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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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How investors evaluate startups for success - Bela Wiertz

About this event

Outline:

• Investors and why are they needed
• Investing in Open-Source startups
• Evaluating and analyzing open-source startups

About the speaker:

Bela Wiertz is working for a German family office investing in VC Funds and early-stage startups with a focus on open-source Data, AI & Developer Tooling. In his work he is sourcing, evaluating and working with many different open-source companies in the early stages of finding their product-community-fit.

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