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How we plan and prioritize our work
Inevitably, all good applicants ask us this question: “so, perks aside, how do you actually plan and prioritize your work at SI?”. First of all, we need to consider our overall goal: “We want to build...
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Pragmatic “user testing” at SI
We’re not religous about user testing, and most of our smaller features only go review by one or two people before getting deployed. But larger features can get a special treatment, and here’s how we...
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Company Update Q3 2014
Q3 ended a while ago, but somehow November was crazy with sick leave, so here’s a belated summary of what we’ve done in Q3: Financials Our revenues continue to point upwards, and Q3 was our best...
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Company Update Q4/2014 and 2015 outlook
Another amazing quarter has ended, and so has a very successful 2014. We hosted our distributed company-all hands meeting to revisit the past quarter and to also discuss upcoming challenges and roadmap...
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Unexpected UX session with the customer success team
Being a distributed team we can never communicate “too much”, so we’re making it a habit to always share news and recurring things like meeting minutes on our intranet. But the best thing is when...
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Our new office has doors.
We’ve loved our old office because it was very pretty, and its open layout allowed us to grow from 3 staff to 11 while being very flexible with our desks. We’ve hosted our international team members...
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Office warming party on Thursday 23rd!
We moved into our new office over a month ago, so it’s basically 5 past 12 for our office warming party: We’re inviting colleagues, clients and friends to celebrate springtime and our new office too!...
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Company Update Q1 2015: New office, 500 customers, $800k revenue
Time flies, and it’s spring already! We’ve completed an outstanding Q1, we’ve moved office, and we’re celebrating our office warming party Thursday next week! But let’s see in slightly more detail....
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Boom! Five new developers on one day.
The hiring drought in our Berlin HQ is over! Our development team just grew from 8 to 13 developers, and we’ve been able to find a perfect mix too: We’re joined by two Java developers (Alison and...
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Company Update Q2 2015: Revenue dip, great NPS results, and the road ahead
We held our quarterly company update on Thursday, and here’s the high level overview. We hired 6 full-time people into the Berlin office in the past quarter, and we’re looking to hire 5 more people...
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Company Update Q4 2015
We completed 2015 with quite the end-of-year rally! While our mid-year results looked pretty dull, Q4 really met expectations and helped us close the year with a 70% revenue increase compared to 2014....
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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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