Joel Gascoigne

Check out the monthly update email I have just sent this morning to all our investors. This post is an overview of Buffer's November update.

Buffer November Update: $2,347,000 run rate, 1,189,000 users

Below is the monthly update email I have just sent this morning to all our investors. I hope you enjoy taking a read about the full details of our work on Buffer in the last month. I’m excited to hear from you in the comments if you have any questions about what we’re up to! …

Reports

Below is the monthly update email I have just sent this morning to all our investors. I hope you enjoy taking a read about the full details of our work on Buffer in the last month. I’m excited to hear from you in the comments if you have any questions about what we’re up to! […]

Starting immediately Leo will now take the role of COO of Buffer. This post introduces Leo as COO at Buffer.

Kicking Buffer into a higher gear: Leo is COO

My co-founder Leo has had quite a few different roles throughout the lifetime of Buffer, and he’s had a large impact on lots of different areas. Until now Leo’s title has been CMO, however he’s working in the trenches of business, on marketing with Belle, as well as doing BD and also admin tasks (like …

My co-founder Leo has had quite a few different roles throughout the lifetime of Buffer, and he’s had a large impact on lots of different areas. Until now Leo’s title has been CMO, however he’s working in the trenches of business, on marketing with Belle, as well as doing BD and also admin tasks (like […]

Check out the monthly update email I have just sent this morning to all our investors. This post is an overview of Buffer's October update.

Buffer October Update: $2MM+ annual revenue run rate, 1MM+ users

Buffer October Update: $2,388,000 annual revenue run rate, 1,123,000 users

Buffer was hacked on October 26th, resulting in several thousand spam posts. This post shares how being hacked impacted our startup's metrics.

How being hacked impacted our startup’s key metrics

Buffer was hacked on October 26th, resulting in several thousand spam posts appearing on Twitter and Facebook. Here is the impact on our numbers. Last Saturday I was sitting in my favorite coffee shop doing a few support tickets and writing a blog post when I opened Facebook and saw that the whole of my …

Buffer was hacked on October 26th, resulting in several thousand spam posts appearing on Twitter and Facebook. Here is the impact on our numbers. Last Saturday I was sitting in my favorite coffee shop doing a few support tickets and writing a blog post when I opened Facebook and saw that the whole of my […]

Learn what happened with the hacking incident. This post is an overview of when Buffer's security was breached.

Buffer security breach: Resolved - here is what you need to know

Update: This article was originally titled “Buffer has been hacked – here is what’s going on”. The hacking incident happened yesterday (Saturday) and below is a recap of everything that happened. Please ask us any questions you have in the comments below. If you’re reading this, the most important section for you is Update 7. …

Buffer security breach has been resolved - here is what you need to know

Buffer security breach has been resolved – here is what you need to know

Update: This article was originally titled “Buffer has been hacked – here is what’s going on”. The hacking incident happened yesterday (Saturday) and below is a recap of everything that happened. Please ask us any questions you have in the comments below. If you’re reading this, the most important section for you is Update 7. […]

Meet Niel de la Rouviere. This post introduces Niel de la Rouviere as part of the Buffer team.

Niel de la Rouviere is part of the Buffer team

I’m super excited to share that Niel de la Rouviere has finished the 45 day Buffer Bootcamp* and recently accepted our invitation to join the Buffer team full-time! Niel is from South Africa and works on Buffer all the way from Taipei (we’re a distributed team). Niel has lots of experience with various different JavaScript …

I’m super excited to share that Niel de la Rouviere has finished the 45 day Buffer Bootcamp* and recently accepted our invitation to join the Buffer team full-time! Niel is from South Africa and works on Buffer all the way from Taipei (we’re a distributed team). Niel has lots of experience with various different JavaScript […]

See the email I have just sent this morning to all our investors. This post is an overview of Buffer's September update.

Buffer September Update: $2,088,000 run rate, 1,046,000 users

Meet Brian Lovin. This post introduces Brian Lovin as part of the Buffer team.

