Buffer: Turn A Side Project Into A Profitable Full-Time Company – with Joel Gascoigne

Joel Gascoigne, Buffer, European Founder, International Founders, Marketing, Mixergy Fan, SaaS (software as a service), Social Media

How does a side project become a profitable full-time company?

Joel Gascoigne is the founder of Buffer, which lets you add articles, pictures, and videos to it. And then it shares them for you throughout the day on services like Twitter and Facebook.

I want to find out how he got his profitable idea. Why this company reached about a million in sales, when his others failed. And how he found the time to build Buffer, when he had a full-time gig.

Joel Gascoigne

Buffer

Joel Gascoigne is the founder of Buffer, which lets you add articles, pictures, and videos to it. And then it shares them for you throughout the day on services like Twitter and Facebook.

 

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