Small steps, great transparency: Open Startup Year in Review 2024
In Friendly’s fifth year, we tripled our profit and in small steps almost reached profitability. Welcome to our Open Startup Annual Review 2024.
In Friendly’s fifth year, we tripled our profit and in small steps almost reached profitability. Welcome to our Open Startup Annual Review 2024.
Once again, our costs have skyrocketed – but this time we can cover them. Welcome to our Open Startup Report for December 2024.
Our CTO Joey Keller has taken on the important role of Product Team Lead at Mautic, the open source project behind Friendly Automate, from November 2024.
In this podcast, Stefan speaks honestly: He talks about how he founded and built Friendly and how he came to run his company as an open startup.
A month to celebrate: record revenue, record profit, record margin. Welcome to our Open Startup Report for November 2024.
Our revenue is now high enough that we can give more to others. Welcome to our Open Startup Report for October 2024.
As early as 2020, we made a promise to donate 1% of our revenue. Now we can finally fulfill it in full.
We have been waiting a long time for this milestone, and now the time has come: our monthly software revenue exceeds CHF 20 000. Welcome to our Open Startup Report for September 2024.
We are featured in the latest episode of the HR Briefing podcast from Personio – and host Susanne Schlossbauer says she “honestly doesn’t care” about our published employment contracts.
This year, in August, we already managed to exceed the entire annual profit of 2023 – despite an increase in working percentages: Welcome to our Open Startup Report for August 2024.
The summer slump is here. While our revenue has been falling for the third month in a row, we are experiencing an unexpected success: Welcome to our Open Startup Report for July 2024.
Our Kathrin Schmid and Lukas Sigel are increasing their full-time equivalents at Friendly from 40% to 50% in August. I took this as an opportunity to share their new employment contracts on LinkedIn.
At Friendly we work remotely. That’s why we value our annual retreats, where we can meet in person and exchange ideas, have a good time together and get to know each other better.
While things are generally looking good for us, our most important KPI has fallen this month: Welcome to our Open Startup Report for June 2024.
We experience a dip and just end the month with a minimal profit: Welcome to our Open Startup Report for May 2024.
We have reason to celebrate on both the revenue and the cost side: our total revenue exceeds the CHF 30 000 mark and Stefan can pay himself a salary for the first time. Welcome to our Open Startup Report for April 2024.
As a Swiss company in a sensitive industry, Branchen Versicherung is interested in keeping its data in Switzerland. This also applies to the implementation of its marketing activities.
We recently successfully gained certification for the internationally recognized ISO standards 27 001 and 9 001. But how did we manage this as a young start-up? And what does it cost?
Things have been moving forward since we expanded our consulting services: this month was even better than the last. Welcome to our Open Startup Report for March 2024.
Pierre Fabre is a leading French pharmaceutical company. The implementation of Friendly Automate has taken Pierre Fabre a decisive step forward in its digital transformation.