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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. In light of the sale of Buildium last month I figured now is as good of a time as any to reflect on the most important ones.

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When Does Open Source Make Sense for a Business?

OpenView Labs

Other businesses, like LinkedIn and Netflix, have strong histories of being producers of open-source projects, which provides a strategic recruitment and retention tool for top-tier engineering talent. Related podcast episode: How MongoDB Scaled Their Open-Source Product with a Bottom-Up and Top-Down Sales Motion.