Got a new employee orientation coming up? I put together 10 of my favorite ideas that I like to include in my own orientations. Not only will these ideas make your orientation look polished and professional, but your entire team will genuinely enjoy them. And your new employees will feel welcomed to the team. 1.… (more) 10 Motivating New Employee Orientation Ideas that Everyone Will Enjoy
When Bret Taylor and Kevin Gibbs founded collaborative document-editing platform Quip in 2013, they didn’t just want to build a better word processor. They wanted to redefine the entire concept of online documents and how people worked together. Quip has grown rapidly since being founded six years ago. Quip is a strong product with a… (more) Quip: The Social Word Processor the World Didn’t Even Know It Needed
G Suite provides a ton of benefits on its own. That’s probably why upward of 3 million businesses are using it. Yet, its third-party apps marketplace can help fill the gaps, give you more functionality that you didn’t even know you needed, and even replace some of the functions of Google’s core apps with something… (more) The 5 Best G Suite Marketplace Apps in 2020
I’m always a bit nervous when a new employee joins my team. I know the employee’s nervous too. New faces, new projects, a new company. It’s a lot to take in. When the new hire orientation is done right, it gets new hires through the jittery nerves, grounds them, and helps build momentum through the… (more) The New Hire Orientation That Makes Employees Love Working With You
Legendary investor, programmer, and Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham once wrote that one of the best ways to come up with ideas for your next startup is to ask what product you wish someone else would make for you. For Stepan Pachikov, founder of Evernote, that product was a way to help him remember things.… (more) Ahead of Its Time, Behind the Curve: Why Evernote Failed to Realize Its Potential
Our company has been growing and we realized that someone on our team needed to become our dedicated G Suite admin. Hiten, my co-founder, turned to me and asked, “Why don’t you do it?” What? I’ve never managed G Suite before. What will I be responsible for? I said yes without even realizing what I… (more) The 7 Best Practices of a World-class G Suite Admin
The paradigm shift from desktop to the cloud is arguably the single most important transition we’ve seen in modern computing since we first went online in the ’80s. The past fifteen years in particular have seen an exodus of companies migrating their products from desktop clients to cloud-based services, and Google has been a pioneer… (more) How Google Moved Beyond Search to Reinvent Productivity with G Suite
I’m going to break down G Suite Pricing in complete detail. By the end of the post, you’ll know if it’s the right choice for your business. I’ve also found two sneaky ways to get a discount on G Suite. We’ll get into that further down. First, let’s figure out which G Suite plan is… (more) The Complete Guide to G Suite Pricing
G Suite gives your business two things: Gmail accounts for everyone at your company A suite of office software for your company You’ll get these tools with G Suite: Gmail – email Google Calendar – calendar tool Google Docs – cloud word documents Google Sheets – cloud spreadsheets Google Slides – cloud presentations Google Drive… (more) What is G Suite and Why is Everyone Using It?
Contrary to conventional wisdom, the most exciting software products aim to solve the most mundane problems—problems that millions of people wrestle with every single day. These products might not be as interesting as the latest machine-learning startup, but they’re the products that solve difficult problems and make people’s lives better. Airtable is a case in… (more) How Airtable Became a Unicorn by Reinventing the Spreadsheet
