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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.

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7 Lessons Helping Start Pardot, SalesLoft and Calendly (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

SalesLoft obviously is more sophisticated, has a CFO, has an FP&A function, and the big difference that we never got to on the Pardot side that SalesLoft has been doing for years is taking your aggregate metrics and breaking it down by segments. 10,000 bonus for referring a software engineer. And it worked great.