Building Commercial Open Source Software: Part 4 — Deployment & Business Model | by Ethan Batraski | Ethan Batraski’s Writings | Medium

In our time investing and supporting open-source companies, we’ve learned several lessons about project & community growth, balancing roadmap and priorities, go-to-market strategy, considering various deployment models, and more. In the spirit of open source, we wanted to share these learnings, organized into a series of posts that we’ll be publishing every week — enjoy! 54 54 Ethan Batraski’s Writings Venture Capitalist, Partner @Venrock, writing about open-source infrastructure and hard engineering Ethan Batraski in Ethan Batraski’s Writings 7 Ethan Batraski in Ethan Batraski’s Writings 82 1 Ethan Batraski in Ethan Batraski’s Writings 48 1 Ethan Batraski 58 Jacob Bennett in Level Up Coding 5K 62 Talha Şahin 1.8K 13 Dmitry Kruglov in Better Programming 6.7K 64 Vaishnav Manoj in DataX Journal 12.4K 146 Henry Ha (Here & Now) 342 Kostya Stepanov in UX Planet 3.4K 52 Help Status About Careers Blog Privacy Terms Text to speech Teams

In our time investing and supporting open-source companies, we’ve learned several lessons about project & community growth, balancing roadmap and priorities, go-to-market strategy, considering various deployment models, and more. In the spirit of open source, we wanted to share these learnings, organized into a series of posts that we’ll be publishing every week — enjoy! 54 54 Ethan Batraski’s Writings Venture Capitalist, Partner @Venrock, writing about open-source infrastructure and hard engineering Ethan Batraski in Ethan Batraski’s Writings 7 Ethan Batraski in Ethan Batraski’s Writings 82 1