Category Archives: Community
Personal Productivity for Developers
As a SendGrid Developer Evangelist, a primary objective is to help make the lives of developers easier. To this end, our Developer Evangelist team examines our APIs and external resources from the view point of our users. From the novice to the expert, patterns emerge over time. One of those patterns I continue to witness is the lack of true “Zone” time. Creation requires a sustained effort to truly realize its potential. This post is designed to help you create more “Zone” time, igniting your passion for innovation. The spirit of this blog post is derived from the talk of…
READ MORE »SendGrid Welcomes Emerging Tech Community in Vegas
SendGrid wanted to explore the burgeoning startup tech scene in Las Vegas which culminated in a full day of events to welcome our community there and talk tech, code, startups and email. We also wanted to recruit from the local pool of talent for our many job openings here at SendGrid. We began with a special tour of Zappos where our group included SendGrid’s Isaac Saldana, Co-founder and President, and Mike Rowan, VP of R&D. We got to see some of the inner workings of the Zappos offices and the crazy interior they built as a visual presence of their…
READ MORE »SendGrid Delivered 2012 Wraps Up in Denver
SendGrid Denver has now been open for about a month and already, we’ve seen a huge crowd at the Denver Startup Crawl, an intimate lunch and learn with a presentation from our CEO on investing in startups, and an engaged group of entrepreneurs at SendGrid Delivered. With all the involved members of the local tech community, Denver was the perfect city to wrap up this year’s tour. We had a little something for everyone at SendGrid Delivered, Denver: whether you were there to learn about how to use our new newsletter, listen to the experts about how to increase your…
READ MORE »Customer Success Story: Developer Marketplace, Binpress Spends 97.5% Less Time Administering Email With SendGrid
Binpress, a discovery service for high-quality source-code packages for developers, was already aware of the headaches associated with email delivery when they first started their company. They started as a web shop and as part of their services, deployed email on behalf of their customers. It was then they learned how important email delivery was to the success of their campaigns and how time consuming managing it could actually be. So, when they opened the doors to Binpress, the founders started with a key premise in mind – look for a cloud based service that could easily integrate with their…
READ MORE »Startup Weekend Manchester Paves the Way
Startup Weekend hit Manchester for the first time this weekend as part of the Global Startup Battle – the largest community organised startup event in the world with over 130 cities around the world hosting events over 2 consecutive weekends. Held at Manchester’s soon-to-open TechHub, the event attracted about 60 people from all over the UK. An eager bunch who all turned up ready to pitch, form a team, build something over the 54-ish hours and see if they would emerge victorious on Sunday evening as the winner with the opportunity to carry on developing and competing in London the…
READ MORE »Customer Success Story: IndiGo Car Hire Increased Revenue by Improving Their Delivery Metrics
IndiGo Car Hire specializes in providing U.K. car and van hire at over 17,000 holiday destinations worldwide including Spain, France, Dubai and the USA. They send over 300,000 emails per month delivering sales promotions, reservation confirmations, modifications and cancellations. As a broker, they rely on email to help earn new business and drive ongoing customer loyalty. However, low delivery rates were negatively impacting their sales and retention rates.
READ MORE »SendGrid Travels to espnW Hackathon At Stanford with O’Reilly Books
This weekend ESPN is holding it’s first public hackathon. espnW is focused on attracting women developers to the event to build on several API’s including ESPN, Twilio, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Current numbers from organizers show 70% of registered attendees are women. We’re happy to announce that O’Reilly has reached out and will be giving a free ebook to each registered attendee for espnW! Come by the Mashery table to select your book. We’ve included a list of books relevant to designing web applications, programming languages, web design, mobile apps, big data management, open source for enterprise and more! Adria…
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