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Joseph (JJ) Jacks for COSS Community

Jul 27

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COSS Weekly #39

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Joseph (JJ) Jacks

Nov 14 '20

Rise of the Open Source IPO

#ipo #companybuilding

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Joseph (JJ) Jacks for COSS Community

Nov 12 '20

Welcome Thread

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Joseph (JJ) Jacks

Jan 13

Understanding COSS Market Dynamics

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Ben Halpern

Jun 7

Evolving past "Open Source Alternative to X"

#companybuilding #opensource #opencore

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Heather Meeker for COSS Community

Mar 10

Elastic License 2.0 and the Evolution of Open Source Licensing

#meta #licenses #history #community

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Joseph (JJ) Jacks for COSS Community

Feb 11

Hiring Your First Open Source Community Manager

#culture #resources #coss

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Ben Halpern

Dec 17 '20

How to forget about being commercial open source, and sell Coca Cola.

#founders #coss #buildingcompany

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Joseph (JJ) Jacks for COSS Community

Jan 21

$COSS ETF: Bringing COSS Equities to Retail and Institutional Investors Globally

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Joseph (JJ) Jacks for COSS Community

May 31

COSS Weekly #31

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Joseph (JJ) Jacks for COSS Community

Feb 28

COSS Weekly Issue #18

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Kevin Xu for COSS Community

Oct 23 '20

2 Things to Measure and Improve Open Source Community Sustainability

#creatorseries #fosteringcommunity

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Joseph (JJ) Jacks

Aug 16 '18

COSS Will Eat $500+ Billion Of SaaS Over ~20 Years

#buildingcompany #blog #liquidity #coss

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Nicolò

Jun 30

Road to Noovolari

#cloud #buildingcompany #devtools #founders

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Joseph (JJ) Jacks for COSS Community

Mar 29

COSS Weekly Issue #22

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Joseph (JJ) Jacks

Mar 17

Software Company Ontology

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Joseph (JJ) Jacks for COSS Community

Jun 14

COSS Weekly #33

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Joseph (JJ) Jacks for COSS Community

Feb 9

COSS Weekly Issue #15

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Shawn Cherian

Jan 19

An Orderly Transition of Power

#coss #opensource #enterprise #oss

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Andrea Cavagna

Dec 17 '20

That’s why your next business has to be focused on Developers

#opensource #saas #freemium #coss

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Joseph (JJ) Jacks

Dec 30 '20

Open Core vs. Closed Core: Comparing Fundamental Startup Cost Dimensions

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Heather Meeker for COSS Community

Jan 25

SSPL Re-Takes the Stage in 2021

#licenses #sspl #opensource #meta

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Bruno Lowagie

Apr 6

Open Source Survival: A Story from the Trenches

#opensource #businessmodels #opencore

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Joseph (JJ) Jacks

Mar 16 '20

For An Open Future

#coss #opensource #founders #buildingcompany

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Joseph (JJ) Jacks for COSS Community

Jul 6

COSS Weekly #36

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4 min read

Bruno Lowagie

May 18

Entreprenerd: a COSS story

#entrepreneurship #opensource #coss #businessmodels

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Kevin Xu for COSS Community

Feb 27 '20

Open Source Creator Series, Part 7: Deriving Commercial Product from Open Source Project

#developingproduct #blog #creatorseries #coss

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Bruno Lowagie

Feb 18

A COSS Success Story

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Joseph (JJ) Jacks for COSS Community

Apr 12

COSS Weekly Issue #24

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Bruno Lowagie

May 22

Is open source hostile?

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Joseph (JJ) Jacks for COSS Community

Mar 8

COSS Weekly Issue #19

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7 min read

Joseph (JJ) Jacks

Jun 20 '18

The $100 Billion+ Commercial OSS Index (COSSI)

#buildingcompany #blog #cossi #data

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Joseph (JJ) Jacks for COSS Community

May 23

COSS Weekly #30

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Joseph (JJ) Jacks for COSS Community

May 17

COSS Weekly #29

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Havi

Dec 16 '20

Introducing Scarf - a fresh approach to software distribution & observability

#opensource #coss #founders

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Joseph (JJ) Jacks

Jan 18

The COSS Monetization Reckoning Is Coming

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Joseph (JJ) Jacks

Sep 29 '19

Five Decades of Permissionless Software Innovation Movements

#fosteringcommunity #blog #opensource #history

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Joseph (JJ) Jacks for COSS Community

Jun 21

COSS Weekly #34

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4 min read

Joseph (JJ) Jacks for COSS Community

Jun 7

COSS Weekly #32

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Joseph (JJ) Jacks for COSS Community

Jan 17

COSS Weekly Issue #12

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Sam for COSS Community

Jan 4

OCS 2020 Opening Keynote: JJ and Ed Freeman, Father of Stakeholder Capitalism

#ocs2020 #history #stakeholders #meta

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Joseph (JJ) Jacks for COSS Community

Nov 15 '20

COSS Weekly Issue #5 💥

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Joseph (JJ) Jacks for COSS Community

Apr 4

COSS Weekly Issue #23

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Bruno Lowagie

Apr 13

The Dark Magic of Start-up Valuation

#valuation #startups #opensource #investing

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Joseph (JJ) Jacks for COSS Community

May 10

COSS Weekly #28

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Joseph (JJ) Jacks for COSS Community

Feb 17

OCS 2020 Breakout: Michael Bretti, Applied Ion Systems

#ocs2020 #hardware #space #ecosystem

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Joseph (JJ) Jacks for COSS Community

Feb 1

COSS Weekly Issue #14

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Sam for COSS Community

Jan 7

OCS 2020 Keynote: Bob Young, former Co-Founder/CEO of Red Hat

#ocs2020 #history #linux #companybuilding

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Joseph (JJ) Jacks for COSS Community

Apr 19

COSS Weekly Issue #25

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Joseph (JJ) Jacks for COSS Community

Feb 17

COSS Weekly Issue #16

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