Monthly Archives: January 2021

How to pick a market that will make you money

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: _Essay 📝, Entrepreneurship

As a founder, picking your market is the most important decision you’ll make. It will impact every aspect of your journey, from product development to sales, and ultimately determine how profitable you’ll be. A good market compensates for poor execution on your part, while even the best execution will struggle with a bad one.

So what goes into a good market?

The key attributes are:

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Open source licensing for supervillains

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: _Deep Dive 🔍, Legal

This post covers my research into open source software licensing and my analysis of real-world open source projects that profit off of open source code via proprietary licenses.

Keep reading and you’ll learn:

  • What the difference between a restrictive and permissive license is
  • What dual licensing is and how you can use it make money off of open source code
  • What CLAs are and the specific clause your CLA needs for use with dual licensing
  • Examples of companies that implement dual licensing and how they do it

And of course: I am not a lawyer and none of this is legal advice.

Let’s talk evil. And by evil, I mean money.

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