Business
Drawing from my personal experience in building and selling several businesses, along with my involvement in expanding an Open Source community and non-profit, these posts cover diverse insights into the world of business.
2025
2024
- Solving the Maker-Taker problem Featured
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
- Balancing Makers and Takers to scale and sustain Open Source Featured
- Who sponsors Drupal development? (2018-2019 edition)
- Acquia acquires Mautic to create the Open Digital Experience Platform
- Should Product Marketing report to Product or Marketing?
- Acquia retrospective 2018
- Marketing technologies for engineers, not marketers
2018
- Relentlessly eliminating barriers to growth Featured
- Optimizing your product strategy for the short- and long-term
- Exit Inventive Designers
- My thoughts on IBM buying Red Hat for $34 billion Featured
- A breakout year for Open Source businesses
- Who sponsors Drupal development? (2017-2018 edition)
- Watching former colleagues take it to the next level
- How Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub impacts the cloud wars
- Unlike marketing efforts, CAPEX doesn't lie
- My thoughts on Adobe buying Magento for $1.68 billion
- Acquia retrospective 2017
2017
2016
2015
- From B2C to B2One
- Acquia raises $55 million series G
- Giving back and making money
- The post-browser era of the web is coming
- Content platform + user platform = BOOM!
- The Big Reverse of the Web Featured
- How much money to raise for your startup? [Flowchart]
- 5 things a government can do to grow its startup ecosystem
- On the hard choices we make every day
- Acquia retrospective 2014
2014
- Attitude beats experience
- Business model innovation beats technical innovation Featured
- The end of ownership: the zero-marginal-cost economy
- The business behind Open Source
- Acquia acquired TruCentric
- Acquia raises $50 million series F
- The investment case for employing a Drupal core contributor
- Acquia drops non-compete clauses
- Entrepreneurship is 80% sales and marketing
- Do well and do good Featured
- From content management to digital experience management
- Acquia retrospective 2013
- Entrepreneurs, not the government, will save Europe's economy
2013
2012
2011
2010
- Drupal benefits from venture capital Featured
- The right amount of venture capital to raise
- Stock options and employee equity Featured
- Is it mouthwash or hand soap?
- Acquia raises $8.5 million series C
- The commercialization of a volunteer-driven Open Source project Featured
- My first paycheck
- On business models for Drupal distributions Featured
- Joomla vs Drupal: business models and commercial ecosystem
- The history of MySQL AB
- Future of Open Source Survey 2010
- Training more Drupalistas
- Acquia retrospective 2009