We talked about:
- Bela's background
- Why startups even need investors
- Why open source is a viable go-to-market strategy
- Building a bottom-up community
- The investment thesis for the TKM Family Office and the blurriness of the funding round naming convention
- Angel investors vs VC Funds vs family offices
- Bela's investment criteria and GitHub stars as a metric
- Inbound sourcing, outbound sourcing, and investor networking
- Making a good impression on an investor
- Balancing open and closed source parts of a product
- The future of open source
- Recent successes of open source companies
- Bela's resource recommendations
Links:
- Understand who is engaging with your open source project article: https://www.crowd.dev/
- Top 6 Books on Developer Community Building: https://www.crowd.dev/post/top-6-books-on-developer-community-building
- Which open source software metrics matter: https://www.bvp.com/atlas/measuring-the-engagement-of-an-open-source-software-community#Which-open-source-software-metrics-matter
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