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New teams are being formed in sight of the real beginning of the course next week and as I bid farewell to my old group I’m excited to join some awesome people in The Adventure Lab. This series has just got better, I promise you, so make sure you don’t miss a post.

Team collaboration has been pivotal to the success of the project and with a lot of remote and distributed teams is worth to take a look at the tooling that made that collaboration possible. Read on to find out about the top 5 collaboration tools used by many teams and some tips and tricks.

The first two weeks of the Venture Lab course centered around team building. This makes sense as people form groups in preparation for the real start next week. The teams were initially formed by random selection and in a lot of cases yielded poor results. But even with a difficult situation at hand you can still turn things around if you keep a few things in mind.

Last year a spur of online courses was announced among which featured the Technology Entrepreneurship course offered by the Stanford University. I jumped on this as soon as I found out about it and started counting the days to launch like a kid counts the days to Christmas. The course got delayed twice, but has finally started almost two weeks ago and the first assignment is in progress. You might know engineers that over the years have [...]