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


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