1. How large do you think a start-up needs to be to effectively take advantage of collaborative management programs? Along with full- and part-time employees, should companies include interns, freelancers, and virtual assistants on projects that use collaborative management programs? Why or why not?

2. If you set out to select a collaborative management program for a business you were building, how would you go about selecting the program that would work the best for your business?

3. Imagine you’ve started a home remodeling business. Discuss the advantages to using a collaborative management program such as Buildertrend from the outset for your business.

4. The “Opening Profile” focused on Wild Friends Foods, a start-up that is making products based on nut and seed butter. Discuss how Wild Friends Foods could benefit from using a collaborative software program like Smart sheet.