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Meet our two new subteams

As our company grows and evolves, so do our best practices. In this episode: Team Delineation. Early days’ bliss Until very recently, all our customer-facing staff were assembled in one team of 5. I...

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Distributed work is hard. Company retreats to the rescue!

Working with distributed teams is hard. A key ingredient to helping teams gel is the good old company trip. Here’s how we do it. TLDR: Meaningful work plus some fun – not the other way around. It’s...

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Company update November 2016

It’s been too long! I used to be pretty good at diligently posting our financial updates every quarter. But ever since we’ve moved to a monthly all-hands meeting cadence, I’ve really struggled to keep...

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Mission 28 (we’re hiring)

We didn’t hire enough new team members in 2016: We brought on board 4 new people, but 4 people left us, so in total we’re still hovering at 20. True, even with 20 dedicated people one can have a...

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Quarterly update: Crossing the $1m per quarter line, 25 employees, $10m in...

I’m very proud to announce that our first quarter 2017 has been amazing! Our Q1 revenues jumped to $1.2m (24% better than last year), and just in time for our 6th company birthday we crossed the $10m...

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Update Q2 2017: Events, launches, and room for improvement

After a great start into the new year in Q1 with over 25% growth compared to Q1 2016, our revenues went back to very average in Q2. At $900k revenues it’s still an increase of 18% compared to 2016 –...

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How our bonuses work

After paying bonuses for almost 5 years now, I recently realized I had never written things down internally. So I did that in our intranet the other day, but since I keep explaining the system to...

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Company Trip to Toronto and Montreal, and lessons learned

It was time for something new! Previous trips had led us to San Francisco both in 2015 and 2016, and to New York and Boulder in 2013 and 2014. Sure, the US is our largest market, but a bit of diversity...

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Mission 28 complete!

We finally did it! After a lot of advertising, screening and interviewing, we finally managed to sign and onboard our 27th and 28th employees in the beginning of November. Magda joined us as our first...

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Let’s do some good – Our donations in 2017

Grey November months are when we take stock, look at what we’ve achieved in the year (a lot!), how much we earned (plenty), and how we also can give back a bit. So like in previous years, we decided to...

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