Mo's Blog About Open Source, SaaS, Startups

I’m AI-pilled, bullish on what we can already do today and incredibly excited about what might be possible tomorrow.

Many people think of MongoDB as the prime example of how to transform from a legacy software vendor to a modern cloud or SaaS vendor.

In conversations with founders, one question came up repeatedly: “How do you build a community around an open-source project?”

You can find an endless number of blog posts, conferences talks, and podcasts on fundraising for technology startups.

Blogging has been an exciting experience so far.

Last week, I wrote about how to best monetize with an Open Core model.

Compared to a few years ago, there’s no doubt that open source vendors can be financially successful.

Looking back now, it’s easy to admit that we had no clue how to manage and run a company when we started Codeship at the end of 2010.

Photo Credit: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg After Pivotal’s IPO in April, Elastic ($ESTC) is the second developer-focused open source company that went public this year.

This is an old blog post of mine that I published on Medium in the past and migrated over to moritzplassnig.com recently.

I wrote a shorter version of this blog post for entrepreneur.com a while ago: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/254430 The longer I’m involved in Codeship (the company I co-founded), the more other founders I mentor, the more I’m convinced that people a…