Buffer

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• bullish endorsement Jason Calacanis

  I just buffer them now and then every two hours they go out it works so much better people don't see four in a row it is actually a good feature

• neutral fact_claim Joel Gascoigne

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

• bullish endorsement Unattributed

  I really think that you're a great entrepreneur and a great emerging entrepreneur because you've been very persistent in uh pursuing this idea and keeping people up to date on I think there are some real lessons here as to what Joel did in terms of staying in touch with people and showing demonstrative growth

• bullish prediction Joel Gascoigne

  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

• bearish criticism Unattributed

  but if I hit the buffer button I have to log into buffer so you know as opposed to say the Facebook or the the um Twitter button where I'm probably going to be logged in already

• bullish assessment Joel Gascoigne

  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

• bearish criticism Unattributed

  the app is elegantly simple which means easy to copy and in fact you're not the first person to make software like this you're probably the 10th or 20th

• neutral fact_claim Joel Gascoigne

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

• neutral fact_claim Joel Gascoigne

  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

• neutral assessment Joel Gascoigne

  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

• bullish assessment Joel Gascoigne

  the key thing we had going for us was our traction

• neutral fact_claim Joel Gascoigne

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

• neutral fact_claim Joel Gascoigne

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

• bullish assessment Joel Gascoigne

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

• bullish fact_claim Joel Gascoigne

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

• bullish endorsement Joel Gascoigne

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

• bullish assessment Joel Gascoigne

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

• bullish assessment Joel Gascoigne

  we got a lot better over time

• neutral fact_claim Joel Gascoigne

  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

• bullish assessment Jason Calacanis

  buffer app is crushing it thousands of pay Members a very interesting social tool that I am in love with

VentureSignalScore 0/100 for buffer, composed from 1 of 4 components (index v0 cross-signal), discounted ×0.79 for 30% signal coverage