By: Whei Wong
did you actually spend on marketing when you were at the beginning stage to validate if it was a viable business? as in, how did the people find your site?
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Absolutely love the “The smallest test” method to validate your idea. I have been reading The Lean Startup and this article have shown a very good way to clearly and rapidly see if an idea have any...
View ArticleBy: Billy Han
Joel, Thanks for this gem of a post. This mirrors, well, actually, it clarifies and reinforces much of what I saw at your presentation. So again, thank you for the inspiration!
View ArticleBy: Keith Rozario
this is inspiring man…Thanks. I love buffer and continue to use it for promoting stuff on twitter, but I really loved the story behind it . Amazing!
View ArticleBy: Edible Landscaping
Incredible article … so many great launch ideas! … and I ADORE Buffer, I tell all my webmaster buddies about it. You are saving my binge-tweeting life (not to mention that it makes weekends a breeze!)....
View ArticleBy: Igor Sylvester
Joel, would you mind sharing the html for this landing page? Or, explain what tools you used to build it?
View ArticleBy: Scott Lieberman
Great use of the Lean Startup principles! I love to see when people actually apply them in the real world instead of just theory. I work at Intuit (not exactly lean) and managers have started to use...
View ArticleBy: John McFarlane
Joel, how organised were you with what you were going to build before actually building the app and testing whether there was interest with the method you write about here? It makes a lot of sense not...
View ArticleBy: grant
I imagine you had lots of ideas and tried to see which ones you would like to work on, how did u filter out all the other ideas and decide to “test” this one. I find myself struggle with finding the...
View ArticleBy: tannerc
It may be different for the Buffer team, but something that has worked for my teams has been evaluating ideas based on size/scope (e.g. will this take one day to create/implement, a week, a month?) and...
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By: Anoop Sudhakaran
This is a powerful blog post. Love the way you tested the viability of your business before (soon after) starting to code your app. Thanks for posting behind the scenes of this awesome app. Have been...
View ArticleBy: Bogdan Neacsu
I’ve listened by chance in Umano App the article posted on Lifehacker.com and I found it very helpful and motivating. This article helped me to find BUFFER and it’s blog. Both are right what I need at...
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By: Michael Thomas
Hey Igor, I’m not Joel, but I think I can help For all my landing pages I use a tool called Unbounce. It’s really intuitive and has been the easiest to use so far. http://www.shelfbeta.com is one of my...
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Hey Joel, Awesome post! I found this post after Carolyn (on your team) suggested I check it out, so thanks to both of you. I’d love your thoughts on my most recent project: http://www.shelfbeta.com I’m...
View ArticleBy: Amit
Hi Joel – great write up. The validation philosophy is one that Noah Kagan of AppSumo also promotes and its absolutely the “Street Smart” way of doing things. Also the fact that you used existing...
View ArticleBy: Wilson
Hi Joel, Great post! Could you further explain your reasoning on why you decided to go with a 2 page MVP instead of a 1 page thus eliminating one extra step. From my understanding, you decided to go...
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