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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JANUARY 24, 2011
The convenience of online shoe shopping is a game-changer — to the tune of billions of dollars of revenue — but how could they make up the costs ? In fact, at WPEngine we’re already doing it in several ways: Contributing everything back to open source. I hope this is sustainable, but is it?
news.ycombinator.com
SEPTEMBER 16, 2011
For three years I worked at Bug Labs (open source hardware company). We not only told everyone what we did, we posted the source code and the blueprints online. flavor of a question-and-answer, poll-your-friends site with a distant revenue model and no user acquisition strategy. Nobody ever stole our ideas.
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