Investing in Open-Source Data Tools - Bela Wiertz

We talked about: Bela's background Why startups even need investors Why open source is a viable go-to-market strategy Building a bottom-up community The investment thesis for the TKM Family Office and the blurriness of the funding round naming convention Angel investors vs VC Funds vs family offices Bela's investment criteria and GitHub stars as a metric Inbound sourcing, outbound sourcing, and investor networking Making a good impression on an investor Balancing open and closed source parts of a product The future of open source Recent successes of open source companies Bela's resource recommendations Links: Understand who is engaging with your open source project article: https://www.crowd.dev/ Top 6 Books on Developer Community Building: https://www.crowd.dev/post/top-6-books-on-developer-community-building Which open source software metrics matter: https://www.bvp.com/atlas/measuring-the-engagement-of-an-open-source-software-community#Which-open-source-software-metrics-matter Free MLOps course: https://github.com/DataTalksClub/mlops-zoomcamp Join DataTalks.Club: https://datatalks.club/slack.html Our events: https://datatalks.club/events.html