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January 6, 2025

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Open Core Ventures

Let demand steer early-stage open-core product development
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Open Core Ventures

Aug 2024

Technical founders need a demand-focused co-founder
Featured, Press

Jun 2024

Playing the AI long game
Open Core Ventures

May 2024

Open Charter gives open-source users predictability amidst the licensing-change trend
Open Core Ventures

Nov 2023

Don’t listen to feedback from VCs who pass on investing
Open Core Ventures

Nov 2023

OSS startups’ growing-communities advantage: passionate people, PMF, and an existing user base
Open Core Ventures

Oct 2023

The AGPL license is a non-starter for most companies
Open Core Ventures

Sep 2023

Open core: split based on features, not codebase
Featured, GitLab

Aug 2023

Disagree, commit, and disagree: How a lazy solution became a category
Open Core Ventures

Aug 2023

HashiCorp switching to BSL shows the need for Open Charter companies
Open Core Ventures

Aug 2023

Founder-compensated startups are default dead
Open Core Ventures

Aug 2023

Red Hat gets around GPLv2 license intention with contract law
Open Core Ventures

Jul 2023

Open core is a misunderstood business model
Open Core Ventures

Jun 2023

AI weights are not open source
Open Core Ventures

Jun 2023

Artificially constrain to one goal to create creativity and velocity
GitLab

May 2023

GitLab’s AI-assisted features
Open Core Ventures

Apr 2023

The Red Hat model only worked for Red Hat
Featured, Press

Mar – Apr 2023

GitLab’s CEO on building one of the world’s largest all-remote companies
Featured, Open Core Ventures

Mar 2023

Don’t listen to potential customers “if only” requests
Open Core Ventures

Feb 2023

Why open core is the new default
Open Core Ventures

Jan 2023

The open-core standard pricing model
GitLab

Nov 2022

Cadence is everything: 10x engineering organizations for 10x engineers
Open Core Ventures

Oct 2022

Preventing the bait-and-switch in open core
GitLab

Oct 2022

One third of what we learned about IPOs in taking GitLab public
GitLab

Jul 2022

Open core is worse than plugins
GitLab

Jul 2022

Why we’re sticking with Ruby on Rails
Featured, Press

Jun 2022

GitLab CEO: ‘Remote work is just work’
Featured, Press

May 2022

Try this simple framework to empower remote employees
GitLab

Apr 2022

Two sizes fit most: PostgreSQL and ClickHouse
GitLab

Dec 2021

Don’t confuse these twelve shortcuts with iteration
GitLab

Nov 2021

Situational leadership strategy

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