Since Friendly came into existence, joint retreats have been an integral part of our team culture. As a self-funded startup, we watch our budget, so our third team retreat took us to Joey in Budapest in early August 2023.
We are moving into safe waters. Although we recorded another loss after three “profitable” months in a row – our software revenue and customer numbers are growing steadily. Welcome to our Open Startup Report for July 2023.
The new Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (nFADP) will come into force on September 1, 2023. In this blog post, we’ll show you how you can implement the most important measures in your company now.
Things are going well at Friendly. For the first time in our three-year history, we recorded three consecutive months of “profit” and set another revenue record. Welcome to our Open Startup Report for June 2023.
This has never happened before in Friendly’s three-year history. For the first time, we were in the black figures for two months in a row and also achieved record revenue. Welcome to our Open Startup Report for May 2023.
We are celebrating the third “profitable” month in our history and the highest monthly profit. Welcome to our Open Startup Report for April 2023. ContentsApril at Friendly in…
So far, we have had a new record in every month of 2023. March is no exception with two records. Welcome to our Open Startup Report for March…
Our software revenue is at a record level, costs have fallen, but unfortunately so has consulting revenue: Welcome to our Open Startup Report for February 2023. ContentsFebruary at…
We set new records for both income and expenses, resulting in only a small loss: Welcome to our Open Startup Report for January 2023. ContentsJanuary at Friendly in…
We are celebrating the second “profitable” month in our history: Welcome to our Open Startup Report for December 2022. ContentsDecember at Friendly in NumbersThe second “profitable” month December…
Our team gave up part of their salary, we received a lot of support and our loss fell by -48%: Welcome to our Open Startup Report for November…
As you may already know, we don’t want investors. We go the way of “bootstrapping”, i.e. growing by our own efforts. Instead of getting bigger, we prefer to get better.
Our recurring revenue fell by -5%, our loss increased massively and we launched new offers: Welcome to our Open Startup Report for October 2022. ContentsOctober at Friendly in…
Our recurring revenue increased by +2%, our loss fell massively by -70% and we revised our manifesto: Welcome to our Open Startup Report for September 2022. ContentsSeptember at…
Our recurring revenue grew to CHF 13’662, our loss increased significantly and we renounced external investors: welcome to our Open Startup Report for August 2022.
Our monthly recurring revenue surpassed $14k for the first time and Friendly Analytics tracked more than one million pageviews: welcome to our Open Startup Report for July 2022.
We get asked time and again why we don’t want investors at Friendly as a tech startup. It’s not that we haven’t received any offers yet. But we have turned them all down and will continue to do so in the future. For good reasons.
We are nearing profitability again, our revenue rose above CHF 13’000 for the first time and Friendly Automate gets an important update: welcome to our Open Startup Report…
More revenue and less loss, a look back at our second retreat and a nomination for Switzerland’s most important startup award: welcome to our Open Startup Report for…
A cloudy Saturday morning in Lucerne, Switzerland set the scene for our second Friendly Team Retreat. At Friendly, we work completely location-independently and otherwise only meet in our…
