Startup Journey Ten billion emails sent through EmailOctopus Milestone posts could be seen self-congratulatory. But they’re also a great opportunity to take a step back from the support emails, and the lines of code, to reflect on what we’ve achieved. And, more importantly, share some of those insights as we scale. In April 2017 we wrote our first milestone post, celebrating one billion […] Written by Tom Evans July 22, 2020August 9, 2023
Startup Journey 5 things we learned at EmailOctopus by going remote Last month, my wife and I moved from London to Vancouver. It was a great opportunity for us: to see new places, meet new people and take a break from our hectic London commutes. But for me, it meant saying a reluctant goodbye to the EmailOctopus office and our small but mighty team in the […] Written by jonathan July 24, 2018June 24, 2021
Startup Journey How do you deal with a bad month in SaaS? Over the past year at EmailOctopus we’ve blogged about our successes; from sending 1 billion emails through to our launches on Product Hunt. Inevitably, though, all startups and small businesses go through tougher times. Times where acquisition slows down and you have a period of slower growth, or even worse, a contraction in revenue or customers. In the past year, […] Written by Tom Evans August 3, 2017December 13, 2021
Startup Journey The road to one billion emails The story and lessons behind sustainably scaling EmailOctopus. Last month we hit a significant milestone in the journey of our email marketing platform, EmailOctopus. Over the past couple of years we’ve hit a number of milestones; hundreds of customers, thousands of users and hundreds of thousands in revenue. But 1,000,000,000 emails, despite being very much a […] Written by Tom Evans April 11, 2017October 26, 2020