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When Does Open Source Make Sense for a Business?

OpenView Labs

Related podcast episode: How MongoDB Scaled Their Open-Source Product with a Bottom-Up and Top-Down Sales Motion. However, a good question to ask yourself when considering the reduced friction is: Could you get the same benefit with a scaled-back, freemium offering? Are you targeting enterprise or mid-market/SMB?

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After Selling For $580M, Here’s What I Learned About SaaS During My Time At Buildium

Outseta

In this post I’m going to share the most important lessons about growing a SaaS business that I learned at Buildium—collectively, these things had an awful lot to do with the company being valued so highly. I was offered a job as Buildium’s first full-time marketing hire, pulling in a cool $38,400 annually. You read that right—two!