Joel Gascoigne

2012

Oct 18, 2012 neutral fact fact_claim on Buffer

yeah none none I mean it's just the crossposting and stuff like that

— - Startups - SendGrid Startup of the Week #11 - Joel Gascoigne of Buffer — buffer
Oct 18, 2012 bullish prediction ✓ corroborated prediction on Buffer

a key focus is to like kind of become ubiquitous in the medium term ... keeping it simple will I I I believe that can work in the longer term um to just become very WID spread and I think we can keep GR in this way um just with a very simple paid offering maybe further down the line

— - Startups - SendGrid Startup of the Week #11 - Joel Gascoigne of Buffer — buffer
Oct 18, 2012 bullish interpretation ✓ corroborated assessment on Buffer

I think one of the key ones is um that we had a strong content marketing approach that was really really key ... and then building out the product as fast as we could and I think one of the key things we have now that differentiates us is this approach with the Integrations

— - Startups - SendGrid Startup of the Week #11 - Joel Gascoigne of Buffer — buffer
Oct 18, 2012 neutral fact fact_claim on Buffer

we breake even and um we have most of the funding still in the bank

— - Startups - SendGrid Startup of the Week #11 - Joel Gascoigne of Buffer — buffer
Oct 18, 2012 neutral fact fact_claim on Buffer

now we at uh 350,000 users overall um we still have a good conversion about 1.6 1.7% pay so we have close to 6,000 users right now and the paid plan is $10 a month so it's just a simple premium model you're making almost a million dollars a year

— - Startups - SendGrid Startup of the Week #11 - Joel Gascoigne of Buffer — buffer
Oct 18, 2012 neutral interpretation assessment on Buffer

we want to have a one base and we want to have people in the office we found it if we're all together we can move a lot faster

— - Startups - SendGrid Startup of the Week #11 - Joel Gascoigne of Buffer — buffer
Oct 18, 2012 bullish interpretation ✓ corroborated assessment on Buffer

the key thing we had going for us was our traction

— - Startups - SendGrid Startup of the Week #11 - Joel Gascoigne of Buffer — buffer
Oct 18, 2012 neutral fact fact_claim on Buffer

we had uh 25,000 users overall and uh paying customers we were making about 4K a

— - Startups - SendGrid Startup of the Week #11 - Joel Gascoigne of Buffer — buffer
Oct 18, 2012 neutral fact fact_claim on Buffer

we reached Ramen profitability who had enough for me and my co-founder Leo to get by

— - Startups - SendGrid Startup of the Week #11 - Joel Gascoigne of Buffer — buffer
Oct 18, 2012 bullish interpretation ✓ corroborated assessment on Buffer

for pocket they really like it because if people use buffer they can stay inside pocket and read more content

— - Startups - SendGrid Startup of the Week #11 - Joel Gascoigne of Buffer — buffer
Oct 18, 2012 bullish fact ✓ corroborated fact_claim on Buffer

we have know around 10,000 websites that have the buffer button um on there

— - Startups - SendGrid Startup of the Week #11 - Joel Gascoigne of Buffer — buffer
Oct 18, 2012 bullish promotion ✓ corroborated endorsement on Buffer

we're lucky to have we got pocket on board um that's a really good integration

— - Startups - SendGrid Startup of the Week #11 - Joel Gascoigne of Buffer — buffer
Oct 18, 2012 bullish interpretation ✓ corroborated assessment on Buffer

initially was the key thing was the buffering um and over time we found that really people really really love the cross posting

— - Startups - SendGrid Startup of the Week #11 - Joel Gascoigne of Buffer — buffer
Oct 18, 2012 bullish interpretation ✓ corroborated assessment on Buffer

we got a lot better over time

— - Startups - SendGrid Startup of the Week #11 - Joel Gascoigne of Buffer — buffer
Oct 18, 2012 neutral fact fact_claim on Buffer

we have a few issues um like with uh Facebook and sometimes with Twitter as well um we're sending a lot through those apis and we we do come across a few little issues from time to time

— - Startups - SendGrid Startup of the Week #11 - Joel Gascoigne of Buffer — buffer

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