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Buffer is a trailblazer when it comes to openness and transparency in the startup world, so they were the obvious choice for a great SaaS company to use as an example model using Opstarts scenario planning. Here's how we were able to build a realistic model using that business data Buffer has generously shared with the tech and startup community.
We started with this very honest and open post from May, which went into detail on their current situation and plan. That gave us a starting May cash balance of $1.3M to use in the model.
Employee expense modeling: Buffer shares everything about their salaries. So to start the model, we imported their employee list from this spreadsheet. We didn't find any data on payroll and other employee taxes, so we added a standard 15% employee overhead factor.
We also added a placeholder employee "Additional Employees" to account for employees that are no longer in the spreadsheet and use to model future hires. With ~80 current employees and a goal to double revenue in 12-18 months, we modeled new hiring of 3 employees per month in 2017 to support that growth.
Revenue modeling: Buffer shares both monthly reports and a revenue dashboard. We first imported their entire product list with subscriber quantities from May, and updated products with their actual selling prices (probably due to discounts or other custom deals, some of the product lines had revenue per user numbers that were a little different than the listed price). The vast majority of Buffer revenues are from six subscription products: Pro monthly/yearly, Small Business v1 monthly/yearly, and Small Business monthly/yearly, so we focused on just those products for this model. We looked at the May through September subscriber numbers for each of them and modeled some approximate growth and churn rates using those (in a real model, we would import in the exact subscriber data for a more accurate model). We modeled the Small Business v1 products churning with no new growth. With access to detailed customer data, we could instead create a link to model those users switching over to the v2 products over time:
But rather than guess at that, we kept things simple and just modeled those older product subscribers churning away. We modeled the v2 products growing very rapidly for the next few months as subscribers transition over, then stabilized the growth at 10% monthly growth over time. For the Pro products, we used 4% monthly growth rate for both products, with 2% of the monthly subscribers churning each month and 20% of the annual subs churning each year.
Expense modeling: We didn't have access to recent data here, so we made a spreadsheet using numbers from Buffer's transparent pricing page and imported those as the expenses. Since at the start of the model in May they were about double the revenue compared to that post, we doubled most of the initial expense values. For Compose and AWS, we modeled them increasing 2% each month. Healthcare costs we modeled as a link of 3% of salaries. Stripe we created links based on sales, 2.2% and 30 cents for each payment. Computer costs we modeled based on new hires, and internet costs we modeled based on number of employees.
We then compared the modeled numbers to the latest numbers published by Buffer and in their revenue dashboard. For September, they have $1.56M in the bank, and our rough model shows $1.61M. And our model shows $960K MRR in September vs $985K in their revenue dashboard – this is to be expected, since we only modeled growth in their main six products. But overall, this is pretty close to reality, and a great way to illustrate SaaS planning concepts.
Huge thanks again to the Buffer team for sharing all this info, it's an amazing asset to everyone in the SaaS world.
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Flooding Crests In Vicksburg; U.S. Diplomats Attacked In Pakistan
The flooding Mississippi River has crested lower than expected in Vicksburg, Miss., but the Army Corps of Engineers warns it will be days before the surging waters recede, according to AP. Now the water is surging downstream to the Gulf of Mexico.
Note: We incorrectly described the sites that worry environmental activist group, the Louisiana Bucket Brigade. The group says there's one oil refinery in the projected flood zone and no chemical plants. But the group says there are thousands of oil and gas wells and abandoned oil waste pits that need to be guarded. NPR's Jeff Brady tells NPR Newscasts the state of Louisiana says oil companies must install automatic cutoffs for wells that might be inaccessible during a flood.
Libya has released four foreign journalists held for weeks. The Guardian says American Clare Morgana Gillis, GlobalPost reporter James Foley, Spanish photojournalist Manuel Varela and British freelancer Nigel Chandler were taken to Tunisia. But they revealed missing South African journalist Anton Hammerl was dead, even though Libya had insisted Hammerl would be released.
Two U.S. consulate vehicles were hit by a bomb in Peshawar, Pakistan today. The Los Angeles Times says a Pakistani bystander was killed, and the Americans inside the vehicles were slightly wounded. Pakistani television says the Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
The head of the Japanese utility that runs the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant is resigning. Japan Today says Masataka Shimizu is quitting to take responsibility for the nuclear disaster. At the same time, Tokyo Electric Power Co. says it lost $15 billion dollars for its fiscal year that ended in March, according to the Washington Post.
One of North Korea's leaders is visiting China. The AP cites South Korean news agencies as saying North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is making the trip but earlier reports indicated his son, Kim Jong Un, was the traveler. North Korea is an extremely secretive country but there are reports the country is suffering devastating food shortages.


