People-Driven Culture - Pete Baumgartner - Agencies That Build #011

Pete Baumgartner is the Founder of Lincoln Loop, a full-service software development agency specializing in Python and Django development for web and mobile systems. They value transparent partnerships in order to produce straightforward solutions.

 

Takeaways:

Advertising yourself as a niche agency starting off is a great strategy to get your foot in the door and be successful as a new agency. Find out what you want to be known for early on.
Being a remote agency, it is important to have trust and autonomy with your team. This flexibility helps staff have a better work life balance and figure out their role.
Having a full financial transparency within the agency empowers co-workers to clearly visualize how they are affecting the bottom line.
Developing virtual team culture can be difficult. Start by meeting with your team in person at conferences and grow from there.
Pete Baumgartner’s superpower - Flexibility “We are all trying to wear a bunch of different hats. Things are going to drop and that’s okay.”

 

Links:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pbaumgartner/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ipmb
Lincoln Loop: https://lincolnloop.com
High Performance Django: https://highperformancedjango.com

 

Busted Myth:

“You don’t need a deep connection of people or be plugged into a network to start an agency. If you are doing good work and put yourself out there, then it will grow organically.” ~Pete

 

Ways to Tune In:

iTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/agencies-that-build/id1533003876
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/04KrB9JKLJ7lxoBZQQpSSH?si=zljWTjmwSK-ht50WPpesOg
Stitcher - https://www.stitcher.com/show/agencies-that-build
Google Play - https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYWdlbmNpZXN0aGF0YnVpbGQuY29tL2ZlZWQueG1s
YouTube - Full video - https://youtu.be/SXTBbCVWr2U