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Short answer: 5 months with my new startup (to reach about $1500/mo revenue).

Longer answer: I've completely immersed myself in startups for around 3 years and spent a full 1.5 years on a startup which never reached ramen profitability nor got funding. I don't think I'd have been able to reach ramen profitability in 5 months without the learning I did in the previous one.

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I'll be the first to ask... do you have a blog post with the lessons learned that enabled your current success? (congratulations, by the way!)

Thanks Mark!

I wrote this post about how I went from the idea to the first paying customer in 7 weeks: http://blog.bufferapp.com/idea-to-paying-customers-in-7-week...

I also write weekly on my personal blog and almost every post has some form of reflection comparing the previous startup with what I'm doing for my current startup: http://joel.is

Great read, thanks. Incidentally, the link at the end 404s: http://blog.bufferapp.com/tagged/building_buffer (looks like it should be http://blog.bufferapp.com/category/building-buffer)

Aha, thanks for that Mark, it's because we moved from Tumblr to Wordpress. Much appreciated.

Im also interested in hearing your story.

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