What's the WORST thing about being a digital nomad and working with people across boarders?
Feel like I'm a little naive jumping straight in. I'm specifically curious about working in small startup teams. I'm thinking of starting a business with a friend in Argentina and I live in Barcelona - anyone have experience with communication for startup founders in diff countries
Where are your customers? Someone is going to be on the hook for support. Best advice is trying to overlap timezones the best as possible.
I worked with an overseas team for ~1 year. It was great in that we were very focused on the process and proper documentation. The downside is I would have questions and had to wait several hours for them to be answered.
Definitely time zones. One person will have to meet in PM and the other in AM -- can disrupt personal life, depending on which one you are
What I see as a potential problem in usual setup is a time difference. With 4 hours time difference, it is possible that phone is ringing while one is sleeping or after "work hours". Not a hard thing to sort out, but have that in mind and agree on collaboration mode at the beginning.
Thanks Nemanja! Do you have any tips on working around the timezone or any services that could help?
Depends a lot on your setup and work mode. I would say that first steps would be to: