Author: frogtales.blog

Everyone company (at least its management) wants their team members to work together well. By getting to know each other, learning about strengths, weaknesses, interests and other personal properties, future cooperation will ideally be more productive and have less friction. In one evening, hanging around with friends at our favourite Turkish restaurant, I started to toy with ideas of an activity that we could initiate for above purpose. And everyone's entertainment. Going back into my past I recalled an experience from my military times in 1991: one night, our training unit of rookie soldiers was woken up by our seargants…

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My computer experience started it with the famous Apple II computer. I am still thankful to my father for being so progressive and willing to invest into such a machine at a time where nobody else around us owned a personal computer. And I am still thankful to my uncle for providing the machine to us. With the wisest choice ever: he did not hand over computer games until Christmas. Instead, all the floppy disks we owned for several months had software like VisiCalc, a word processor, and the like on them. No chance to get distracted! My first contact…

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We are Harri Porten and Reginald Stadlbauer. 20 years ago, we founded the software startup froglogic. Unlike most startups today, we bootstrapped the company. This means we never raised money from investors, took any loans or grants. Besides each of us putting a few thousands euros into the company initially, any further growth was driven by the revenues and profits generated with our products and services. This way, we managed to grow froglogic from just two guys and one idea into a healthy and profitable company with several million euros of annual revenue and ca. 40 employees. While we did…

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