This is a potential outline for blog posts profiling and covering open source tech ventures. The objective of these posts is to show that there is a variety of financing models to sustain Open (-Source) Tech Ventures. A secondary objective is to give more exposure and visibility to the projects.
Please take a look at the following structure and provide feedback whether you think this is achieving these goals, as well as this covers the important aspects of your venture. Please comment on anything you deem important to mention. Still this is just a draft, so if you think I should start over, please mention that, too.
Thank you for your time and feedback!
- Name, Product-One-Liner, Logo, Website, Github, etc
- Giving a more detailed overview of the project through a TCC (made by Ben and reviewed by a project member – more details about the canvas here).
- Team size + structure, Pics (if available)
- Age of the Tech (when did it get started and how)
- Age of the "Company"
- how is it financed, initially and the plan for long-term
- how did they come up with the idea
- Details about the concept, threads
- When does this work, when doesn'it ?
- Anything you'd like others to know about this conceptional idea?
Hey Benjamin,
Here is some info I gave to the people sitting on the Open Source Startup Summit Pitch Panel before the event. Hope it helps:
As panelists, after each pitch, each of you will have 15 seconds to give two quick comments on their pitch:
» What did you like / find interesting about their pitch
» What piece of advice do you have for improving their pitch
There probably won't be time for q&a during the pitch panel, but this will lead in nicely to the VIP party at 5pm and the startup showcase at 6pm; it should also serve as a great introduction for the startups to the summit attendees.
Here are some of the points the startups will be covering:
» What is your company? Who are you? What's your role with the company?
» What does your product do?
» What market are you serving?
» What problem are you solving for that market?
» What do people buy? Why do they buy?
» What type of traction / investments have you gotten already?
» When did you create or join the company?
» When did you start monetizing?
» What makes it spread?
» What is the differentiation between free and paid?
» What’s the sales model and customer journey?
» How do you work with the open source community?
» How does someone become a committer?
» Do most of the committers work for the company?
» Is being open source mostly marketing or do you get material contributions from the community?
» Who do the contributors tend to be, hobbyists or corporate allies / frenemies?