evan powell at osen - lessons learned, cards to play

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OSEN: lessons learned

from Open Source

entrepreneurship

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Agenda

- Introduction

- History

- Updated

- Playing cards / “a conceptual framework”

- What’s next?

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Who?

Evan Powell: @epowell101, CEO of CloudByte / OpenEBS

2000-07 2007-2013 2013-2016 2017-????

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History

Patent sharing has a longhistory

1911 legal case opened up patent sharing. By WWII, hundreds of patents were being shared amongst the major auto makers..

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History

The “compilers” of the first UNIVAC systems were distributed freely. Including the A-0 system created by Grace Hopper in 1951.

Hopper, Grace (May 1952). "The Education of a Computer" (PDF). Proceedings of the

Association for Computing Machinery Conference (Pittsburgh) May 1952

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History

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A 5 fold path

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

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A 5 fold path

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

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A 5 fold path

3. Boredom and drudgery are evil

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

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A 5 fold path

3. Boredom and drudgery are evil

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

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A 5 fold path

3. Boredom and drudgery are evil

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

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The default is open, so we won, right?

History has brought us here…..

The default is Open

GitHub is a fundamental force

Coding is too often seen as elitist profession

Today we take for granted perspectives that in the past were the subject of conscious social movements which contained their own

fissures

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Work to be done!

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Software is eating the world.

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Better software. Better “business models.” Money.

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OODA domains

include○ Software development○ Start-ups○ Learning○ National security

John Boyd

Agility vs. Cost

savings

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7 cards u can play

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Service & support

+ Familiar

+ Credible

+ Helps the OSS

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Service & support

+ Familiar

+ Credible

+ Helps the OSS

- Does not scale

- Barrier to entry

- Does it fit?

- Serviceware

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License

+ GPL v 3

+ Dual license

+ Indemnification

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License

+ GPL v 3

+ Dual license

+ Indemnification

- Hostage

users

- Lawyers

- Work-

arounds

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Managed services

+ Services ++

+ Sort of scalable

+ Network

effects?

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Managed services

+ Services ++

+ Sort of scalable

+ Network

effects?

- Security

- Ops NOC

- Break fixish

- Enterprise

integrations

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Enterprise features

+ Simple

+ OSS friendly

+ Enterprise only

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Enterprise features

+ Simple

+ OSS friendly

+ Enterprise only

- Cripple ware

- 3 versions?

- Self

competition

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SaaS capabilities

+ Free 4 ur

info+ SaaS + OODA

+ Naturally not

OSS

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SaaS capabilities

+ Free 4 ur

info+ SaaS + OODA

+ Naturally not

OSS

- Security

- Snowden &

privacy

- Does it fit?

- Enterprise

integration

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Hardware appliances

+ Money

+ Tweaks

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Hardware appliances

+ Money

+ Tweaks

- RMAs

- Margins

- Inventory

- Channel

conflict

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API defacto standard

+ Virtuous

+ Low friction

+ Subtle

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API defacto standard

+ Virtuous

+ Low friction

- Less subtle

- VMware

- Stickiness

- Standardization

+ Subtle

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Other considerations

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What do I want to be when I grow

up?

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Don’t build projects.

Don’t build technology.

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Don’t build projects.

Don’t build technology.

Do a job or jobs for your persona.

Look for consistency - end to end

design.

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Some favorites:Zero to One

The Hard things about Hard things

Anything on double sided markets & lean

start-ups

Radical Candor

Positioning

Michael Porter: Competitive Strategy (5

forces)

James White Manifesto

ChatOps

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Questions?

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