Building Companies that Devs & DevOps Teams Love, And Avoiding Expensive Mistakes

Heavybit by Jesse Robbins · June 25, 2013 · Article

Heavybit talk on the expensive mistakes developer-tools founders make, covering positioning, developer experience, pricing, and go-to-market traps.

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2013 Heavybit talk on the expensive mistakes that catch developer-tools founders, covering positioning, developer experience, pricing, and go-to-market.

A 2013 Heavybit talk covering the expensive mistakes developer-tools founders make across positioning, developer experience, pricing, and go-to-market.

The lessons cover product positioning, developer experience, pricing, and the go-to-market traps that catch technical founders. I made most of these mistakes firsthand building Chef from an open-source project into an enterprise infrastructure company. Learn a dollar of lesson for every one you spend in failure.

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Jesse Robbins

Cofounded Chef and the DevOps movement. Created GameDay at Amazon. Investor in AI developer tools.

Heavybit

Developer-focused venture capital firm

Chef Software

Infrastructure automation company (formerly Opscode)

Amazon

company

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Developer Tools DevOps Engineering Culture Venture Capital Seed Stage Investing

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