The other day, I was at the gym with my co-founder Joel and we started a short discussion about other products as part of Buffer’s product offering we might enjoy building one day. We went through various problems we’d enjoy solving, like online payments, social media monitoring and so forth. At one point, we got into … Read more
My co-founder Joel and I recently received $1m in cash each, through Buffer’s latest funding round. It triggered a fascinating discussion between us about why and if we should share this with the world and be transparent about it. $1m is pocket change in Silicon Valley terms, but for me, this is more money than … Read more
For the last 2 to 3 years, about every day, I would wake up, open my laptop and type the letter “g” into the Google Chrome bar and hit enter. Chrome would auto-complete it to “growth.bufferapp.com”. It was like a daily ritual to check on Buffer’s growth numbers from a number of different angles. Revenue, … Read more
About 2-3 years ago, I decided I wanted to start to declutter my life gradually. I went from one backpack and a carry-on bag to just one backpack. I count the following things as my belongings at this point: 6 t-shirts 2 sweaters, 2 hoodies 1 coat 2 pairs of dress-pant sweat-pants 6 pairs of … Read more
Thanks to a heads up from Joel, I saw a fantastic talk from Dharmesh Shah, Co-Founder and CTO of Hubspot. You most likely know him from the great blog he is running OnStartups. I thought of watching the video and extracting the 17 best quotes I’ve found. If you are a Buffer user you can … Read more
Oh boy, this is probably the scrappiest post I have ever written. Yet, it came more natural than anything. A friend, who is just about to start out with his venture, asked me these 5 questions, and these are the answers I gave: 1.) What are a few things you would differently if you could start … Read more
Do you know them? The days in the lifetime of your startup where you just suck at what you are doing? Today is one of those days for me. I am in the 4 month of building a startup (Buffer). The ups and downs we have seen so far were numerous and to put it … Read more
Recently, I’ve started to offer more free time for Skype calls so I can help and work with more people in the startup world. It’s been an absolutely terrific experience. From only a few calls, the key takeaway, that most people seem to struggle with is to stop more thoughts enter their minds and to … Read more
There are tons of different topics I’d like to put into blogposts every week. To make more of them come alive, we’ve started to publish weekly videos, discussing these topics in very short form of around 5 minute videos. Here is the first one title “What are the 3 things you focus on in life”, … Read more
Recently I finished a book that inspired me and I believe has directly influenced some of my opinion on a few projects going forward with Buffer. The book is titled “The Monk and the Riddle”. It’s a brilliant book that I felt bridges the gap between 2 very different worlds I’ve recently ventured into: Startups … Read more
Recently I finished a book that inspired me and I believe has directly influenced some of my opinion on a few projects going forward with Buffer. The book is titled “The Monk and the Riddle”. It’s a brilliant book that I felt bridges the gap between 2 very different worlds I’ve recently ventured into: Startups … Read more
This weekend, my co-founder Joel and I took a 2 day weekend trip to L.A. There was no particular reason for it really. Ever since we arrived in the US, we hadn’t spent much time exploring other parts of the country, other than SF, so we felt it was time to widen the horizon a … Read more
For a long time, I’ve always wanted to learn to mediate and start improving my inner sense of calm. Multiple times in the past few months I’ve tried to follow some very straight forward guides from various Buddhist books I’ve been reading. They all mention to just sit down for 5-10 minutes, close your eyes, … Read more
That is the line, that we have had built into our heads since the very start. “What could go wrong?”, is what our ancestors asked themselves every day. When they went into the woods to gather berries or find the next animal to kill, that was the one premise they went out with. That is … Read more
Let’s say you’ve grown up in a small town like me. Or a big town. It doesn’t quite matter so much. You went to school there, you made lots of friends there. You even found your first love there. Then you went on going to College there. You enjoyed some more time with your friends … Read more
Every evening, before I go to bed, I tend to read 2-3, sometimes 4 pages of a book that I’m in the middle of. It didn’t used to be like that, I would take time out of my day and spend a longer time reading a book, trying to soak as much in as I … Read more
The way bamboo grows is one of the most bizarre, fascinating and untypical occurrences for plants and for nature in general, I’ve learned. At first, for 5 years, after you have sown the seed you see nothing, other than a tiny shoot, poking its head up from the ground. All the actual growth is happening … Read more
Recently I sat down with a new friend I met for dinner. We talked about what it takes to achieve the goals you want to achieve in life. My friend is already a very accomplished marketing professional. And yet, there was lots more she wanted to do. One conclusion I kept coming back to in … Read more
Last week I had the chance to meet lots of different super smart entrepreneurs here in Vienna. There was one great discussion I had with a startup that I particularly admired. They have built a product so beautiful and seamless I was blown away. In fact, I have used other similar products out there too, … Read more
In the early days at Buffer, we would have very clear roles as a team. Joel would code, build new features and improve the product. I would write, get press and do guest blogging to drive signups. For a start, this worked very well. As we moved on, it felt as something was missing. The … Read more