The Heavybit Library

Blocking and Tackling

Rapid growth is critical to startup success, but hiring sales people only scales linearly. When properly conceived and executed,...

Jive Software CEO on Hiring Salespeople

Former Jive Software CEO and Heavybit Advisor Dave Hersh discussed how tech startups can “bake sales into their DNA.” Says Hersh,...

Designing a Beautiful REST+JSON API

Designing a clean and intuitive REST + JSON API is no small feat. You have to worry about resources, pagination, query...

Advisor's Corner: The Biz Dev Toolbox

On March 25th Heavybit Advisor An Le gave a talk on The Business Development Toolbox. The talk was so well received that we’ve...

May 5, 2014

Growth Hacking with Facebook and Dropbox

With so many data points to track and measure, startups often lack alignment around common and company-wide goals. YesGraph...

Gartner Selects Apiary as Cool Vendor of 2014

Gartner, a leader in IT research and an advisory firm, has selected Heavybit member Apiary among its list of innovative,...

Runscope Raises $6M Series A

Just one year after launch, Heavybit member company Runscope has raised a $6 million Series A round led by General Catalyst....

Member Spotlight: Meteor

Founded by Matt DeBergalis, Nick Martin, and Geoff Schmidt, Meteor is an open-source JavaScript platform for building top-quality...

May 5, 2014

Building Companies that Devs & DevOps Teams Love… And Avoiding Expensive Mistakes

Jesse Robbins speaks to Heavybit members about the expensive mistakes he’s seen in his time as an entrepreneur and now investor.

Member Spotlight: Treasure Data

Founded in 2011 by Hironobu Yoshikawa, Kazuki Ohta and Sadayuki Furuhashi, Treasure Data’s mission is to build the first...

Pantheon Launches for WordPress

WordPress developers can now build, launch, and run their sites on Pantheon. Over the past two years, Pantheon has helped tens...