{"id":1611,"date":"2009-12-09T01:58:52","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T06:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1611"},"modified":"2009-12-09T01:58:52","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T06:58:52","slug":"how-do-you-convince-an-entrepreneur-to-go-opensource","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/12\/09\/how-do-you-convince-an-entrepreneur-to-go-opensource","title":{"rendered":"How do you convince an entrepreneur to go opensource?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, a while back, I became a <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.technopreneurassociationmalaysia.com\/?page_id=6\">council member<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.technopreneurassociationmalaysia.com\/\">Technopreneurs Association of Malaysia<\/a> (TeAM). My focus is on <b>open source and open standards<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to get more entrepreneurs building their products on opensource. I want them to harness open standards, and expose APIs so others can build cool stuff around it. I want to see TeAM help create more Malaysian tech success stories.<\/p>\n<p>As an aside, I found <a href=\"http:\/\/fossfaq.com\/\">FOSS FAQ<\/a>, and decided to post a question there: <a href=\"http:\/\/fossfaq.com\/questions\/117\/how-do-you-convince-an-entreprenur-to-go-opensource\">How do you convince an entrepreneur to go opensource?<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Seems like a silly question. I mean, VC&#8217;s like Guy Kawasaki like you to use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/12\/18\/the-art-of-innovation-guy-kawasaki\">cheap, and highly available tools<\/a>, and opensource fits that bill. But nowadays, proprietary vendors have also upped the game &#8211; they also provide cheap (free for a time period) tools. So <a href=\"http:\/\/fossfaq.com\/questions\/117\/how-do-you-convince-an-entreprenur-to-go-opensource\">how do you get entrepreneurs going OSS for their products?<\/a> What&#8217;s your pitch to them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, a while back, I became a council member at the Technopreneurs Association of Malaysia (TeAM). My focus is on open source and open standards. I would like to get more entrepreneurs building their products on opensource. I want them to harness open standards, and expose APIs so others can build cool stuff around it. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[1026,1028,283,1027],"class_list":["post-1611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-entrepreneur","tag-fossfaq","tag-opensource","tag-team"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-pZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1612,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions\/1612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}