The Heavybit Library
The Heavybit Library is an extensive catalog of educational content featuring hundreds of hours of expert presentations, insightful podcasts, and articles focused on helping technical founders achieve breakout success.
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Winter Break Resources: Reflecting on Your Leadership Style
We’re about to go into a period of downtime, or at the very least, a period of reduced meetings. Founders, managers, and aspiring...
In a Crap Market, Don’t Abandon Your Developer Community
If you’re building a developer product, it’s not enough to simply be loved by individual users and contributors. In a year...
BVP Hackathon Helps Solve a Bay Area Problem
On Oct 23-24th Heavybit hosted the BVP Hackathon – an event where more than 50 developers, community partners and tech companies...
Heavybit Show & Tell: Canary Releases & Scaling PostgreSQL w/ LaunchDarkly CEO Edith Harbaugh
A few months ago we introduced our two newest members to the Heavybit membership: LaunchDarkly and CitusData. In a recent...
Early Hiring for Technical Founders: Product Marketing
Heavybit works with developer, infrastructure and enterprise SaaS companies. Founding teams generally have a great understanding...
Bias Busting: It’s About Tracking Data and Being Deliberate
In 2015, a number of technology companies who believed they were meritocratic found two things: That they’d built their...
Inclusion and Access: Heavybit’s Programs for Women
Early programmer Grace Hopper coined the term “debugging” and is credited with saying, “The most dangerous phrase in the language...
Heavybit Show & Tell: Marketing Referral Loops with Codenvy
In a recent Heavybit Show and Tell, Codenvy CEO Tyler Jewell discussed his marketing efforts and how after a dip in acquisition...
PR for Developer Companies with TechCrunch, eWeek, and VentureBeat
Heavybit Partner Dana Oshiro runs a panel featuring developer focused reporters Frederic Lardinois of TechCrunch, Blair Hanley...
The Elegant Proposal: How to Land a DevCo Contract or Job
The most elegant solutions — in code and in writing — are often simple. If you’re a contractor, agency or potential employee...
Before Signal: Lessons from Twilio’s Launch Masters
At Heavybit, we aim to connect our member companies with mentors and advisors who understand developer startups. Perhaps one of...
Heavybit Show & Tell: Iron.io’s DockerWorker
There’s a reason Docker just raised a $95M funding round. The promise of containers running asynchronously in the cloud means the...