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Open source startups with growing communities benefit from passionate people, early signals of PMF, and an existing user base
Early-stage open source startups have an advantage over non-open-source startups. Popular projects that grow quickly benefit from early product-market fit indications, a community of passionate people, and an existing user base to experiment with.
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AGPL license is a non-starter for most companies
The AGPL was designed to close a loophole in the GPL and protect free and open source software from being abused by SaaS providers. But the license is poorly defined making most companies unable to adopt AGPL-licensed software.
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In-person marketing events are overvalued
Startup founders are inclined to spend tons of money on in-person events when content marketing is a much more effective way to do early marketing.
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KEDA maintainer Zbynek Roubalik launches Kedify: Enterprise autoscaling for Kubernetes
Built around the recently graduated CNCF project KEDA, Kedify aims to provide efficient, cost-effective, and hassle-free autoscaling for enterprises.
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Open core split should be based on features, not on code base
Open core needs a predictable way to decide what is open source versus what is proprietary. We argue that this should be based on what the features do, not where the code lives.
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