A new team member for Friendly: Open Startup Report March 2025
We are expanding our team for the first time in two years – and salary costs are rising. Welcome to our Open Startup Report for March 2025.
We are expanding our team for the first time in two years – and salary costs are rising. Welcome to our Open Startup Report for March 2025.
Mautic 5 is here – and brings powerful new features for even better marketing automation. It is faster, more stable and, above all, much more user-friendly. In this article, you can find out what has changed in Mautic 5 and who will benefit from the upgrade right now.
Our total revenue generated since Friendly started is CHF 1 019 528. Welcome to our Open Startup Report for February 2025.
Our CCO Lukas Sigel will support Stefan in the management of Friendly as COO from March 1, 2025. We congratulate Luke on this important step!
2024 went so well for us that we’re raising the salaries of the whole team in January. Welcome to our Open Startup Report for January 2025.
In Friendly’s fifth year, we tripled our profit and in small steps almost reached profitability. Welcome to our Open Startup Year in 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.
