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Heavybit Expands Partnership, Deepens Expertise and Support for Developer Companies
Heavybit, a program that helps startups take developer products to
market, announced today the addition of Dana Oshiro as General Partner.
Oshiro joins existing Managing Director Tom Drummond to further build
Heavybit's advisory network and support developer product companies in
their go-to-market strategy.
To support Heavybit's growing portfolio, Heavybit has also announced
Chef and Velocity Conference Founder Jesse Robbins and Librato Founder
Joe Ruscio have joined Heroku Founder James Lindenbaum as Part-time
Partners. As Part-time Partners, the trio will regularly work with the
founders of new and prospective member companies both to increase the
value of Heavybit members and to grow Heavybit's portfolio of over 30
developer product companies.
"There's a right way to take developer products to market and it's tough
and evolving," said Heavybit's Drummond. "That's why we're excited to
add partners with deep domain expertise and recent wins in developer
companies. It's their timely and industry-specific advice that we hope
will mold the next Twilio (News - Alert) or New Relic."
New Partners:
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Dana Oshiro, General Partner: Since joining in 2012 as Director of
Programs, Oshiro has helped build Heavybit's curriculum, operations
and team. In the past she has held positions at Code from America,
Heroku and Salesforce while also contributing to tech publications
ReadWrite and entureBeat. As a General Partner she'll continue to
support member companies and drive Heavybit's curriculum and advisory
network.
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Jesse Robbins, Part-time Partner: Robbins is founder of Orion Labs,
Chef and the Velocity Conference where he helped ignite the DevOps
movement. He is widely recognized for helping transform the way
companies like Amazon, Facebook and Google (News - Alert) manage complex systems and
infrastructure. His experience creating successful companies, building
large developer communities, and growing startup revenues have already
been helpful in advising Heavybit companies.
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Joseph Ruscio, Part-time Partner: Ruscio was a founder and CTO of
Librato, a Heavybit alumni company that was successfully acquired by
SolarWinds (News - Alert). He was a key contributor to all aspects of the business
and from inception responsible for product vision, development,
operations, and customer success. He now runs development and
operation of multiple SaaS (News - Alert) developer products at SolarWinds. Ruscio
has been a long-time contributor to the Heavybit community and brings
in-depth experience in go-to-market, scaling organizations and
fundraising.
Since launching in 2012, Heavybit has worked with 32 developer startups
including Stripe, PagerDuty, CircleCI and a number of other rising
developer companies. The program accepts members on a rolling basis and
those interested in applying can visit heavybit.com/program
for more details.
ABOUT HEAVYBIT: Heavybit helps startups turn products loved by
developers into successful businesses. During the program, we work on
everything from finding product market fit to sales tactics and customer
development. Heavybit is based in San Francisco and program graduates
include Stripe, PagerDuty, CircleCI and other rising developer-focused
companies. For more info visit http://heavybit.com
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