a whiteboarding session. Here are our tips for remote teams.

We’re thrilled to announce our $35 million Series B investment led by Coatue’s Lucas Swisher, with existing investors Menlo Ventures’ Naomi Ionita and Grace Ge, and Battery Ventures’ Neeraj Agrawal and Brandon Gleklen also participating in the round. This round brings our total amount raised to $50 million in the year since our founding.

This months’ feature releases and updates include Speaker Circles, ability to share and watch videos together on YouTube, and big mobile layout improvements.

This month our team of engineers released several product updates including one of our most requested features: Full screen mode. In addition, we released a Google calendar add-on, opening of apps with QR codes and entering and exiting rooms is now lightning fast!

‍We’re excited to announce Teamflow’s $11M Series A led by Neeraj Agrawal at Battery Ventures. We will use the funds to keep building the future of remote work.

We sat down with Rafael Sanches, the Co-Founder at Anycart, one of the biggest grocery shopping engines in the U.S., to see how his team uses Teamflow as their virtual workspace.

Virtual meetings are here to stay. And regardless of the format — in-person or virtual — making the most out of a meeting is business critical.

A great place to start cultivating a culture that is mindful and respectful of each other’s personal and professional time is by changing the way meetings are planned and run.

Here are five ways remote teams use Teamflow to feel more connected, work more productively, and make remote work much more fun.

While some businesses have made hybrid and remote work permanent, a recent survey by SHRM found that 72% of supervisors prefer their employees to be back in the office. Meanwhile, 55% of employees would like to work remotely at least some of the time. But the divergence across industries and income levels means that remote work is unevenly distributed by geography.

There was a time not too long ago when remote working was reserved for the few. Maybe you had a friend who freelanced, maybe you’d heard a rumour that someone in accounts had discovered a loophole in their contract, maybe you’d done it once when you’d had a bit too much fun the night before. Naming no names.

The lack of a physical office and human interaction can impact people's productivity and happiness at work. Learn how to boost morale at work with these tips.

Remote working has become standard across many companies. Learn the toughest challenges of managing remote teams and how to solve them. Read on.

Remote work has thrown a wrench in company culture. Read our article about how you can build your organization's culture remotely.

Onboarding employees has been a challenge for many organizations that have transitioned to being remote or hybrid. Learn some tips for how to make this process easier. Read on.

The workplace has suffered due to a virtual shift. Learn how to promote a lively company culture with these virtual happy hour ideas.

Virtual gatherings have become more popular due to the pandemic. Read our article about 12 virtual hangout ideas for your next get-together.

With working remotely, all-hands meetings have been transformed. Learn how to plan an all-hands meeting virtually that will make a lasting impression. Read on.

Many situations call for a 1 on 1 meeting with a manager, coworker, or employee. But when some or all of your company works on a remote basis, you need to consider some additional factors. Read on for your guide to remote 1-on-1s.

As companies adapt to the hybrid work model and other models, the question of how to manage virtual teams has become more pressing.

As collaborative online workspaces go, Spatial Chat gets a lot of attention. But it’s only one of many similar tools. Here is a round up of some of the best alternatives for effective online communication.

Choosing the right remote collaboration tools can be complicated. That's why it's important to establish an evaluation process. We've laid out six steps to keep in mind as you shop around.

In this new remote-centric world, co-workers increasingly are separated by hundreds or thousands of miles. The following platforms go a long way toward closing that distance.

We've laid out the top features of virtual collaboration tools to ensure your team is equipped to communicate efficiently while working remotely.

If you work remote or hybrid, you can't escape virtual meetings. But they don't have to be necessary evils thanks to a number of interactive virtual tools that keep teams engaged. Read on to see which ones made the list.

Remote work is here to stay. In this blog, we lay out six guidelines to follow for making remote work as effective as, or even more effective than, in-person work.

With the remote work revolution, internal collaboration is more important than ever. Do you have the right tools in place? Here are some tools to consider for maximum team collaboration.

We all know about Teams, Slack, Zoom, Google Workspace and the like, but what about some of the alternatives for remote team collaboration? Read on for our roundup of some of the best team communication tools to consider.

Sales reps have never been chained to their desks. They’re in the office or at home one day, out in the field the next. But SDRs are a different breed: until the last few years, they generally worked together in close physical proximity, learning from each other’s calls and celebrating each other’s wins while developing qualified leads to push through the pipeline. 

The outbound power hour is every remote SDR manager’s secret weapon. Here’s how to hold one that’s super efficient and highly effective.

There’s a hard fact of sales that most people don’t learn until their first commission check: Quotas are designed to be unattainable. Your best bet for getting 100 percent to quota (and 100 percent of your on-target earnings) — is building “deep pipeline.”

What is a virtual sales floor, you ask? Ok, you didn’t ask, but we’re gonna tell: It’s essentially a physical sales floor gone digital.

When it comes to upping your team's SDR game, these four things are absolutely essential.

Leave a voicemail on the first cold call. It’s that simple.‍ Except it’s not really that simple.‍ Americans get billions of invasive and annoying robocalls each year — an estimated 2,700 every second. That’s an average of 28 robocalls (and texts) per person per month, at least 40 percent of which are scams. 

News of cold calling’s demise has been greatly exaggerated. For SDRs, it’s still an incredibly powerful first step toward building lasting and quota-crushing relationships with prospective leads.

Being an SDR manager comes with lots of challenges and responsibilities. Many of your reps are probably young and inexperienced — maybe even just out of school. They need a ton of guidance. Even the more seasoned ones hit quota snags, get burned out and need coaching about life and work.

As an SDR, your primary job is to have meaningful conversations with prospects that build relationships and ultimately create opportunities.