![]() Slack makes it easy for people to quickly send a message and get it off their stack or to-do list. It absolutely can make work more enjoyable and efficient. The HiHello team uses Slack, and it’s excellent for immediacy and getting quick responses. Slack’s mission is to “Make work life simpler, more pleasant and more productive.” I welcome additional suggestions from others on how you’ve dealt with these issues within your organizations.įounded in 2009, Slack is primarily a text and chat-based team communication tool. In this blog post, I’ll describe some of the issues and then provide a few dos and don’ts on how to mitigate these problems. Over the years, I have learned several lessons from using Slack (I’m now using it with multiple teams across multiple K9 portfolio companies). But quickly thereafter, I also started to realize that what is often billed as the “best thing to happen to collaboration since email” has a lot of room for using it in ways that can hurt productivity and result in lots of wasted time. So for many years, I never understood people’s fascination with Slack.īut then, in 2018-when I started HiHello and started building a team, I began to recognize the power of Slack. ![]() As a solo partner (that’s an oxymoron) of a venture fund, I never really needed to collaborate with a large team. I wear two hats: one as the Founder and Chief Firestarter of a technology-focused Pre-Seed stage venture capital fund, K9 Ventures, and the other as the Co-founder and CEO of a startup, HiHello, that is helping to connect people for mutually beneficial business relationships. ![]()
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