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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Testing and Dev/Production Parity in Docker
DockerCon is just around the corner, and as you may have heard, “Containers are the Future” ;). With that in mind, let’s take a...
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...
Beyond Compensation: Recruiting for Developers and Dev Companies
Last year 19-year-old Cornell engineer Jessica Shu published what some of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies are paying their...
Acompli’s Capital Efficiency: Staying Lean in All the Right Places
On December 1st, Microsoft acquired 18-month-old Acompli for $200 million dollars. The company was one of the first in the...
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: 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...
Heavybit’s James Lindenbaum on Developer Company Trends
Every year at Heavybit, we meet a tremendous number of developer-oriented companies of all sizes, as well as a lot of enterprise...
5 Useful Tools for Creating Developer and Startup Content
After looking at patterns in 70 popular blogs using this blog harvester script, Takipi founder Iris Shoor grew her Takipi blog...
Top 10 Mistakes Getting to $100M ARR
In this talk, Jason gives guidance on the Top 10 mistakes getting from 0-$100M in ARR. He includes examples from RainforestQA and...
Heavybit Winter Show & Tell
Heavybit’s Show & Tell is an ongoing quarterly event that allows a selection of our 22 member companies a chance to showcase what...
Interview with Nir Eyal: Building Habit Forming Developer Products
Nir Eyal is a teacher at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, contributor to Forbes, advisor to several startups including...
Old School Reading List for New Founders Part 2
In our last post we offers our first attempt at an Old School Reading List for New Founders. Since then, a number of individuals...