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So it is the first day back from vacation and the first day at HubSpot's new office in the Davenport building.  Check out the new office below before people move in and make it their own.

Here is another funny little HubSpot video for you with me playing a little role. 

Nothing to really say about this one.  Watch it or don't watch it...  I don't even care anymore.

If you do watch it, I hope that you like it.

So I'm actually starting to get a little comfortable hosting HubSpot.TV and last friday was my third chance to sit in and co-host the show.  Also feel free to check out all the show notes.

On Friday Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone came to HubSpot in marking our 3rd Twitter approach to getting celebrities to visit our little office in Cambridge.  So before The story and controversy of the even it well documented on twitter using the #bizinboston hashtag.  I won't get into all that, but I will share some pictures that I took of the event.  Enjoy!

So yesterday Mike Volpe took the day off his normal co-hosting seat at HubSpot.TV and Karen Rubin asked me to try and fill Mike's literally larger than life shoes.  I think I held my own, but be the judge for yourself by watching the show.  For full notes of the show check them out at the HubSpot TV - Marketing March Madness page. 

Wow what a wild last week at HubSpot. Long work days into the night, but that's more of the norm now than the exception. I'm not complaining, "it simply is what it is". Between these two events on Thursday and Friday it became obvious a blog post was in order.

HubSpot 1K Customer Party

That's right HubSpot crossed the 1,000 customer plateau and that meant time to have a celebration with the customer base. I'm really not sure of the exact turnout but I was on Photographer duty and brought Rock Band for some good time at work including this "EPIC" performance by Ben Smith.

Enjoy these photos from the event.

MC Hammer makes an appearance on HubSpot TV

So some of the guys got on Twitter and asked @MCHammer to stop by the studio and make an appearance and what about him actually doing it! I spent most of the event attempting to answer support calls over the massive cheering and but did hear this quote with everyone else:

"forget the numbers, just be interesting." -MC Hammer

So cool! I snapped a few pictures of the event, but this has to be the gem.

For more information about either of these events be sure to checkout HubSpot's Company Blog.

• Good Times For All at HubSpot 1K Customer Party
• MC Hammer Drops by for Camera Time on HubSpot.TV
  

On Sunday we had our first meetup of "The Hub".  So what is The Hub?  The Hub is our HubSpot band in Rock Band.  Yes we also invite guest musicians and groupies, but for the most part the band is made up of HubSpot Rock Stars.  The roster yesterday of famous twitterholics included:

• Rebecca Corliss - Singing Marketing star by Day
  
• Kyle Paice - Expert Marketing Consultant of Impossible Problems
• Dan Abdinoor - Extreme Programming Developer
• Ellie Mirman - Warrior Princess of Social Media
• Patrick Fitzsimmons - Quiet White Knight of Bug Squashing
• Lara Simpson - Band Groupie and PR Handler of Ancient Lore
  
• TJ Hrabota - Band Groupie and Builder of things Majestic
  

Lead Singer Patrick Fitzsimmons and his Pipes

Drummer Extraordinaire - Dan Abdinoor

The Hub - Jammin' to some Oasis

So the remaining question is should we build a Rock Band Grader or focus more of our energy on getting Classic Rock Legend and Chief guru extraordinaire Brian Halligan to play an epic set with the band? Stay tunes for more updates from this upcoming group.  Hope that you enjoy the pictures and video as much as we did making it!

Picture Shoot

I don't know how I didn't pick up on this yesterday, but me going to HubSpot was picked up on ReadWriteWeb's JobWire. So yeah right there after a major Microsoft hiring and before Simply Hired names a Senior VP is KYLE JAMES! :-D

So not only is that really cool, but picked up some good backlinks... always looking at the SEO side of things.