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Levine: a16z Strongly Prefers Funding Open-Source Project Leaders
“As investors, we are strongly biased towards funding project leaders since they own the project, they know the product roadmap and can lead the product roadmap and know the code base inside and out.”
Peter Levine Oct 21, 2019 ▶ 4:18 How to Build an Open Source Business
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Levine: a16z Portfolio Startups Use Developer-First Wedge Strategy
“What we see are many of our startup companies now deliberately selling to developers as the first wedge point into an organization.”
Peter Levine Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:48 a16z Podcast | Selling to Developers & Open Source Business Models
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Levine: Only 25 Percent of XenSource Downloads Resulted in Actual Usage
“We originally put in our KPIs, we are going to measure downloads, but what we learned is about half the downloads never completed, and of those half that were completed, only about half were ever used by the user”
Peter Levine Oct 21, 2019 ▶ 14:30 How to Build an Open Source Business
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