The Future Is Bright
Why “Niteo”?
Niteo is a Latin word meaning "to shine", "to thrive". We are tech futurists. We believe information technologies, or software if you want, will change the World for the better. Saying "those were the good old days" or "they used to live better in the past" is not something we do.
Looking back, the human condition has improved several-fold, especially in the last few decades and it is due to increased information flow. The purpose of Niteo is to help improve lives, using information and software as the main driving force.
The plan
Driving significant change for the better is a Hard Task™. We have tried that almost entirely off the bat when founding the company back in 2007. Without a tightly knit and highly skilled team and without any financial backing, we tried to make browsing the Internet a safer endeavor, effectively to kill off phishing attacks. We burnt out.
Then came the realization: what we need first are good foundations. A great core team with financial backing. We set out to build a number of SaaS projects that could provide us with enough funds to attack the next Hard Task™. We’re nearly there. We’ve nearly reached our vision of building Niteo into a place where technologists solve hard problems, for the benefit of us all.
Our mission is clear: help small businesses run better, simpler, easier and more profitable with our Software as a Service projects. In the meantime work on our long-term mission: find big problems that could be rendered a thing of the past by software.
Our values
Openness
A bright future is one where information is free, not one where control is enforced through a lack of or limited information. We lead by example by publicly disclosing our documents such as our Handbook, by publishing our code under Open Source licenses, and by giving everyone at Niteo full access to all of our inner workings.
Fairness
A bright future is one where people are treated fairly and equally. A future where single entities control large portions of wealth and power is not a future we would like to see. We lead by example and work hard to make sure that everyone involved with Niteo is treated fairly.
Curiosity
A bright future is one where we can be curious. Where we are allowed to fail, so that we can learn from our mistakes. Where we don’t have to blindly believe assumptions but we have the time and energy to test them from first principles upwards. Where we read, ask, and learn every single day.
Results
A small company does not survive if it's not results-oriented. We measure so we can manage. Everyone on the team knows their goals and strives to achieve them.
Agility
In order to survive Niteo needed to radically change many times in our short history. To thrive we need to continue that practice and be willing to challenge the status quo. We are not afraid of major changes in the company, projects or marketplace, we welcome them.
