The Joeism Blog

Last Thursday night Bronto hosted a Tweetup at its offices. Tweetup is a gathering of Twitter fans and enthusiasts. The event was a big success with over 200 attendees. And, as you can imagine it was very well covered in the the twitter-sphere.
Special thanks to Brontos Adam Covati and Caroline Smith for organizing the event. [...]

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Three years ago Bronto moved into a 4500 square foot office space on the American Tobacco Campus of Durham, North Carolina. We had 15 people and it seemed like we would never fill up the space. 30 people later at 45 people it was a very different story. So, over a year ago, we [...]

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Yesterday was a strange day.
Yesterday the Women’s Professional Billiards Association descended on the American Tobacco Campus for the Carolina Classic 9-Ball Tournament. To kickoff the tournament, the world’s top 12  women players teamed up with amateurs to play in a pre-tournament ProAm contest. Fortunately, Chaz and I got to be two of the amateurs.
The evening [...]

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Bronto was featured in this week’s Triangle Business Journal (TBJ). The TBJ used an old picture of Chaz and me from a couple years ago. Fortunately, I am proudly wearing my Bronto belt buckle.
The article is fairly short and speaks broadly about our growth.
You can read the full article on their website or inline below:

Durham’s [...]

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We’re looking for talented software developers over at Bronto. The best and brightest kind of thing. As part of our recruitment effort, we thought that it would be helpful to put together a short YouTube video. One thing led to another, especially on a Friday afternoon, and presto … we have one. It’s pretty good [...]

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Bronto is on the move and we’ve won some notable awards lately. Here’s a rundown:
Earlier this month Karalyn and I went to the awards ceremony for the Triangle Business Journal’s Top 40 Under 40. The event was good and like a very big wedding. In presenting the awards, the announcer ran through a short [...]

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Bronto is hiring and we’re hosting an Open House at our headquarters to meet potential candidates. So, if you are interested in Bronto or simply curious about where we work. please stop by.
Here are the details:

WHAT: Open House for Bronto Software
WHERE: Bronto HQ @ American Tobacco Campus (Durham, NC)
WHEN: 5:30 PM to 8 PM
HOW: RSVP [...]

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Yesterday I received an unexpected call from Ben Niolet of the News & Observer to comment on a story related to the Charlotte mayor running for Governor of North Carolina.
Apparently the major’s campaign sent an email announcing his run and accidentally misspelled governor in the message’s masthead. Initially, the campaign blamed it on a hacker [...]

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I spent this evening drilling through hundreds of resumes for the many of open positions that we have at Bronto Software. As CEO, I like to be on the front lines of hiring because bringing great people into the company is one of the most important things that I can do — Always Be Recruiting, [...]

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