Abstract
Many companies, including startup companies, are transitioning or pondering about the transition to remote work. However, with the various benefits of remote work also come specific challenges. These challenges tend to be exacerbated in the startup context. The existing body of knowledge on remote work neglects the specifics of the startup context. Similarly, the research on startups does not provide knowledge on their challenges in the remote work setting. Even though online support for startups does exist, it is not clear how the support tools should be designed to purposefully address the specifics of startup remote work. In this article, we introduce a research project that aims at obtaining a comprehensive understanding of the challenges and characteristics of startup remote work, and building a digital space, which we call Startup Digi-dojo, that can support startup remote work as well as research on remote startups. Startup Digi-dojo will offer a unique opportunity to build a novel kind of collaboration and synergy between startups and researchers. We will develop Startup Digi-dojo using the Design Science Research approach. Since the project is in its inception phase, we present the research design and initial architecture of the system in this article in order to get early feedback from the scientific audience.