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When Does Open Source Make Sense for a Business?

OpenView Labs

Many companies are strategic consumers of open-source software as a means to reduce the burden on their software engineering team to build everything from the ground up. The answer likely depends on your market segmentation, as freemium may ease adoption friction for SMB/mid-market companies. You’ll compete with yourself.

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How to Find Product-Market-Sales Fit

Andreessen Horowitz

Bansal shares this and other key milestones and frameworks for company building in conversation with a16z general partner Peter Levine; enterprise deal team partner Satish Talluri (who was a director of product and growth operations there); and Sonal Chokshi. When should companies offer services? the night before it was to IPO).