Trello is a highly flexible tool that can almost eliminate the need for email within your startup.

If you're part of a remote team, a tool like this would be indispensable.

It can provide a high degree of clarity as to what the status of any task or process is within your organization. This eliminates uncertainty & increases efficiency dramatically.

Whether it's managing to-do's, meetings, leveraging group knowledge or even managing the entire development progress, Trello can centralize all of your workflows to provide a high degree of clarity as to the exact state of affairs with your team.

This talk would expand on ideas I've presented at the Office Optional conference in San Francisco as to how my team uses Trello: http://officeoptional.co/program/#trello

As part of the session, I would also make available templates of all Trello boards for attendees to copy and re-purpose as needed. Additionally, I'd make available all resources that we've currently shortlisted within our knowledgebase board for topics that would of interest to any startup (e.g., For email marketing, web analytics, business metrics etc).