Sean Larkin is an award winning public speaker, giving talks all over the world on webpack, JavaScript, and web perf. Currently he is a SWE at Microsoft managing Web Infra for OneDrive/Sharepoint
"If you've raised some funds, how'd you go about it?"
So I'll preface the answer to this question with a very important statement: If your first goal is to make money, you'll fail.
What you really want to be focusing on, is creating trust, partnerships, lasting relationships with users, companies, contributors, and other relevant parties (like Browser Vendors, other open source projects, etc.).
These are all things that we focused on first and let funding become the dividend from the creations and sustaining of these long term relationships.
I won't go through our entire process, however I can share a transcript that was recorded from me presenting on this topic at a webinar: medium.com/open-collective/funding...
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"If you've raised some funds, how'd you go about it?"
So I'll preface the answer to this question with a very important statement: If your first goal is to make money, you'll fail.
What you really want to be focusing on, is creating trust, partnerships, lasting relationships with users, companies, contributors, and other relevant parties (like Browser Vendors, other open source projects, etc.).
These are all things that we focused on first and let funding become the dividend from the creations and sustaining of these long term relationships.
I won't go through our entire process, however I can share a transcript that was recorded from me presenting on this topic at a webinar: medium.com/open-collective/funding...