It was an eventful day on Thursday 18th March. I had a chance to be part of open house meeting of HubSpot. It was a mix of business networking and chance to meet CEO of HubSpot, Brian Halligan . Brian had some very good points on why one should focus on Inbound marketing these days , citing example of Barrack Obama’s presidential campaign. He also recalled his days when they started hubspot out of MIT and how tough it was in the early days. I really liked his passion of creating an successful company on East Coast , one block away from his Alma matter , MIT.

Brian also held a small contest with all the invitees .  The invitees  will pick a site and if the site rates well on Hubspot Website Grader tool which, the winner stands to win  the book , Inbound marketing authored by Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah. I named Skill-Guru and was surprised to see that it scored 93 points on the website grader. Look at the results below.

I would say that I was pleasantly surprised to see this good rank for Skill-Guru.  The Skill-Guru results allowed me to won an autographed copy of the Inbound Marketing book by Brian.

I wanted to meet Dharmesh, who is co founder and CTO of Hubspot. I had been following his blog onStartups and a big fan on him but did not get a chance. May be next time.

Dharmesh , I have started reading your book and really liked what I have read so far. Great Stuff !