How to Create Awesome Company Meetings & Retreats
Whether your startup’s next company meeting is offsite or virtual, make it unforgettable — even your investors will love it!
Startup company offsites or retreats are often misunderstood. They’re mistaken as nothing more than an excuse for nerds to use venture capital money to fly somewhere exotic and drink Aperol spritzers by the pool.
I mean, it’s not like that’s never happened.
Like in October 2015 when young UK music tech startup, Crowdmix, flew their twenty staff to Amsterdam. A claim to “grow Crowdmix’s presence in the dance music community” resulted in a party where they hired in half-a-dozen top DJs and dance acts. The bill was reported to be as much as £200,000. It’s probably worth pointing out that the company’s app hadn’t even launched at this point.
Crowdmix went bust nine months later — placed into voluntary administration.
Well hey, at least they had an awesome party.
But Crowdmix doesn’t represent every startup. And company retreats definitely serve a purpose beyond dance music, DJs and bounced checks.
“By the third or fourth event, we were drunk with our clear intent instead…
