joelgascoigne

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by joelgascoigne 12y ago
At Buffer we've started to move in this direction. I can highly recommend watching this video if you're interested in self-management and the idea of a new management paradigm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcS04
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by joelgascoigne 12y ago
Oh, I think most if it is :) Lots of right time right place.
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by joelgascoigne 12y ago
That's right, good eye Egbert and thanks for chiming in with the details! Interestingly, Leo and I have been doing this for almost 4 years, whereas most of the team is much earlier in the journey. We have a couple of the earliest membe
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by joelgascoigne 12y ago
Thank you Peter! Let me know if I can ever help you with anything :-)
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by joelgascoigne 12y ago
Indeed, we haven't raised a large single round from an institution, though we did have 3 firms put in $50k each as part of that $450k round. The board is just myself and Leo.
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by joelgascoigne 12y ago
That's around the right ballpark. If you want to do the actual calculation, feel free to take a look at our spreadsheet of salaries here: https://docs.google.com/a/bufferapp.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=...
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by joelgascoigne 12y ago
Thanks for the help vardy! We're currently 22 full-time and will be 24-25 in a few weeks.
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by joelgascoigne 12y ago
Hi Brandon! Out of our total March revenue of $246,000 [1], 79% came from our $10/mo Awesome Plan and the other 21% came from Buffer for Business [2]. Let me know if you have any other questions :-) [1] http://open.bufferapp
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by joelgascoigne 13y ago
Wow, thanks so much for the kind words. Let me know if I can ever help with anything, and good luck with the self-employed business! :-)
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by joelgascoigne 13y ago
Great questions Ryan! Happiness Heroes are the people who help customers with queries via Email, Twitter and Live Chat. Weekend Warriors are people in the team who help with those same things during the weekend (though it's a full-time
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by joelgascoigne 13y ago
We've been transparent about how many applications we get, which is quite a lot from what I've heard other founders say when I've mentioned the numbers: http://open.bufferapp.com/hiring-at-buffer-in-february-2
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by joelgascoigne 13y ago
Let me know if you have any questions about that or anything else :-)
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by joelgascoigne 13y ago
We're fully distributed, that includes all engineers too :-) Colin is based in Cambridge. Firmly rooted in Warwickshire is no problem! I went to Warwick University by the way :-)
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by joelgascoigne 13y ago
Hey Vishal, that's amazing to hear! Data scientist is a role we've been pondering, if you are up for it, we'd still love to hear from you :-)
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by joelgascoigne 13y ago
Hey everyone, hope your April is off to a killer start! Like in last month's Who is hiring I wanted to share all our numbers for complete transparency. March just came to a close and Buffer stands at 1.4M total users served by a small
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These companies are tracking the fitness of their employees(theguardian.com)
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by joelgascoigne 13y ago
Wow, thanks so much. I still have a huge amount to learn :-) Luckily there are a lot of great books out there and mentors around who I can learn from in order to try and become the best CEO I can be. I think there's a chance a 16 month
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by joelgascoigne 13y ago
Wow, so happy to hear that! Excited to check out your email :-)
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by joelgascoigne 13y ago
Hey Adit, thanks so much for the kind words, it's comments like this that make me excited to get out of bed every day and continue building the company and reflecting on the culture! We're still looking for help with design, would
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by joelgascoigne 13y ago
We've pondered this a lot and have decided this Summer will be a little early for us to be set up for internship positions. I'm hoping we might do it next Summer!
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by joelgascoigne 13y ago
Yes, absolutely! I am a Brit living in San Francisco and my co-founder is Austrian. We know this process well having been through it personally for both of us and several others in the team. Our philosophy is that we should all have the opp
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by joelgascoigne 13y ago
Hi Michael, we're certainly in need of help in terms of DevOps and Systems Engineering challenges too. Our architecture has a lot of room for improvement and we'd benefit a lot from having someone focus on systems. Let me know if
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by joelgascoigne 13y ago
Hi! right now since it's still the early set of people for the team and we're establishing the culture, we're looking primarily for people who will be fully on board full-time. in the future I think we might reach a point whe
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by joelgascoigne 13y ago
wow, thanks so much! let me know if I can ever help you with anything :-)
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by joelgascoigne 13y ago
Buffer ( http://bufferapp.com ) Hey everyone, hope your weekend is off to a killer start! February just came to a close and Buffer stands at 1.4M total users served by a small 16 person team spread across 12 cities and 5 continent
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by joelgascoigne 13y ago
Thanks for the detailed comment, that makes a lot of sense to me. Also, what an awesome book that looks like. I've just grabbed it. Thanks.
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by joelgascoigne 13y ago
This is a really great point. We don't see as much negotiation as might be expected, however what you say is definitely true to an extent. How do you think we could improve that aspect?
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by joelgascoigne 13y ago
Joel here. This is a really interesting point, I've thought about it a lot. From the linked article: "In Startupland, everybody should be working towards the same goal: that big juicy exit. That’s the only payday any CEO should be
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by joelgascoigne 13y ago
That's right. In addition, Facebook has an 'appsecret_proof' method where you can require signing of all API calls with the app secret. We've now implemented this. Details: https://developers.facebook.com&#x2F
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by joelgascoigne 13y ago
Hi Justin. To clarify, from what I understand, October 28 is the date MongoHQ detected this. They've provided us with the logs of database access, and unfortunately the queries leading to our spam attack on Saturday started as early as

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