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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 »Improve The Value of Your Marketing and Transactional Email With Our New Advanced Statistics Reporting
We are very excited to announce that we are releasing 4 new reports—Device, Browser, Geographical, and ISP—into public beta today. The reports will be available in our advanced statistics interface and were built to provide our customers with the ability to better understand how and where their customers are interacting with their emails. These new reports join other email performance metrics that we already provide like open, click, and unsubscribe rates. Armed with all of this data, our customers can now make more informed decisions about how, when, and where their email is most effective at meeting user acquisition, user…
READ MORE »Introducing SendGrid Labs and its free application load testing service, Loader.io
SendGrid Labs is a new and growing internal effort at SendGrid. Born in late 2012, SendGrid Labs builds tools and services to help developers focus on their core business. It aims to provide creative and innovative solutions to common developer pain points to make their lives easier, and to help them scale. SendGrid is the ideal platform for an initiative like Labs, because it already solves a major developer pain point—email deliverability, infrastructure, and scalability. Like every other tech company, SendGrid has experienced growing pains, and has had to utilize tools like those being generated at SendGrid Labs to help…
READ MORE »2013 SendGrid Kickoff in Mexico
Last week, SendGrid celebrated its 2013 kickoff event in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Four days of team building, goal setting, and yes…sun and sand. SendGrid has offices in Anaheim, Boulder, Denver, Romania, San Francisco, NYC, London and Berlin, so it’s great for us all to come together once a year to reflect on the year before and to gear up for what’s ahead. Friday night started off with a kickoff dinner overlooking the beach that included lots of good food, laughs, and…dancing. Lots of dancing. Pictures are excluded to protect the worst (or best?) offenders–but let’s just say, SendGrid has some…
READ MORE »Infographic: 2012 in Review
What an exceptional year it was for SendGrid. The infographic below highlights all of the most important milestones. When I started in July of 2010 as employee #36, I could have never imagined that in just a year and a half later, we would be a company of over 100 people, sending more than 7 billion emails in a single month with over 100,000 customers. I’m extremely proud to be part of an organization that puts resources into growth, innovation and the happiness of our employees. It truly is a unique place to work with a focus on the 4H…
READ MORE »Get Delivered @Gmail – 5 Tips to Get You to the Inbox
Gmail is now the most popular mailbox provider on the planet, and to that end they keep their technology very close to the vest by running a self sustained system that does not partner with any other entities or utilize some of the common tools like whitelisting and feedback loops adopted by other ISPs. As a result, it’s sometimes difficult for senders to troubleshoot and navigate through Gmail delivery failures. However, they do provide some guidance to help prevent your messages from being marked as spam. Here are five tactics you can use to ensure delivery at Gmail. Get added…
READ MORE »Codecademy Launches New Lessons for SendGrid APIs
Today, Codecademy launched a partnership with SendGrid and nine other companies to help novice developers learn how to leverage APIs to create new projects, sites, and apps. SendGrid has always been dedicated to making developers’ lives easier with flexible, well-documented APIs. With the launch of Codecademy’s API lessons, learning to integrate with SendGrid has become even easier. Now, new developers can get a step by step tutorial on how to send email with SendGrid without having to just rely on our documentation. Codecademy has been an amazing resource for people to learn the basics of programming, and the addition of…
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