Brian Lovin is part of the Buffer Team

I’m happy to share that Brian Lovin has finished the 45 day Buffer Bootcamp* and just accepted our invitation to join the Buffer team full-time. I just hit send on an email to the whole team and we’re in the midst of a GIF party in HipChat :) Brian will be working out of Waco, Texas as …

I’m happy to share that Brian Lovin has finished the 45 day Buffer Bootcamp* and just accepted our invitation to join the Buffer team full-time. I just hit send on an email to the whole team and we’re in the midst of a GIF party in HipChat :) Brian will be working out of Waco, Texas as […]

Meet Bell Beth Cooper. This post introduces Bell Beth Cooper as part of the Buffer team.

Belle Beth Cooper is part of the Buffer Team

Today we welcome Belle Beth Cooper to the Buffer team. I just hit sent on an email to let the whole team know that Belle has accepted our offer and is now on board full-time at Buffer. Belle had recently crossed her 45 day mark in the intro period.* Belle is joining the Buffer team from Melbourne, Australia. Belle will …

Today we welcome Belle Beth Cooper to the Buffer team. I just hit sent on an email to let the whole team know that Belle has accepted our offer and is now on board full-time at Buffer. Belle had recently crossed her 45 day mark in the intro period.* Belle is joining the Buffer team from Melbourne, Australia. Belle will […]

A solid leadership team to drive us forward. This post shares on leadership and titles in startups.

Growing the C-Suite - On leadership and titles in Startups

Today is an exciting day at Buffer. We’re now a team of 11 people working full-time on the product, and we are preparing to grow the team towards 15 people fairly rapidly (our first step is to find someone to write great content for our main blog). With this growth, my co-founder Leo and I …

Growing the C-Suite – On leadership and titles in Startups

Today is an exciting day at Buffer. We’re now a team of 11 people working full-time on the product, and we are preparing to grow the team towards 15 people fairly rapidly (our first step is to find someone to write great content for our main blog). With this growth, my co-founder Leo and I […]

Learn five secrets to sharing great content, starting with RSS. This post shares five secrets to sharing great content 15 times a day.

My 5 Secrets to Sharing Great Content 15 Times a Day

I’ve been lucky enough to have people ask me fairly often how I continue to share great content on Twitter on a regular basis. Over the last year I’ve built up a number of different methods for doing this, as well as ways to keep to both high frequency and high quality. I’ve found 15 …

Tips / How To

I’ve been lucky enough to have people ask me fairly often how I continue to share great content on Twitter on a regular basis. Over the last year I’ve built up a number of different methods for doing this, as well as ways to keep to both high frequency and high quality. I’ve found 15 […]

We’ll never forget how we started. Thank you Twitter." This post explains why we are particularly thankful for Twitter.

Why we are particularly thankful for Twitter

We’ve talked before about why we think Twitter is awesome, and why we even think it can make you a better person. Today, I want to share with you why we are particularly thankful that Twitter exists. If you’ve been following along with our progress for a while, you might know that it’s still fairly …

Buffer News

We’ve talked before about why we think Twitter is awesome, and why we even think it can make you a better person. Today, I want to share with you why we are particularly thankful that Twitter exists. If you’ve been following along with our progress for a while, you might know that it’s still fairly […]

Learn how paying customers in 7 days became an idea. This post is an overview the idea to paying customers in 7 weeks and how we did it.

Idea to Paying Customers in 7 Weeks: How We Did It

This is the first of an ongoing series of posts called Building Buffer where we share our methods and learnings with the aim to help people and learn from others who have had similar experiences. We’d love your comments. Rewind… I’ve learned more in the two and a half month period since I launched Buffer …

A collection of posts on Online Marketing

Online Marketing

This is the first of an ongoing series of posts called Building Buffer where we share our methods and learnings with the aim to help people and learn from others who have had similar experiences. We’d love your comments. Rewind… I’ve learned more in the two and a half month period since I launched Buffer […]

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