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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