Euro Top Tech - #33 (Q2 Recap + Q3 starting with highest revenue month ever)
Quarterly update.
After Q1, I did a Q1 Recap, sharing wins and losses of the first 3 months of 2026, benchmarking also with my overall 2026 goals, set at the end of last year.
Tl;dr:
It did a nice +18.9% YoY growth compared to Q1 2025
But, it did only +6% compared to my quarterly avg of 2025, while my goal in 2026 is to make 20% more than in 2025; so it's ~14 points off below target, not 6 as I originally wrote in last quarter’s recap (I’ve now updated the article, correcting the math)
What about Q2
Only +1.3% compared to Q2 2025
But Q2 2025 had been my best quarter last year, so the flat YoY is less bad than it looks
Against my 2025 quarterly avg, Q2 did +12%; better than Q1’s +6%, but still short of the +20% 2026 target
This leaves H1 2026 about 9% behind where it needs to be for the yearly goal
Now, I don’t take this +20% goal all that seriously, if I’m being frank.
I mostly just keep it as a small benchmark to have fun around, and a little push to make sure I do well enough.
Work wise, it’s been a good quarter
First half still kept my content / product / coaching / research split, typical of my last year.
Then after around April I started dropping all the research around relocation that has taken me literally an infinite amount of time since starting this business.
You can see some of the outcomes here:
This really exhausted pretty much all I could research around this topic.
You might have seen many attempts I’ve had at leaving Switzerland (“why still live in the most expensive country in the world if I’m earning remotely”), then I went on to create AI tools to see if it was foolish or reasonable to stay or leave.
On one hand: this was a lot of wasted time.
On the other hand: it has made me a sort of expert on these remote life setups (also useful and connected to helping remote tech workers in Europe), and cleared my mind about what’s out there.
At some point during Q2, I finished my research on the topic, with these conclusions/countries:
Switzerland gonna stay my base for the foreseeable future, since right now I don’t have kids and I can balance out its costs with a trifecta setup, and enjoy the benefits as well as quite and nature-full months there, while alternating with different vibes when I’m abroad
Later on, depending on income and business scale, I’ll assess
Other countries I have found that would be good options if I’ll want something with different vibes and lower costs are Cyprus and Croatia - great in their own versions (and with their own pitfalls, same as Switzerland and any other country, in the end); Poland, Czechia and Estonia could potentially also be some options, but even less likely as of now
This freed up a lot of time, which I channelled into core business activities.
Which allowed to be shipping much more.
End of Q2 and start of Q3 have been high shipping months.
On all fronts: coaching, EuroTopTech, content.
This wasn’t reflected in Q2 yet, but
Q3 started with my biggest month ever
In fact, first time hitting $10k a month 🎉 🥳
And month is not even over yet! 😁 Would be cool to end at 10k+ eur 🤞
Next month is also looking promising, so there’s a good chance that Q3 could be a good quarter, and a sort of payoff quarter after 2+ years of building this business (my first business, after my career working in tech as a software engineer).
Only time will tell.
I’ll just keep building, happy about my day to day life feeling more tranquil, energising and rewarding than ever, which for me is the real win, rather than this or that revenue milestone.
It’s also amazing to see the impact of my work, with a growing number of customers (of both coaching and platform) landing new top roles and changing their life thanks to that.
Feels like compounding of all the work done so far.
Since 10k a month is a bit of a milestone in the online business community, I’ve dropped a little reflection post on X about it, feel free to read it in full here.
Here’s a preview:
And, on a less serious note, on my ig you can see some ways I enjoyed my free time in the past quarter 😊 In short: Swiss nature, lots of cooking with my gf (we’re 100% foodie), some little trips to France, a vacation in Italy, and a bit of Warsaw city life.
Lots of focus on work, but also some resting and life enjoyment :)
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Have a great Sunday!
Nic
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