2017

the story behind the source code.

Here's a look at our first year, by the numbers (with some lessons thrown in in for good measure).

20 clients

In our first year, we worked with 20 clients, from solo entrepreneurs to large enterprise software companies.
118 lyft rides

Home → airport → client's office → coffee shop → record shop → restaurant → other restaurant → third restaurant → client's office → repeat.
11 tartine breakfasts

Espresso and morning buns. Every morning.

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10,000* miles walked

We scientifically measured and we walked around the earth nearly 40 times! *Not true
$37.5 million

Raised by our clients this year in total. Congrats to Backplane, Honeycomb, Humio, Mux, Netlify, and Sensu!
lesson learned
people, people, people

People trump company size, funding history, product maturity, and everything else. It's ALL about the people.
11 website rewrites

If you can tell the story, you can write the website, and that's what it's all about.
10 big ships

Open source, enterprise, SMB, developer focused, finance focused, and so many more inbetween. We shipped our first conference this year, too!

heavybit conference
lesson learned
keep coding

We kept sharp writing scripts in Ruby and R, web apps in Elm, and lots and lots of ... CSS. That surprised us too!
15 brands

A persona, a data driven messaging framework, a lot of talking, and a lot pacing.

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lesson learned
Build for what's next

We keep each other going by focusing on what this will all look like in 3, 5, and 10 years.
Lesson learned
We Scale through our network

We can appear bigger than we are because of the awesome relationships we've built.
thank you for including us in your stories.
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