We Like Humans, But We LOVE Code (Machine Learning Case Study)
April 16, 2015
The following is a guest post by Jonah Lopin (@jonahlopin), founder at Crayon. Jonah is a HubSpot alumnus, and I'm an angel investor in the company. Here at Crayon, we love humans. In…
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Startups: Stop Trying To Hire Ninja-Rockstar Engineers
August 6, 2012
This is a guest post by Avi Flombaum. Avi is the Dean of The Flatiron School, an intensive program to learn Ruby on Rails in New York. He was formerly the co-founder and CTO at…
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Why PHP Is Fun and Easy But Python Is Marriage Material
October 27, 2010
I think a lot about choices and decisions at startups. That is the life of a software entrerpreneur: It’s a stready stream of hard work, occasionally punctuated by some really hard…
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Releasing Early Is Not Always Good? Heresy!
December 21, 2009
The following is a guest post by Jason Cohen. Jason's got a knack for stirring pots and getting us thinking a bit. And, thinking is a good thing. Even when the thinking makes me…
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What Is The Opposite Of A Vacuum and Should You Develop Software In It?
February 4, 2008
Chances are, that if you've been involved in the creation of software or any kind of product, you've probably heard the advice: "Don't develop in a vacuum". A vacuum is a space that…
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LinkedIn API "Sometime Next Year": 6 Words Of Advice
December 10, 2007
I came across on article on TechCrunch this morning announcing an update on Linkedin. I think it's great that LinkedIn is continuing to talk about an API. But, here's why I believe…
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Startups and The Problem Of Premature Scalaculation
December 3, 2007
Early-Stage Startup: "We've designed the system to handle millions of users and be fault-tolerant so that there is no single point of failure and can assure our users of 99.999%…
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Why You Should (Almost) Never Rewrite Your Software
October 29, 2007
Software startups are fun. In the early days, you have an idea, and a few developers (usually including one of the founders) cranks away and manifests that idea into an application…
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How To Do It Right: 5 Things I Love About the Digg API
June 7, 2007
In December, I started work on a fun little project called Website Grader. Over time, this went from being a fun, little project to a fun, big project. Website Grader basically…
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Marketing In A Web 2.0 World: Why The Best Products Sometimes Win
December 11, 2006
Note: This is a guest article written by Andy Singleton. Andy is a career software professional and is one of the few people I know that can not only talk the talk, but walk the walk.…
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The Most Important Feature Missing In The Google Search API
October 5, 2006
At my startup, HubSpot, we have been working with the Google Search API to implement some of the features we think would help our customers. The Search API is reasonably robust in…
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