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Open Source: From Community to Commercialization
The Open Source Renaissance is Underway
The History of Open Source from Free to SaaS
The Virtuous Cycle of Open Source
Business Success Centers on Three Pillars
Choosing a Business Model
The Cloud & Competitive Moats
The Go-to-Market: Open Source is Top-of-Funnel
What Success and Failure Look Like
OSS 3.0 – Open Source is a part of every software company.Auto extracted Text……
And since open source is by definition software that is free for anyone to use, modify, and distribute, open source businesses have required different models and a different go to market than other kinds of software companies.
I’ve been working with open source for many decades, originally as a developer at MIT’s Project Athena and the Open Software Foundation, then as the CEO of the open source company, XenSource.
Once I can host an open source service in the cloud, the user does not know or care if there is open source or proprietary software under the hood, leading to similar valuations of open source and proprietary companies and indicating that open source really has real economic and strategic value.
The more business innovation we have, the larger the developer community, which spurs more technological innovation, which increases the economic incentives for open source.
Project-community fit, where your open source project creates a community of developers who actively contribute to the open source code base.
Product-market fit, where your open source software is adopted by users.
Though not an exhaustive list, open source companies have found value-market fit around features, such as:
Your open source community is a developer-driven top-of-funnel activity.
Building a business is about connecting that open source top-of-funnel to a strong value-driven commercial product.
Developer community management drives awareness and interest in your open source product.
Effective product management leads to a base of users for your free open source product.
leads to a base of users for your free open source product.
Effective product management will execute a number of functions to support this stage: managing the closed and open source roadmaps, communicating the decisions to your developers and users, and building analytics into the product to collect more insights of usage patterns and predict sales opportunities
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