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How Buffer Reached $20m in ARR by Focussing on Growing ARPA

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Established in 2010, Buffer hardly needs an introduction. An early entrant to the SaaS field, the company has pioneered a number of fields that are now commonplace in the industry — content marketing, the transparent startups movement, and remote work. Joel had what he calls “an honest conversation” with Buffer’s CTO Dan.

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My First 16: Welding Yourself to Early Customers with Marqeta’s Jason Gardner

Andreessen Horowitz

So, we started the company, it was about January 15th of 2010. So we didn’t have product market fit for that. How did you think about, who do I want to target for that product given where we are now. Jason: I’m a product person at heart. And I care more about the product and the product market fit.

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Woven CEO Tim Campos on how to spend your most important asset

Intercom, Inc.

The experience became the inspiration for his next act after Facebook: an intelligent calendar called Woven that can cut scheduling time in half. Tim joined me for a chat that ranged from how to balance human-computer interaction to how to define productivity in a knowledge-based economy. million apiece. Calendars are broken.

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Is Seed the new Series A? (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. To build the initial team, to build the product, to build the initial go to market, to build the first customers and to build the ARR, the starting.

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How Buffer Reached $20m in ARR by Focussing on Growing ARPA

Chart Mogul

Established in 2010, Buffer hardly needs an introduction. An early entrant to the SaaS field, the company has pioneered a number of fields that are now commonplace in the industry — content marketing, the transparent startups movement, and remote work. Joel had what he calls “an honest conversation” with Buffer’s CTO Dan.