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I've seen a few open source companies that wound up being successful... when just starting out, how do you find paying clients to do services for?
by tjr 17y ago
I've seen a few open source companies that wound up being successful... when just starting out, how do you find paying clients to do services for?
- delano 17y agoYou write software people want to use. Then you wait. And while you're waiting you write about it, talk about it, and make the software better. Eventually clients come to you.
- wmf 17y agoYou start the open source project at your day job, then two years later when there is a critical mass of potential customers you start the startup.
- brianm 17y agoBy having something we want short term expertise on. I'd contract any of the Damien, J. Chris, or Jan in a heartbeat to help bootstrap Couch for us, if they were up for it :-)