5 Tricks to Bootstrap Your Open-Source Community
In conversations with founders, one question came up repeatedly: "How do you build a community around an open-source project?"…
In conversations with founders, one question came up repeatedly: "How do you build a community around an open-source project?"…
Focus on finding project-market-fit before moving on to building a proprietary product. The proprietary product builds on the success of the project.…
Blogging has been an exciting experience so far. After writing about a simple framework for building Open Core businesses, I wanted to explore why Open Core is the better model (compared to Red Hat’s “Stable Release” approach). I didn’t do it, because I ended up writing about market…
Red Hat is often mentioned as the “original” open source vendor. Yet, nobody who applied the Red Hat model became a runaway success.…
Open core has a “built-in conflict” between the open source project, the community, and the commercial vendor. Managing this conflict properly is crucial for the success of your company. It will help tremendously if you derive what goes into open source vs. what’s proprietary from first principles.…
1on1s aren’t rocket science. Yet, it still makes sense to put a basic structure in place.…
Elastic is growing faster than its peers, on top of higher absolute numbers. Particularly the last 2–3 quarters before the S-1 filings are outstanding. That’s both promising, as well as setting high expectations for the post-IPO results.…
Bloomberg’s article caught my eye, and I looked into how GitHub is performing. All metrics are from Eric Newcomer’s Bloomberg article and tweets.…