Georg Link chats about measuring open source communities, how to sell open source, what it's like to grow up in a castle, and more!   Welcome to episode 11 of the Hacking Open Source Business Podcast.

Amanda Brock joins Avi and Matt for episode of 10 of the Hacking Open Source Business Podcast.  Amanda talks to us about the important of open source in government circles, the growing need for software curation, how security of open source is required for critical public infrastructure and more.  Amanda also fills us in on her upcoming conference, the State of Open Conference 2023 (https://stateofopencon.com/), and her latest book, the Open Source Law, Policy, and Practice guide.

Join Avi and Matt for a dive into recent news in the open source space as they chat in person while together in Oakland California.  They discuss the funding tea received for their new venture, how maintainers are getting paid, news of layoffs in the tech space, and more.

Interested in learning about the impact, momentum, and growth of your contributor base?  Brian Douglas stopped by the Hacking Open Source Business Podcast to talk to us about #opensource contributions, measuring those contributions, DevRel, his new company https://opensauced.pizza/, and more!   Don't forget to like and subscribe!  

Peter Zaitsev joins the Hacking Open Source Business Podcast and goes completely unscripted.  He covers everything from bootstrapping an open source startup,open source business models, and even his must have holiday gifts.  Peter is the co-founder and former CEO of Percona.  He scaled Percona up from 2 people to over 350 people, all without any outside funding.  

In this episode, we are joined by Tigris Data founder and CEO Ovais Tariq. Ovais shares his experiences and knowledge gained while founding a new open source company.  We discuss using open source software to build new open source software, the impact of the economy on fundraising, and more!   Episode 6 of the Hacking Open Source Business Podcast is Live!

Tune in to listen to Matt and Avi share their thoughts on the impact of AI on open source, give their opinions on the recent co-pilot lawsuit, chat about the recent round of layoffs at tech companies, and dive into the news of the week in the open source community.

Live from all things open, Matt & Avi welcome Emily Omier to the Hacking Open Source Business Podcast.  Emily and Avi discuss their talk on how to determine if your open source project sucks or not, as well as dig into how to interview users, figure out the position and messaging for your open source project, and more!  We hope you will join us!

In the 3rd Episode of the Hacking Open Source Business Podcast Joseph Jacks (JJ), the founder of OSS Capital, a VC firm specializing in investments in open source businesses, shares his insider view on building, funding, and growing open source businesses.  Avi and Matt ask JJ to cover his investment strategy, what he looks for in founders, how he evaluates business growth, and more!  If you are a maintainer thinking about trying to get seed funding, an open source business executive...

In this week's episode, Avi and Matt Talk with Heroic Labs CEO Chris Molozian and the Head of Developer Relations at Heroic Labs, Gabriel Pene.    Heroic labs did not start as an #opensource company but moved to #opensource later in the company's lifecycle.  Learn about some of the reasons why they made the switch, how they are currently using open source, and how open source has become critical to their product strategy.  We discuss how they measure success in the open source space and what...

Avi Press and Matt Yonkovit sit down for the first episode of our podcast covering Open Source Business Topics.  In this episode we cover companies moving from Open Source Licenses to Non-Open Source Licenses like the BSL.  Building an open source business is hard, so is this a natural evolution?  or something else? Tune in and listen to our thoughts.