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Re:Getting to your first 100 customers on Thursday March 02, 2017 @02:20PM (#13777282)
Really like how she just spreadsheets it and lays it out for everyone
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015) on Friday May 01, 2015 @07:06PM (#9475065)
SF-Based Company: Heavybit seeks a FT onsite event manager with 5+ years experience to help design and plan developer community events and rally the community. If you've got a background in tech event management, developer evangelism and/or community building we're looking for you. We can do H1-B transfers + Greencard transfers.

About Heavybit: Started by Heroku founder James Lindenbaum, we're a 9 month program for developer co's like RainforestQA, KeenIO and Iron.io.

Job Listing: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/60157128?trk=biz-overvie...

Re:Startups fighting over the word 'zen' on Friday December 19, 2014 @06:59PM (#8775256)
It surprises me that the company is moving forward with this, when they're so known for being cool in other areas like community programs. http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2014/02/28/twitter-tax-break-be...

It just seems like they're so clearly the most well known "Zen" brand out there. And if this whole thing is about branding, then why not focus on the defensibility of the product rather than the name? Am I being naive here?

Ask HN: What Old School Essays and Reading Would You Recommend to New Founders?

A couple nights ago I found out that only 2 of the founders I work with had ever read The Cathedral & The Bazaar and the Cluetrain Manifesto. Along with those other two I've added The Agile Manifesto, The Mythical Man-Month and the Pragmatic Programmer. (rationale here: http://blog.heavybit.com/blog/2014/12/10/old-school-reading-list). What old school reading would you recommend for a new...

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Re:Performance and Opportunities of HTTP 2.0 on Tuesday October 14, 2014 @12:43AM (#8452000)
Just posted the slideshare for this here: http://www.slideshare.net/heavybit/heavybit-presents-ilya-gr...
Re:Move Fast, Don't Break Your API on Friday October 10, 2014 @03:22PM (#8439553)
Amber also did this as a presentation at Heavybit if you're interested in seeing it http://www.heavybit.com/library/developer-technical/video/20...
I suppose this sort of thing sadly isn't surprising but I'd hate for it to overshadow the good and important things coming out of the Grace Hopper Conference. Hoping more of that comes to light.
This is awesome! It took us a while to build this and we've still got a number of upcoming features we're working on. Thanks for this!
Re:Cloudant's Journey from Y Combinator to IBM Acquisition on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @01:49PM (#8203471)
So yesterday was YC demo day. Interested to hear if other YC founders and alum have learned similar things?

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