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Join Aaron Quigley for an in-depth discussion in this video Optimize your viewing experience, part of Learning with Lynda.com.
- [Voiceover] One thing to keep in mind as you're watching Lynda.com content, is that it's important to minimize distractions. For some of us, we really want to be able to read the transcript and listen to the author and watch the content. And at the same time we're taking notes and we're changing the playback speed. But for other learners, it's really important to just focus in on what the author's saying and then take care of those learning supports at another time. Now there's a variety of ways that you can customize your experience when watching Lynda.com material. We're gonna talk about how to optimize the player window to match your individual style.
The first thing I'd like to point out is the ability to dim everything on the screen except for the player window itself. Let's go and head back to our settings menu which is the gear icon directly below the player window. If I select the settings menu, in the bottom left-hand corner, I have the option to dim the lights. Let's go and click that. You'll notice that the rest of the web browser is still there, but everything has been dimmed or has a grey overlay on top of it so that we can focus in just on the video that's being played. If I choose to raise the lights, I can now view everything else that's on the page.
Now while we've got our settings menu open, another thing I'd like to point out is that you can change the video quality when watching a Lynda.com video. By default, and based on your web speed, it's gonna select 720p which is a high-definition video. If you're on a mobile device, or your internet is not able to keep up with the high-definition video, you can change this down to 540p or even 360p. Having a video quality that's right for your particular web speed is important because it's gonna keep the video from pausing at inappropriate times which can be a distraction to the learning.
Another way that we can customize this learning experience is to actually pop out the player window into its own screen or its own window. To do that, let's go and click the pop out video icon which is just to the left of the full-screen icon. If I select this, it's actually gonna open up the player and start playing in a brand new window. This is a great thing to do if you have two monitors. With a secondary monitor, you can grab and drag this particular window on to that monitor, watch the screen on one monitor and have your exercise files loaded on the second monitor. Now if all we're trying to do, however, is just make the player window as big as possible then using the pop out window is not always the best option.
I'm gonna go and close out of this pop out window just simply by hitting the X button in the upper left-hand corner. In order to maximize the player window, but only use one monitor, the best way to do that is to use the full-screen option on the very far-right of our menu. If I click the full-screen option, it's gonna automatically go to the far left and the far top of my particular monitor. This is gonna make sure that I can see absolutely everything that the author's doing and is a great best practice if you're doing a developer course and you want to make sure to focus in on the code that's being written. In order to leave full-screen, there's several options.
I can either come back down and click the exit full-screen in the bottom right-hand corner, or I can hit the escape key on my keyboard. Now that we've explored a few ways that you can optimize the Lynda.com viewing experience, I highly recommend that you take the time to try each of them out, see what works best for you, and then use that as you move forward.
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Hi, thank you for stopping by to look at my portfolio. My name is Meredith and I am an artist/designer/illustrator. I started out as a traditional artist with a love of oil and watercolour painting as well as collage and fashion illustration. Ten years ago I made the leap to digital. My focus now is surface pattern design and all things vector illustration.
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Semans Area Code is 306 and Time Zone is Central (GMT -06:00).
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Semans Postal Code is a six-character string that forms part of a postal address in Canada. Like British and Dutch postcodes, Semans - SK postal codes are alphanumeric.
The first three characters (alpha-numeric-alpha) of the postal code which represent a geographic area in Semans.
The last three characters denote a Semans local delivery unit (LDU). An LDU denotes a specific single Semans address or range of addresses, which can correspond to an entire small town, a significant part of a medium-sized town, a single side of a city block in larger cities, a single large building or a portion of a very large one, a single (large) institution in Semans, Saskatchewan, such as a university or a hospital, or a business that receives large volumes of mail on a regular basis
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Here is a hill covered with their many gods.
One of the first public wells in Taiwan. Note the wealthy have half the well behind the wall.
Though there are many sights to see in Taiwan, when I think of the Trip I remember the people who
are so friendly and sharing. Who truly go out of their way to help you. Who try to appease many
deities and somehow miss the one true God. Disabled or not, a people who when they come to
know God, truly serve with fervency and selflessness. Pray for Joy Fellowship Siloam, a church of
Disabled individuals, that God would continue to use them minister to the disabled. Also pray for
Uwe Mauer and his ministry Taiwan Sunshine, a school for special needs children in Taeipei and a
Ministry wanting to expand the gospel message to children and families of special needs children.
Lastly, pray for he Williamson's, they are trying to teach Taiwanese churches how to incorporate
A special needs ministry into the churches of Taiwan.