Experts often advise entrepreneurs to pair up, but there’s so much freedom in going it alone.
It takes longer to hit cruising altitude.
You can start slowly and fund your growth with profits.
You can’t launch a business and wait for customers to show up like trick-or-treaters on Halloween. They need a reason to care; something that’s unique, intriguing, fresh or surprising.
Don’t waste time worrying about those media-darling founders or what your MBA classmates have done.
Without open source, and if you’re only building for your organization, you have a narrow focus. Open source forces you to consider the use cases of other organization’s needs, and it helps shape it to be an overall better product at the end of the day.
stick with open source kept them honest, keeping them from building niche products that had no relevance to the broader cloud native ecosystem.
to build an open source project with longevity, you need to stay apprised of the trends and best practices of the community you’re trying to serve. That’s how you encourage contributions from developers and practitioners eager to contribute to the wider benefit of their community, not a single siloed project.
Look for grassroots community support first, not corporate sponsors.
Today, working at Gumroad resembles working on an open source project like Rails. Except it’s neither open source, nor unpaid.
汽車製造商福特公司的創始人亨利．福特講述了以下故事：
「當世界上還沒有汽車的時候，如果你問人們：『你想要什麼樣的交通工具？』他們會說：『一匹更快的馬』。」
傾聽客戶的聲音，努力滿足客戶的需求，是企業管理的常態。然而，光影法則在這裡也起了作用。
正如亨利．福特所說，如果只聽從顧客的聲音，最終只會找到並養出一匹跑得快的馬。用生產線方式製造大規模廉價汽車的創新思路將不會誕生。受制於客戶的需求，將無法應對環境的變化。