Holiday season is about to begin and most of companies also end their fiscal year. Whilst Onrego’s first fiscal year doesn’t end until July 2013 I think it’s time to put together what we have accomplished so far.

Onrego Ltd has been alive and operational for five months. When most companies end their fiscal year in couple of weeks, Onrego still continues its first fiscal year until July 2013. Why is that? Well, there are three reasons. First, Onrego Ltd was established in July and begun operational in August, so it kind of automatically made our fiscal year to be from August to July. Second, we wanted to have the same fiscal year period as Microsoft has. That makes us to live in heartbeat synchronization. And third, I see no sense why December should be last month of fiscal year. June or July is more logical since you’d do your homerun towards summer vacation and you’d start with a clean desk after the vacation.

While our fiscal doesn’t in this month, let me do a brief summary of the start of Onrego’s journey. As I wrote in my previous post, we have had over 150 meetings with clients and partners. I’d say that is quite a lot for our size of company. I have personally been involved in most of them and that for example has given me very valuable feedback from our customers and also given me lots of customer understanding to be used as a fuel for upcoming Onrego cloud services.

Although we have only been operating for five months by now, we have still being able to generate a 6 figure turnover in euro at the end of December 2012. When we started we planned a budget. Planning a budget for company that has not yet started can be rather difficult because we had no historical data to compare and back then we didn’t have any products or services to sale. But we made a budget and I can tell you that our sales is actually following the budget very closely. That is a very good accomplishment for our team!

I also wrote in my “The Onrego Working Methods” post in September 2012 that we have milestones that 1) guide us but also 2) rewards us. We have 34 milestones set for our fiscal year 2013 (starting from July 2012 and ends July 2013 = 13 months) and so far we have achieved 12 of them! I’d say that is also a great work!

Here is nice dashboard of what we have accomplished so far:

We are having great discussion with great customers and I’m looking forward to start working with them in 2013! But now it’s time for the Onrego Boys to take a short break and spend some time with their
families and so we wish Merry Christmas and happy holidays for all of you!