Posts about Close – Phil Freo

2025

Settings & UI CruftJuly 24
Management Sabbatical: Maker TimeJune 24
Paris RetreatMay 20
LogRocket Leader Spotlight: Hiring and Scaling a Remote-First TeamApril 23

2023

On The Tech Trek: Retention for Engineering TeamsNovember 7
Speed Matters in RecruitingSeptember 8
Async WeeksMarch 10

2022

Mini-RetreatDecember 20

2021

SabbaticalsAugust 13
Running an Async All-HandsMay 17

2020

Support Knows the Product Best (and How to Make Engineers Know It Too)April 8
Using Lambda@Edge to setup server-side redirects on a Cloudfront+S3 static siteFebruary 12

2019

How I got recruited to work at CloseAugust 26

2017

My InsideSalesSummit interview: How sales and engineering teams should work togetherNovember 16
How to log Feature RequestsOctober 24

2015

Don’t punish old trials and former customersAugust 7
The last 20% before shippingMay 23
Solve multiple problems at onceMarch 14

2014

How one of my tweets landed Close.io a $585/month customerDecember 9
My interview on Sales4Startups about Close.ioApril 15

2013

Render a PDF from html using xhtml2pdf and mimerender in FlaskJune 21
Sweating the UI & UX details in Close.io: Emails & Email AddressesJune 21
The problem with pull requests / code reviewsMay 1
The startups and services behind Close.ioFebruary 19
Press around Close.ioFebruary 19

2012

How to unit test AJAX Requests with QUnit and Sinon.JSDecember 18
How to allow direct file uploads from JavaScript to Amazon S3 signed by PythonDecember 10
Launched Close.io – sales communication softwareDecember 1