From Project to Profit with Heather Meeker

From Project to Profit with Heather Meeker

This week on The Business of Open Source I talked to Heather Meeker, General Partner of OSS Capital and author of From Project to Profit, How to Build a Business around your Open Source Project. We talked about some things that I entirely agree with, and then there were some points I challenged Heather on — all in all, it was fabulous conversation.


Here’s what we covered:


  • Why you should think of your project and product as two different products so you avoid thinking of your open source project as a loss leader and get your incentives right
  • The differences between supplementary and complementary products, and how the relationship between project and product is often complementary, even in situations where that relationship is non-obvious
  • We disagreed about pricing — should COSS businesses have cheaper products than closed-source companies?
  • Why cares about your being open source?
  • Are open source companies more capital efficient? Heather says so, but I’m not convinced.
  • Heather also talked about how they select companies to invest in
  • Do open source companies by definition do a better job at paying attention to user / customer demand?


Check out the episode, and check out more about Heather Meeker here:


Personal website

OSS Capital

LinkedIn

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