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Talend - the Next Cloud Success Story?

Talend - the Next Cloud Success Story?

a month ago 10 min read company analysisopen sourceopen coretalend
Talend did a fantastic job in their first arc - building an open-source community, monetizing its proprietary product, and going public. Their second arc is all about reinventing themselves as a cloud/SaaS vendor, and so far, it’s going much better than their stock would indicate.
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Moritz Plassnig
By: Moritz Plassnig
5 Tricks to Bootstrap Your Open-Source Community

5 Tricks to Bootstrap Your Open-Source Community

2 months ago 7 min read open sourcecommunity
In conversations with founders, one question came up repeatedly: "How do you build a community around an open-source project?"
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Moritz Plassnig
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Fundraising for Open Source Startups

Fundraising for Open Source Startups

7 months ago 8 min read fundraisingopen source
Focus on finding project-market-fit before moving on to building a proprietary product. The proprietary product builds on the success of the project.
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Moritz Plassnig
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SaaS and Moving Downmarket - MongoDB’s Transformation

SaaS and Moving Downmarket - MongoDB’s Transformation

7 months ago 13 min read mongodbcompany analysisopen sourceopen core
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
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Moritz Plassnig
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Red Hat’s Business Model was an Outlier

Red Hat’s Business Model was an Outlier

7 months ago 3 min read red hatopen sourcestable release
Red Hat is often mentioned as the “original” open source vendor. Yet, nobody who applied the Red Hat model became a runaway success.
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Moritz Plassnig
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