Dries Buytaert

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.

2024

• Solving the Maker-Taker problem Featured

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  October 2nd

2023

• Acquia to acquire Monsido

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  November 14th
• Acquia retrospective 2022

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  January 10th

2022

• Acquia retrospective 2021

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  January 11th

2021

• Who sponsors Drupal development? (2020-2021 edition)

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  October 20th
• Acquia to acquire Widen

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  September 8th
• On having to let go to optimize for impact

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  April 7th
• Acquia retrospective 2020

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  January 11th

2020

• Who sponsors Drupal development? (2019-2020 edition)

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  November 9th
• Shop local to fuel the Open Source dividend

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  April 21st
• Is Open Source recession-proof? Featured

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  March 19th
• Acquia retrospective 2019

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  January 13th

2019

• Balancing Makers and Takers to scale and sustain Open Source Featured

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  September 19th
• Who sponsors Drupal development? (2018-2019 edition)

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  September 11th
• Acquia acquires Mautic to create the Open Digital Experience Platform

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  May 8th
• Should Product Marketing report to Product or Marketing?

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  March 11th
• Acquia retrospective 2018

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  January 29th
• Marketing technologies for engineers, not marketers

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  January 7th

2018

• Relentlessly eliminating barriers to growth Featured

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  December 17th
• Optimizing your product strategy for the short- and long-term

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  December 16th
• Exit Inventive Designers

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  November 30th
• My thoughts on IBM buying Red Hat for $34 billion Featured

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  October 28th
• A breakout year for Open Source businesses

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  October 12th
• Who sponsors Drupal development? (2017-2018 edition)

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  September 11th
• Watching former colleagues take it to the next level

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  July 24th
• How Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub impacts the cloud wars

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  June 4th
• Unlike marketing efforts, CAPEX doesn't lie

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  June 3rd
• My thoughts on Adobe buying Magento for $1.68 billion Featured

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  May 22nd
• Acquia retrospective 2017

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  January 8th

2017

• Who sponsors Drupal development? (2016-2017 edition)

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  September 13th
• Sharing innovation with your competitors

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  February 9th
• Acquia retrospective 2016

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  January 16th

2016

• Back to school

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  November 25th
• Content and Commerce: a big opportunity for Drupal Featured

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  November 10th
• Who sponsors Drupal development? (2015-2016 edition)

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  September 6th
• The long path to being understood Featured

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  June 21st
• Microsoft buys LinkedIn: the value of data

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  June 14th
• Founder dilution

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  March 4th
• Acquia retrospective 2015

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  January 5th

2015

• From B2C to B2One Featured

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  November 12th
• Acquia raises $55 million series G

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  September 28th
• Giving back and making money Featured

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  August 31st
• The post-browser era of the web is coming Featured

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  June 9th
• Content platform + user platform = BOOM!

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  March 31st
• The Big Reverse of the Web Featured

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  March 10th
• How much money to raise for your startup? [Flowchart]

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  March 2nd
• 5 things a government can do to grow its startup ecosystem

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  February 24th
• On the hard choices we make every day

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  January 26th
• Acquia retrospective 2014

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  January 9th

2014

• Attitude beats experience

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  December 22nd
• Business model innovation beats technical innovation Featured

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  December 1st
• The end of ownership: the zero-marginal-cost economy

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  September 7th
• The business behind Open Source Featured

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  July 24th
• Acquia acquired TruCentric

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  June 3rd
• Acquia raises $50 million series F

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  May 27th
• The investment case for employing a Drupal core contributor Featured

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  May 7th
• Acquia drops non-compete clauses

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  May 2nd
• Entrepreneurship is 80% sales and marketing Featured

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  March 28th
• Do well and do good Featured

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  March 26th
• From content management to digital experience management Featured

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  January 15th
• Acquia retrospective 2013

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  January 9th
• Entrepreneurs, not the government, will save Europe's economy

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  January 2nd

2013

• Can Europe copy Silicon Valley?

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  January 17th
• Acquia retrospective 2012

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  January 14th

2012

• Acquia raises $30 million series E

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  November 29th
• How does it feel to sell your company? Featured

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  September 20th
• Acquia fastest growing software company in US Featured

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  August 21st
• Mollom acquired by Acquia Featured

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  August 14th
• Acquia retrospective 2011

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  January 5th

2011

• Drupal + India = opportunity

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  November 15th
• Does Acquia suck up all the Drupal talent?

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  September 9th
• Why Acquia acquired Cyrve and GVS

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  September 9th
• Acquia raises $15 million series D

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  July 20th
• My week in review: week #2

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  March 26th
• My week in review: week #1

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  March 19th
• Acquia product strategy and vision Featured

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  January 24th
• Acquia retrospective 2010

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  January 4th

2010

• Drupal benefits from venture capital Featured

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  December 13th
• The right amount of venture capital to raise

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  December 8th
• Stock options and employee equity Featured

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  November 16th
• Is it mouthwash or hand soap?

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  November 15th
• Acquia raises $8.5 million series C

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  November 1st
• The commercialization of a volunteer-driven Open Source project Featured

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  October 25th
• My first paycheck

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  June 9th
• On business models for Drupal distributions Featured

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  May 19th
• Joomla vs Drupal: business models and commercial ecosystem

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  May 11th
• The history of MySQL AB

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  March 8th
• Future of Open Source Survey 2010

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  February 23rd
• Training more Drupalistas

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  January 13th
• Acquia retrospective 2009

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  January 5th

2009

• Open Government Directive and Drupal

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  December 14th
• Growing by fostering the right culture

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  November 13th
• Acquia adds 200 new customers in six months

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  August 10th
• Acquia raises $8 million series B

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  July 21st
• CIOs are starting to take notice of Drupal

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  July 10th

2008

• Contributing back to Drupal Featured

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  December 17th
• The freemium business model: giving away pays Featured

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  November 13th
• BussinessWeek's Young Entrepreneurs of Tech

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  April 18th
• Mollom, my content monitoring startup Featured

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  March 31st
• From infinite extensibility to infinite interoperability Featured

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  February 8th
• Popular Science using Drupal

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  January 31st

2007

• Acquia raises $7 million series A

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  December 19th
• Acquia, my Drupal startup

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  November 30th
• Gartner on pricing pressure

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  November 20th
• On hiring Drupal talent (2)

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  August 4th
• Microsoft and Drupal

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  July 31st
• NowPublic gets 10.6 million USD

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  July 30th
• Bring it on, IBM!

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  January 23rd
• Open Source in Europe

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  January 17th

2006

• SharePoint 2007

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  December 22nd
• Mass Drupal hosting

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  December 14th
• Community in the 21st century

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  December 11th
• Long live the web services loophole

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  November 13th
• Spikesource selling Drupal

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  September 19th
• Commercial Drupal training

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  May 9th