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2015 Balsamiq retreat in the Loire Valley
Since we are a remote, distributed team (9 from Italy, 5 from California, 1 from France, 1 from Germany, 1 from Netherlands, so far - and more are coming!),...
By Francesca
Professional development at Balsamiq
This post is part of a series about our VERY FEW company policies. Read this intro post for some context. We have become hesitant about sharing our company policies...
By Francesca
Looking back at 2014
Hello again friends of Balsamiq! Peldi here with our traditional "state of the union" end-of-year report. You can find previous editions here: 2008, 2009 and 2013. As usual, this...
By Peldi
Francesca Fabbri joins Balsamiq!
Hello friends of Balsamiq! I'm Francesca, the seventeenth member of the Balsamiq family. What can we expect from you? My primary role at Balsamiq is to be the Community...
By Francesca
2014 retreat: Learning from and about
Ride pride Friends, I can't believe it's October. Before summer becomes a distant memory, I want to tell some stories from this year's Retreat. If you've been following our...
By Val
Looking back at 2013
Hello friends of Balsamiq! As 2013 comes to an end, it's time to revive an old tradition (2008, 2009) and look back at all that we have achieved this...
By Peldi
Happy 5th birthday, dear Balsamiq!
With the SuperMoon shining upon us, the friends who make up Balsamiq met in San Francisco to celebrate our company's 5th birthday. Our team is scattered around Europe and...
By Peldi
Salvatore Cammarata joins Balsamiq!
Hello friends of Balsamiq! Our little team is growing again! This time I'd like you to join me in welcoming my good friend and old college buddy Salvatore 'Sax'...
By Peldi
Andrea Serra joins Balsamiq!
Hello friends of Balsamiq! It is my great pleasure to introduce to you Andrea Serra, the latest member of the Balsamiq family. Andrea is a client-side developer who will...
By Peldi
Meet Michele and Ben!
Hello friends of Balsamiq! Another week, another piece of good news. No, two! 🙂 We hired a new team member to speed up our software development, and we partnered...
By Peldi
Balsamiq partners with Aramis B.V.
Hello friends of Balsamiq! It is with great pleasure that I can announce today that Balsamiq has entered a long-term partnership with Aramis B.V., a Dutch software development company...
By Peldi
Anna Mariotti joins Balsamiq!
It is my great pleasure to introduce to you Anna Mariotti, the latest addition to the Balsamiq family. Anna's main job is to ensure that our growing Italian company...
By Peldi
2012 Balsamiq company retreat
My suitcases are not yet unpacked because I have Balsamiq Jetlag Syndrome (BJS). Luis defines that as "A complication of ordinary jetlag, where the subject is kept awake by...
By Peldi
A myBalsamiq morning to forget: an apology
Hello friends. For the second time in the history of Balsamiq, I write you today to apologize for our mistakes. This morning we started what was supposed to be...
By Peldi
Florian Brauer joins Balsamiq
Hello friends of Balsamiq! It is my great pleasure to introduce to you the newest member of the Balsamiq family: Florian Brauer! We first met Florian in July last...
By Peldi
Our Donation Policy
Giving back to our communities is a big part of our culture, from day one. We started with giving away our software, but in 2011 we decided to do...
By Natalie
Devising a profit sharing program for micro-multinationals
Since we have no plan on ever selling the company or going public, employee stock option programs never made sense to us. Instead, we set up a quarterly profit...
By Peldi
Our simple salary policy
This post is part of a series about our VERY FEW company policies. Read this intro post for some context. Given that we have different people all around the...
By Peldi
Pace, not deadlines
This post is part of a series about our VERY FEW company policies. Read this intro post for some context. At Balsamiq, we don't have deadlines. Ever. It seems...
By Peldi
On the need of VERY FEW company policies
I'm not a fan of policies. In fact, the tiny little essay on how policies are bad from Rework is my favorite of the whole book. It's called "Don’t...
