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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How to Launch a Dev-First Startup: Community & Leadership
Welcome to the second article in our definitive series on how to launch a developer-first startup, featuring advice from veteran...
Open Source vs. Proprietary: Development, Licensing, Business Models, and More
Open Source vs. Proprietary: Development, Licensing, Business Models, Security, and More Open-source software (OSS) is free to...
Roundup: HB Talks featuring Forbes’ 2020 Cloud 100
Earlier today, Forbes in partnership with Bessemer Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures, announced its annual ranking of the...

What to Read Before 2020: The Best DevTools Content from the Heavybit Library
Whether you’ve got a long plane, train or car ride home for the holidays, or if you’re just ready to take a breather, the end of...
How to Launch a Dev-First Startup: First Principles
Welcome to the first article in our definitive series on how to launch a developer-first startup, featuring advice from veteran...

Building Strong, Resilient, and Sustainable Organizations
The strongest and most resilient orgs are those that simultaneously 1) manage debt, organizational and technical, in a...
The Developer Content Mind Trick for Signature Content
Adam DuVander is a developer, marketer, and founder of EveryDeveloper. He helps great dev tool companies reach more of the right...

Buy vs. Build: Turning Critics into Champions
LaunchDarkly’s Edith Harbaugh shares her experience selling and marketing to developers who would rather “build vs buy” a...

Technical & Cultural Learnings from 10 Years of Computing
What the Software Community Has Learned from 10 Years in Tech Amara’s Law states, “We tend to overestimate the effect of a...
Recommended Listening: Our Favorite Podcasts from 2020
Editor’s Note: Over the last couple of years, podcasting has become a booming industry, and 2020’s shift from in-person...
Sales Prospecting for Founders: Tips from Mitch Morando
In a members-only session with SaaS sales leader Mitch Morando, Heavybit member companies learned how to kick off founder-led...

The Founder’s Guide to First Sales Hires
Technical startups sometimes believe that they don’t (and won’t ever) need a sales team. But if your aspirations include selling...