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by joelg87 13y ago
Buffer ( http://bufferapp.com ) - Anywhere in the world (we're a distributed team of 11 people across the US, UK, Hong Kong and Sydney). I'd love for you to come join Buffer for the fun ride. We have over 650,000 users and are on a $1.3m+ a
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by joelg87 13y ago
I would guess you've been through it many times or are lucky enough to have a great intuition with this. I've personally not been so lucky. I can say that in my experience reading Four Steps or The Lean Startup and actually doing a startup
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by joelg87 14y ago
Hey Charlie! We've been back and forth on this in the lifetime of the startup, but we're now doing all metrics ourselves, so it is internally built. I built an early version of the cohort analysis (which didn't scale, but that didn't matter
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by joelg87 14y ago
This is neat. It's a key problem we've spent a lot of time thinking about (that posting the same thing in the exact same way to different networks is not the right thing to do). Good job, and good luck!
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by joelg87 14y ago
Indeed, that's exactly right! I think for us, as soon as we saw that people were sticking around we knew we had to switch to "do a better job marketing". With retention, that was validation that there must be many more people out there who
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by joelg87 14y ago
Thanks! That means a lot, really appreciate you mentioning it.
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by joelg87 14y ago
What an awesome question Adam. Just had a look at our cohort analysis. Happy to let you know that 16% of the December 2010 cohort (those 100 people) are still using Buffer today (27 months later). It's actually fairly representative of what
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by joelg87 14y ago
In the whole first month of Buffer, we had less than 100 signups. For comparison, we now have 560,000 users (2.5 years later). We now sign up 100 people within a couple hours. It amazes me to think about it. I had a previous startup that al
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by joelg87 14y ago
Buffer ( http://bufferapp.com ) - Anywhere in the world (we're a distributed team of 10 people in the US, UK, Hong Kong and Sydney). I'd love for you to come join Buffer for the fun ride. We have over 500,000 users and are on a $1M+ annual
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by joelg87 14y ago
I think this a great point. If you're in the habit of writing a TLDR for articles, maybe you can try writing the TLDR and then afterwards removing the 4 letters "TLDR" and leaving the sentence there. It's great to summarize in the first sen
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by joelg87 14y ago
For the MVP of Buffer, I implemented PayPal (no Stripe back then), but I avoided all the IPN hassles. The IPN is the part that would auto-upgrade people once they paid. The way I did it was to upgrade people manually as soon as I got the em
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by joelg87 14y ago
we're looking primarily for full-time help but definitely drop me a note anyway :-) joel@bufferapp.com
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by joelg87 14y ago
That's great advice Dharmesh, I think I can be much more specific there. Thanks for the heads up. For anyone reading who's interested, I think this might be the best example of how seriously we take self-improvement at Buffer: Each day we h
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by joelg87 14y ago
Buffer ( http://bufferapp.com ) - Anywhere in the world (we're a distributed team) I hope you are having a fantastic day. Happy new year :-) I'd love for you to come join Buffer for the fun ride. We're a small team of 7, we have 450,000 use
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by joelg87 14y ago
I know there are a lot of people who are very successful in those late quiet hours, rather than the early morning quiet hours. Tim Ferriss is a key person who comes to mind. However, the point I'm trying to make here is that in the case of
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by joelg87 14y ago
Thanks. Indeed, we're a different company, and still going strong independently :-)
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by joelg87 14y ago
Buffer ( http://bufferapp.com ) - San Francisco Hope you are having a fantastic weekend. I'd love for you to come join Buffer for the fun ride. We're a small team of 7, we have over 400,000 users and are about to hit a $1M annual revenue ru
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by joelg87 14y ago
I'd be curious about the decision between freemium (free plan) vs free trial - what was the process for choosing to use freemium? That's something I talk about with lots of founders, and there are specific reasons freemium works well for us
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How to Hit 4 million Users in 6 months – A Startup Case Study(startupremarkable.com)
60 points by joelg87 14y ago|17 comments
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by joelg87 14y ago
Hey. I definitely encourage you to try Circular. If you want to try Buffer too, then if it helps then I'm happy to let you know we're funded and profitable, 7 in the team. Let me know if you have any other questions! :-)
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by joelg87 14y ago
Thanks for the kind words Roland, awesome to see you here. Yep, you're right - I think what Julien is doing is really great. I've been in touch with him via email too, been great to talk a little and looking forward to more conversation :-)
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by joelg87 14y ago
I agree perhaps it's too much. Interestingly, it looks rather nice, clean and readable (IMO) without everything else (here's a screenshot: http://joelg.cc/KJp5/o ). Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure that have everything else there makes a big
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Living a double life: being a parent at an early stage startup(alyssaaldersley.com)
59 points by joelg87 14y ago|16 comments
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Maximize your excitement(joel.is)
37 points by joelg87 14y ago|1 comments
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by joelg87 14y ago
San Francisco, CA - JavaScript Engineers, PHP/MongoDB Engineers, Devops We're looking for awesome engineers at Buffer ( http://bufferapp.com ). We're a team of 7, about to open an office in SF. We have strong growth and revenues and amazing
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by joelg87 14y ago
Indeed. I actually try my best to find good research, and by my nature of reading many other blogs of founders much more successful than me, I often have great insights in my mind to include in my articles. My intention with this point was
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by joelg87 14y ago
Whilst there is a lot of truth here, as a founder I can say it's still very easy to "do things on other people's schedules". I think there is still a lot of discipline required to experiment with something like this, even if Steve has no "r
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by joelg87 14y ago
Very cool :-) I just tried it for Buffer and the numbers were a little off, but love the thinking!
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by joelg87 14y ago
I can completely understand how it feels like fooling people, and I felt that too when I thought to use this approach for Buffer. I think a "ask for forgiveness rather than permission" mindset can be the most beneficial here. In my mind, th
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by joelg87 14y ago
Awesome to hear :-) No issues at all, quite the opposite - I'm super happy it inspired this! Let me know if I can ever help with anything, more than happy to jump on a Skype call if it might be good. My email is in my profile ;)

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