By Peldi
Company retreat powers Balsamiq quality boost
Would you trust your software to these people? You bet What is it like when a small, dynamic, distributed software company gets together for a week-long sleepover at the...
By Anna
From our retreat: A team that cooks together stays together
One of the hardest things about working with my beloved distributed team (aka balsamici*) is our not being able to see each other in person more often. Just once...
By Peldi
Joy McCrea joins Balsamiq
Hello everyone! I know it's been a while since our last blog post, my apologies. We've been crazy busy with lots and lots of new customers and working on...
By Peldi
Paolo Ottanà joins Balsamiq
It is my great pleasure to introduce to you Paolo Ottanà, the newest member of team Balsamiq. Paolo will be working out of our Bologna office, helping us with...
By Peldi
An update from Balsamiq-land!
Hello friends, long time no see! So sorry for not keeping you in the loop more about what's going on in Balsamiq-land. Although it might seem like we're not...
By Peldi
Our first company retreat
I'm on a boat! Being a Balsamiq employee for just over two weeks, I wasn’t sure my perspective of the staff retreat would be of much value. After all,...
By Natalie
Michael Angeles joins Balsamiq
I can barely contain my excitement as I type this, so I'll get right to it: Michael Angeles, the man behind Konigi and one of the people I look...
By Peldi
Balsamiq roadmap for 2010
This is part two of a two-part post about what happened in 2009 and our plans for 2010. We did this last year as well, it's becoming somewhat of...
By Peldi
A look back at 2009
Wow. Just wow. It's hard for me to believe how much has happened in Balsamiq-land in 2009. I feel like a completely different person than when I wrote the...
By Peldi
An apology
Hi friends. So I made a big mistake today. No, I made a few. I was so excited about the new pan feature that I decided to release it...
By Peldi
Atlassian Summit trip report
Last week we participated in the Atlassian Summit, Atlassian's first worldwide conference and Balsamiq's first foray in being a conference sponsor. Below is an account on what happened and...
By Peldi
Introducing Marco Botton, Balsamiq's first employee
Feeling a great mixture of excitement, pride and trepidation, it is my pleasure to introduce to you Marco Botton, Balsamiq's first full time employee. How did this happen? A...
By Peldi
2000 customers
Hi there, just a quick post to record the fact that today marked the 2000th customer of Balsamiq Mockups. That's 2000 monetary transactions, the number of Mockups users could...
By Peldi
Balsamiq roadmap for 2009
This is part two of a two-part post about what happened in 2008 and my plans for 2009. So 2008 was great, no, it was beyond great. I quit...
By Peldi
A look back at 2008
This is part one of a two-part post about what happened in 2008 and my plans for 2009. First, a few numbers about 2008: days in business: 196 -...
By Peldi
Hit $100,000 in revenue, time to start looking up
I feel a bit sheepish posting this since I don't want to come across as bragging, but a promise is a promise, so here it goes... I just recently...
By Peldi
Personal: what’s your story? Why start Balsamiq?
The following is a story that I told many people already, but didn't think was interesting enough to put on my blog until a certain Tamales Princess I know...
By Peldi
500 customers!
I just sold a license to my 500th customer! That's a much bigger number that I expected to reach in such a short time (it's been less than 3...
By Peldi
$10,000 in revenue in the first 6 weeks
The huge amount of attention that my "Profitable, in 3 weeks!" post has received so far tells me that there's a thirst for financial results of small bootstrapped startups...
By Peldi
Profitable, in 3 weeks!
Sorry for tooting my own horn here but I think my current and potential customers will be happy to hear that business is going well, so here it goes....
By Peldi
Balsamiq: week one recap
Hi everyone. It's been now a full week since my official launch, and my what a ride it has been! I know the adventure is just getting started, but...
By Peldi
Launch: Balsamiq is open for business!
What's happening: Balsamiq Studios LLC is launching today. What it means to you: Balsamiq Mockups 1.0 is now officially for sale, both as a Confluence plugin and as a...
By Peldi