Business Of Open Source

Editor's Notes

• #16: By a show of hands.... Developers or designers? Small business? Enterprise? Less than a year? 1-3 years? Old? NOLA / South? South? Elsewhere?
• #30: growth environment
• #31: We have a cool opportunity as business people. We are magic! We turn free software into jobs.
• #32: We have a cool opportunity as business people. We are magic!
• #34: Citizen journalism, participatory journalism, user-generated news,
• #35: Drupal, Michael Meyers TIME mag - top 50 website bought by the examiner.com, nominated for an EMMY in Advanced Technology
• #36: entirely written by Indian youth
• #37: big
• #38: local, accessible
• #39: seeds
• #40: microfinance, crowdfunding
• #49: "I think that one of the things that we all agree to is that the touchstone for economic policy is, does it allow the average American to find good employment and see their incomes rise; that we can’t just look at things in the aggregate, we do want to grow the pie, but we want to make sure that prosperity is spread across the spectrum of regions and occupations and genders and races; and that economic policy should focus on growing the pie, but it also has to make sure that everybody has got opportunity in that system."
• #50: Henry Chesbrough - Open Business Models
• #51: Let's be clear about what is meant by open business model. A business model performs two important functions: it creates value, and it captures a portion of that value. It creates value by defining a series of activities from raw materials through to the final consumer that will yield a new product or service with value being added throughout the various activities. The business model captures value by establishing a unique resource, asset, or position within that series of activities, where the firm enjoys a competitive advantage.
• #53: Jason Fried - 37 Signals Follow the Chefs - Lagasse, Batali, Flay, Child, Oliver. What they do is they out teach, out share, and out contribute their competitors. They’re out there saying “hey look, I’m a chef, I’m going to give you all my secrets, here they are.” Not afraid to put their ideas out there and let people learn from them. Not afraid that people will take their ideas and build a restaurant right beside of them. Think about “what’s your cookbook?” ....... In the business world people ask “why would you want to give this away, won’t your competitors use it?” Give the idea away and get the message out. Company is lucky if it has customers, very lucky if it has fans, incredibly lucky if it has an audience that comes back to hear what you have to say every day.
• #56: No one owns ideas - someone already had yours GIVE IT AWAY *It’s not that nobody owns it; it’s that *everybody* does.
• #57: No one owns ideas - someone already had yours GIVE IT AWAY *It’s not that nobody owns it; it’s that *everybody* does.
• #59: How many have a mission statement / values? Idea repository - how do people know what others are working on? Thinking about? Ask, “why do we do this?” reasons, meanings
• #60: How many have a mission statement / values? Idea repository - how do people know what others are working on? Thinking about? Ask, “why do we do this?” reasons, meanings
• #62: IDEAS
• #63: Grow change die
• #64: Grow change die
• #65: Grow change die
• #67: Management 101: don’t take credit for other people’s ideas productivity killer (Take the blame, not the credit) Don’t reinvent the wheel here
• #68: Management 101: don’t take credit for other people’s ideas productivity killer (Take the blame, not the credit) Don’t reinvent the wheel here
• #69: Management 101: don’t take credit for other people’s ideas productivity killer (Take the blame, not the credit) Don’t reinvent the wheel here
• #71: _Diversity - ways to measure _Age, race, gender, sexual orientation, ability _Location, personality, experience
• #72: _Diversity - ways to measure _Age, race, gender, sexual orientation, ability _Location, personality, experience
• #80: Don’t overcomplicate.
• #81: Don’t overcomplicate.
• #86: No baggage. Let it morph, grow on it’s own, organically. No ifs, ands, buts.
• #87: No baggage. Let it morph, grow on it’s own, organically. No ifs, ands, buts.
• #88: No baggage. Let it morph, grow on it’s own, organically. No ifs, ands, buts.
• #93: crowdfunding hug, kiss, spank $50-$1000 cd to original artwork
• #94: “We're taking the intellectual property we've generated and gleaned from Social Signal's four years of consulting, strategy and development and making it available for free online, under a Creative Commons license.” it’s NOT CODE
• #95: designed and selected by the community 1500 designs a week started with $1k, $5m designers get paid $2k + gc, more for reprint
• #100: We all win!
• #102: Overexposure sales story
• #103: time to build the openness
• #104: Distracted
• #107: “Clever entrepreneurs and even established companies can profit from this volunteerism--but only if they don't get too greedy.”
• #111: openwashing?
• #112: Wal-Mart employee
• #113: Wal-Mart employee
• #114: Wal-Mart employee
• #126: social, environmental, and profit PEOPLE, PLANET, PROFIT
• #127: embrace GIVING IT AWAY
• #128: _ people can live anywhere, work any time
• #129: understanding each other's passions and aligning work with them
• #130: open space - 20 hours, books + other passions