Team Collaboration App

5 Tips For Starting A Successful Team Collaboration App (2025)

Pat Walls

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Updated: April 14th, 2025

Want to start your own team collaboration app? Here are some tips you should know:

Learn more about starting a team collaboration app:

Where to start?

-> How much does it cost to start a team collaboration app?
-> Pros and cons of a team collaboration app

Need inspiration?

-> Other team collaboration app success stories
-> Marketing ideas for a team collaboration app
-> Team collaboration app names

Other resources

-> Profitability of a team collaboration app

We've interviewed thousands of successful founders at Starter Story and asked what advice they would give to entrepreneurs who are just getting started.

Here's the best advice we discovered for starting a team collaboration app:

#1: Michael Hollauf, founder of Meister:

We chatted with with Michael, founder of Meister ($1M/month). In our interview, Michael says:

Focus on what makes you great: the ambition and discipline you needed just to start your own business put you ahead of 98% of the population of this planet from the start.

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#2: Michael Hollauf, founder of Meister:

We chatted with with Michael, founder of Meister ($1M/month). In our interview, Michael says:

If your product isn’t sticky, no amount of content marketing will offset your user churn.

Additionally:

Above everything else, focus on usability and simplicity. If the user experience is good, and you're also solving a problem for somebody along the way, you can almost do no wrong.

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#3: Philippe Lehoux, founder of Missive:

We chatted with with Philippe, founder of Missive ($83.3K/month). In our interview, Philippe says:

Being an entrepreneur is not just about what you do but also what you don't.

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#4: Darren Chait, founder of Hugo:

We chatted with with Darren, founder of Hugo ($/month). In our interview, Darren says:

There’s no book out there that serves as a handbook to building a business, but there are many full of great ideas for you to consider, test and either adopt or ignore.