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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The Power User’s Guide to Open-Source Licenses
Licensing: A Key Trade-Off for Open Source Startups Why is Heavybit putting together this guide for open-source startup founders...
How to Launch an AI Startup: Lessons from GitHub Copilot
Getting 1.2M Devs to Adopt Your AI Product GitHub Copilot is one of the most talked-about AI coding assistants on the market. As...
Using Brain Chemistry to Build 0-to-1 Developer Communities
How Developer Communities Benefit from Brain Chemicals I’ve worked as a developer advocate for many years, but in some ways, I...
How To Hire And Work With Lawyers At Your Startup: Advice For Early-Stage Founders From A General Counsel
How to Hire a Startup Lawyer Hiring an experienced startup lawyer is one of the first things a founder should do when thinking...
Personal Branding for Founders
Why Personal Branding? A lot of founders I’ve spoken to, especially those of us who are technical, bristle at the idea of...
Incident Response and DevOps in the Age of Generative AI
How Does Generative AI Work With Incident Response? Software continues to eat the world, as more dev teams depend on third-party...
Growing Together: Building Ecosystems to Grow PLG Startups
How to Build an Ecosystem to Support Product-Led Growth Any time you build a strategy for any org at a product-led growth (PLG)...
Three Key Best Practices for Modern Incident Response
Incident management refers to the process that a company takes to detect, act upon, and resolve issues with their software...
How LLM Guardrails Reduce AI Risk in Software Development
How LLM Guardrails Minimize the Risks of AI in Software Development Integrating Language Learning Models (LLMs) into software...
Emerging Legal Challenges for Open Source in the Age of AI
Defensibility and AI-Related Legal Issues for Open Source Open-source software has been called “the most positive and...
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...
Orbit Just Went Live, Here’s Why It’s a Big Deal
Heavybit led Orbit’s pre-Seed round just over 18 months ago and as of writing this post, the team just launched to the general...