Comments on: Goodbye Mindquarry! What Will Be Next?

By: MySQL :: Kaj Arnö

MySQL :: Kaj Arnö — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:40:05 +0000

[...] southern Germany. Not that such companies are very tied to geography. It’s Sandro Groganz, of Mindquarry and eZ Systems fame, who has set up [...]

By: developercast.com » Sandro Groganz’s Blog: Starting Open Source Marketing Consultancy

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:20:54 +0000

[...] new venture to help out the Open Source community - an Open Source Marketing Consultancy. Due to solid demand, I will officially start my own business offering marketing consulting services to Open Source [...]

By: Starting Open Source Marketing Consultancy (by Sandro Groganz)

Starting Open Source Marketing Consultancy (by Sandro Groganz) — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:12:13 +0000

[...] to solid demand, I will officially start my own business offering marketing consulting services to Open Source [...]

By: Judith Andresen

Judith Andresen — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:20:39 +0000

I keep my fingers crossed for you. Hope that you’ll find the right decision.

By: Lars Trieloff

Lars Trieloff — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:33:30 +0000

If you have the opportunity of working with many exciting companies opposed to working with a single exciting company, take the first option. It’s not much you can lose (basically time and money), but you have got a lot to win.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 04:43:21 +0000

Hi Sandro,

Can the business scale and make all customers happy? That’s up to you, right? It’s not much different from going and working with a company, similar risks apply.

Can I do it without sacrificing my private life? Working 8,10 or 12 hours a day for somebody else is also sacrificing your private life.

Give it a go. Has it done Lars and co. so much harm? What, it’s been 3-4 weeks before he is working elsewhere right and he’s come out of it with a great amount of insight that would have taken him years to learn otherwise.

By: ordnas

ordnas — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 11:44:28 +0000

Hi Stephan,

right, it’s important to do what you can identify with - that’s something I already found and feel happy with, which is OSS marketing.

My concerns are mainly related to working self-employed/building a business: Can the business scale and make all customers happy? Can I do it without sacrificing my private life?

I am quite sure that it would be a good time to start such a business now, because
a) OSS companies, who are mostly technology-driven, realize that they need to become market-driven;
b) there’s a growing amount of OSS start-ups and also existing companies incorporating or switching to OSS;
c) governments start to embrace OSS for their institutions.

The bottom line is that marketing is what helps OSS in general to get from geek tools to mass adoption while sustaining and growing demand in OSS products.

Sandro

By: Stephan

Stephan — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:43:42 +0000

I think it doesn’t really matter if you are employed or freelancer. The main question is what you are doing, do you like what you doing and last not least: are you able to pay your bills? (keep in mind that you are an house-owner and upcoming family father now. )

Anyway, I have a high trust that you’ll doing the right thing, even if I just might know 2 of the 4 choices. Good luck.