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TechStars Military Veteran Boot Camp Applications Due May 31
Startup accelerator TechStars wants to encourage military veterans to start businesses. Veterans are traditionally under-represented amongst startup founders. TechStars aims to change that with its three day boot camp aimed at veterans and spouses of veterans. The application deadline is May 31. Over 75 veterans participated in the previous iteration of the boot camp last year. TechStars mentors, alumni and technology leaders will help participants hone their business idea, investment pitch and accelerator applications. The curriculum includes presentations from experts and one-on-one mentoring that culminates in each attendee giving a short presentation about their startup. Patriot Boot Camp will take…
READ MORE »SendGrid Delivered Wraps Up Spring Tour in Boston With an All-Star Speaker Line-Up
The final stop on our spring SendGrid Delivered tour was the vibrant, beautiful city of Boston. It was an exciting opportunity for us to connect with the city’s growing entrepreneurial community and with all the American business institutions that call Boston home. We hosted the event at the State Room, so outstanding views of the city and harbor served as our backdrop for the day. We had a full day of engaging sessions, real-time demos, and great conversations with our attendees and were also very lucky to have an all-star line-up of presenters from HubSpot, Keen IO, and SendGrid Labs.…
READ MORE »The GridIron Mashup (SendGrid + Iron.io = love, flowers, ice-cream, and profits)
Mashups tend to showcase interesting use cases of APIs in which the sum is greater than the parts. They offer increased productivity at reduced costs. Work flows that once required additional resources now become superfluous. By leveraging multiple SaaS solutions in a single application, we get all this plus the technology benefits of two focused providers. What better company to showcase such a mashup than Iron.io? Their message queue and worker APIs allow 3rd parties to create asynchronous and scalable architectures. Also, just like SendGrid they have webhooks that allow for an event driven workflow. Introducing GridIron SendGrid and Iron.io…
READ MORE »SendGrid Delivered Goes International
After presenting in 6 cities across the US (NYC, San Francisco, Denver, Austin, Seattle, and Boston) we are thrilled to be taking our SendGrid Delivered tour across the pond in June. Our travels will bring us to London (June 4) Berlin (June 7) and Paris (June 11). So why should you join us on this leg of the tour? Here are the Top 10 Reasons you should become an Inbox Insider and join us at SendGrid Delivered in Europe next month. Top 10 Reasons to Attend SendGrid Delivered International 1. Get the inside scoop on all things email from top…
READ MORE »Learn How To Stay Out of the Spam Folder in 90 Seconds!
As SendGrid Developer Evangelist, Elmer Thomas says “If your email doesn’t make it to the inbox, you are talking to yourself. Not cool.” Every email you send has to contend with the dreaded spam folder and sadly, 1/5 of them lose the battle. What kind of email are we talking about? Confirmations, reminders, shipping notifications, receipts, password resets, and more. So how can you help your email win this fight? We know that sometimes trying to ensure that your email stays out of the spam folder can seem like a big task. So to help you remember the best practices…
READ MORE »SendGrid Supports Hack4Colorado
The following is a guest post from SendGrid’s Events Team. We’re excited to be sponsoring and providing mentorship at the upcoming inaugural Hack4Colorado (part of the National Day of Civic Hacking) this May 31-June 2nd at Galvanize. We’re always looking for the next great idea, app, or startup to spring forth from the great minds of the Colorado entrepreneurial community, and this hackday presents the perfect storm for that discovery. On June 1st and 2nd over 5,000 hackers will be participating in 87 events across the country to “collaboratively create, build, and invent using publicly-released data, code, and technology to…
READ MORE »What’s Forging Now in England’s ‘Steel City’?
One of the really great parts about being a Developer Evangelist at SendGrid is getting to meet with companies when they’re just a touch more than an idea. I get to do this a lot thanks to the SendGrid Accelerate programme that supports accelerators, startup incubators and co-working spaces around the world. Along with providing companies technical help with SendGrid integrations we get asked to spend some time talking to the companies in these programmes and answer questions about anything we have knowledge about. I’ve been asked everything from architecting an out of the gate server setup that would scale,…
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