Zoho is free for 15 people, pretty easy to set up, reliable and each mailbox gets 5gb. It does the trick early on.
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#12If you don't want to use big tech, there are smaller providers.
ProtonMail, MailBox, Fastmail, Postale.io, Rambx, mailu, and others
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#13Google or Microsoft. At a prior startup, we only choose Microsoft because of their willingness to sign a BAA (HIPAA). Elsewise, just do Google Workspace. Cost is reasonably for what it costs.
Google does sign BAAs as well, which cover all of the “core” Google Workspace apps.
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#15If the term 'soc2' makes sense within 2-3y, gsuite/ms and move on to more important tasks. Counterproductive area to innovate or penny pinch on.
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#16Don’t skimp on this or your conferencing solution. Google and Zoom absolutely.
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#17Don’t skimp on this or your conferencing solution. Google and Zoom absolutely.
Don’t even need zoom to be honest. I’ve never had trouble with google meet.
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#18AWS workmail or Google workspace are both great.
Workmail has a better management interface for the admin whereas Google has a better user UI (at least for the webapp).
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#19Zoho is free for 15 people, pretty easy to set up, reliable and each mailbox gets 5gb. It does the trick early on.
Even the paid options are very cheap - we have 25 mailboxes and pay less than $1K per year.
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#20I run O365 for the obvious tools and AD but use GSuite for email. SSO for GSuite using AzureAD makes me laugh, plus your employees can use both ‘sign-in with’ Microsoft or Google account for other services and have a single log-in page that ends up just being Microsoft. There’s some tedium with creating accounts on both GSuite and AzureAD, and I’m sure that can be fixed and combined, but who can be bothered when it’s at most 1 employee a week to on-board for early days. Pick your poison, both is an option and works surprisingly well.