Jay Sivachelvan, VP of Global Partnerships at portfolio company FortressIQ joined Boldstart to chat about how to best establish and scale a partner ecosystem. Our Top Takeaways from Jay The partnership playbook is bespoke. If/when to build out partnerships is often unclear due to the ambiguity around objectives and what it means for any given company. Ideally, partnerships should enable…

Remember to support the full developer experience. “User experience” encompasses all aspects of the end-user’s interaction with the company, its services, and its products. The same applies for developers. If you get everyone to your webpage, it doesn’t help unless they can use the product effectively. Even once you’ve acquired a user, you still need to support…

Seconds is a bit of an exaggeration, but we’ve made it possible to build a full Slack app in less than an hour. You can jump right in (limited number of accounts available — if the link has expired, click here to join the waitlist.) How? Our very first package. We’ve created and released a…

Remember the Magic 8 Ball? Apparently not all of you do, including my colleagues. To correct this injustice, I decided to make a modern version in Slack in Dark.

We’ve just released a demo video of Dark. The demo is building out an office sign in application. You choose who you’re visiting (a host) and sign in with your name. I highly recommend watching the video instead of reading this. But… since the video moves quickly, we wanted…

Today we’re unveiling Dark and moving into private beta. Backends today are too complicated to build. Dark is designed to massively reduce that complexity. Dark is a holistic programming language, editor, and infrastructure for building backends. You write in the Dark language, using the Dark editor, and your program is…

Today we’re announcing that Dark has raised $3.5M in seed funding. We actually raised our funding back in 2017, and have been quietly building Dark for the last two years. Our team has developed a holistic programming language, editor, and infrastructure. You write in the Dark language, using the Dark…

We’re opening up for a couple more alpha users in our residency (so far, we’ve had two people build their business on it through a similar program, see below¹). Dark lets you write a backend really easily, and your infrastructure is set up as soon as you write code. Since…

In 2018, I read 158 books. The way I made this list was by running through my Goodreads and writing down all the books where I thought “ooooh I wish I could have the feeling of reading that again” or “that was really useful.” That resulted in twenty four books…