Full Width [alt+shift+f] Shortcuts [alt+shift+k]
Sign Up [alt+shift+s] Log In [alt+shift+l]
35

How we're trying to stay innovative as a 3.5 year old startup

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I think I’ve just about got to that point with Buffer where sometimes when I stop to reflect on things I think “wow, we’ve actually been doing this for a while now”. It’s about 3.5 years
3rd May 2014

Stay updated

Get a weekly newsletter with the top 5 articles worth reading every week.

More from Joel Gascoigne

The power of company retreats: Thoughts after the 8th Buffer retreat

By now we have a fairly long history of doing retreats at Buffer. We’re now a 75 person team [https://buffer.com/about], and we just wrapped up our 8th company retreat in Madrid, Spain. Here’s a quick history of retreat locations, timeline and size over time: 1.

9th Mar 2017 • 57 votes
Change at Buffer: The next phase, and why our co-founder and our CTO are moving on

> Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog [https://open.buffer.com/change-at-buffer/]. We’ve always done things differently at Buffer. For me, this has always come from a natural desire to question things. Why base your company and team in a single location? Why is it customary to

20th Feb 2017 • 57 votes
From startup to scaleup: What we’re changing as we make the transition

> Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog [https://open.buffer.com/from-startup-to-scaleup-what-were-changing-as-we-make-the-transition/] . In the past couple of months, I’ve had a number of thoughts around the growth Buffer has experienced in the last year and some interesting challenges and paradoxes that seems to be bringing us. I’

1st Jun 2016 • 60 votes
11 cities in 3 months: The highs and lows of digital nomad lifestyle

In December, my friend and co-worker Brian [https://twitter.com/brian_lovin] casually mentioned to me that he would love to go traveling and explore Asia. I love Asia. I lived in Japan as a kid for 3.5 years, and I lived in Hong Kong for 6 months in

6th May 2015 • 37 votes
The top reason we haven’t sold our startup

We’ve been lucky at Buffer [http://bufferapp.com] to receive a number of acquisition offers along our journey so far. When I mention this to people, a key question that often comes up is “how did you decide not to sell?”. The earliest offer we had for Buffer was

13th Jan 2015 • 39 votes

More in programming

Unattended reboots with encrypted disks

An introduction to ZKeys: a new service that stores encryption keys off-site and automatically locks access to them if the client machines go offline for a long period of time.

2 days ago • 1 votes
Education Shouldn't Be Held for Ransom

Google told K-12 schools they could turn off AI, but only if they gave up search too. That isn’t integration. It’s holding education for ransom.

5 days ago • 1 votes
AI Assisted Sermon

Once a year at my church, I usually give one sermon. I was asked to tie the theme to a young adult retreat we had taken to the Sunshine Coast. My first experience giving a sermon was many years ago at my old home church in El Monte, California. It was a Vietnamese-American church, but…

5 days ago • 1 votes
Fortune Telling and Speculative Design

Practical tools for design engineers to explore possible futures through speculative design

5 days ago • 1 votes
Must we always use LLMs this way?

As with my last post on AI, let me open with a statement: Just because most people hold AI a certain way, doesn’t mean that we always must, either now or in the future. As I noted in that piece, and my shades of gray post, I am well aware — and agree with — … Continue reading Must we always use LLMs this way? →

6 days ago • 1 votes
📚 BoredReading

You seem to be enjoying this.

Join free to unlock everything.

Create free account

Already have an account? Sign in