Resources Open Why We Have Our Best Ideas in the Shower: The Science of Creativity Sep 7, 2018 8 min read Self-Improvement “I’m not really a creative person”, always struck me as an odd sentence. Could it really be that some of us are born to Leo Widrich, Team Buffer
Resources Open 3 Breakthroughs and 2 Failures that Have Shaped Buffer Nov 28, 2016 10 min read Workplace of the future In Buffer’s past six years, we’ve experimented with product and culture and had some successes and some flops. And yet there have been Leo Widrich, Team Buffer
Resources Open From Maker to Manager: The Most Challenging and Rewarding Transition of My 5-Year Startup Journey Sep 19, 2016 9 min read January 3, 2011, was my first day at Buffer as sort of the social media intern. The introductory task that Joel and I came up Leo Widrich, Team Buffer
Resources Open What Our 3 Biggest Successes and 2 Biggest Failures Taught Us About Company Culture Jun 29, 2016 10 min read At Buffer, our workplace environment looks a bit different: our “water cooler” is Slack, we utilize transparent emails [https://buffer.com/resources/buffer-transparent-email/], we offer Leo Widrich, Team Buffer
Resources Open These Are Buffer’s Top 10 Lessons from Growing to $10 Million ARR Jun 2, 2016 12 min read In five-and-a-half years of Buffer (wow!), we’ve been fortunate to cross many milestones — 3 million registered users, 90+ team members, and most recently, $10 Leo Widrich, Team Buffer
Resources Open Transparent Pricing 2016: Here’s Where Every Penny of Your Buffer Subscription Goes Feb 29, 2016 6 min read Hi there! This is an older post that we’ve kept around for transparency but that means that sometimes the information is no longer accurate. Leo Widrich, Team Buffer
Resources Open 7 Tough Lessons I’ve Learned on Giving and Receiving Feedback at our Startup Feb 2, 2016 9 min read It’s one of the biggest pieces that will make or break us as we try to become a great company, and I only recently Leo Widrich, Team Buffer
Resources Open Why We Support Teammates with Dependents (and Why it’s No Longer Part of our Salary Formula) Jan 14, 2016 6 min read Workplace of the future Hi there! This is an out of date post that we’ve kept around for transparency purposes. Go here [https://buffer.com/resources/family-support-fund/] to Leo Widrich, Team Buffer
Resources Open Why We Have Paid, Paid Vacation and Give Teammates an Extra $1,000 to Take Time Off Nov 16, 2015 7 min read Workplace of the future Hi there! This is an out of date post that we’ve kept around for transparency purposes. Go here [https://buffer.com/resources/employees-take-vacation/] to Leo Widrich, Team Buffer
Resources Open How We Explain Stock Options to Team Members & How Much Money They Would Make Nov 3, 2015 10 min read Workplace of the future A while back Danielle Morill asked this question on Twitter: > How many startups provide a spreadsheet explaining exactly what would happen to your options given Leo Widrich, Team Buffer
Resources Resources Buffer’s Marketing Manifesto in 500 Words Oct 29, 2015 2 min read Content Marketing Treat every piece of content—every tweet, every Facebook post, every CTA, every press outreach email—with the utmost care. There needs to be a Leo Widrich, Team Buffer
Resources Open 5 Acts of Generosity That Have Changed My Life Sep 9, 2015 6 min read Self-Improvement I like to think of myself as a “doer”—someone who can make things happen by himself. On occasion, I neglect the role that help Leo Widrich, Team Buffer
Resources Open When We Took Transparency Too Far: The Transparent Feedback Experiment Aug 17, 2015 5 min read Sometimes people ask us: “Do you think there are any downsides of being so transparent in the way that Buffer is?” Usually, I can only Leo Widrich, Team Buffer
Resources Open What We Got Wrong About Self-Management: Embracing Natural Hierarchy at Work Aug 5, 2015 6 min read When Buffer first moved to a self-management model, we moved to a completely flat structure. We just let loose and the message was “everyone go Leo Widrich, Team Buffer
Resources Open The ‘No Complaining’ Rule: What it Really Means to Create a Company Culture of Positivity Jul 20, 2015 5 min read Recently Joel and I were talking about the new Jawbone UP3. I had just gotten one for free as part of Buffer’s perks program, Leo Widrich, Team Buffer
Resources Open Why We Prioritize Hiring People Who Use Our Product May 19, 2015 5 min read When we wrote previously about how we hire at Buffer [https://buffer.com/resources/how-we-hire/], one key component was that everyone we hire have usage Leo Widrich, Team Buffer