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Dream Big, Go Small, and the Path to a Minimum Lovable Product

Learn how we scope products at Buffer, how we build new features, and how we work with tradeoffs and constraints to ship something customers love.

Inside Buffer

How Our 10-Person Marketing Team Spends Money Each Month

See exactly how a real-life marketing team spends money each month, and get a copy of a marketing budget that you can use right away...

Engineering

How to Hold a Hackathon (When No One’s in the Same Room)

Learn how we organized a "Hack Week" hackathon at Buffer ... and how we did it remotely! See what we built and the way we...

Inside Buffer

Slack-off Fridays: What Happened When One Team Experienced a Day Without Slack

Our latest team experiment: not using Slack on Fridays. Find out how the experiment went, how we set things up, and everything we learned.

Buffer News and Updates

We Spent $3.3M Buying Out Investors: Why and How We Did It

Last month, Buffer spent $3.3 million – about half of all the cash we had in the bank – to buy out our main venture...

Inside Buffer

8 Ideas for Getting Started on a Side Project and 37 Side Projects From the Buffer Team

Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in August of 2017. It was updated in August of 2018 to reflect the most recent side projects of the...

Inside Buffer

Where the Buffer Team is Speaking in 2019: Conferences, Meetups, and More

We love conferences, and who doesn’t? They’re a great place to connect with like-minded individuals. Over the years as the Buffer team has grown, we’ve...

Company Culture

Planning A Company Retreat: Things We Did Differently for Buffer’s 9th Retreat in Singapore

Prefer to listen? Here’s an audio version of this post. I still remember the setting: it was a little coffee shop in sunny Scottsdale, Arizona....

Company Culture

How We Do Team Benefits As a Remote and International Company

Prefer to listen? Here’s the audio version of this post: Being a remote team and international company comes with a lot of things that are...

Buffer News and Updates

How #bufferchat Shaped Our Community and What We Plan to Do Next

Of the many ways that we engage with our audience — email, video, content, socks — one of our longest-standing traditions has been #bufferchat, our...

Diversity

Our Latest Pay Analysis: What Women and Men Make at Buffer in 2018

At Buffer, we’ve always marched to the beat of our own drum when it comes to how we pay our team. We make our salaries...

Company Culture

Why We Believe Meeting In Person Is So Important For a Remote Team (Plus Buffer’s 9th Retreat Location!)

We’re a fully remote team and have been since our start. We’ve also known the importance of meeting in person since the team started growing....

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