[p2p-research] Fwd: June Issue of OSBR Available

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Dru Lavigne <dru at osbr.ca>
Date: Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 12:29 AM
Subject: June Issue of OSBR Available
To: Dru Lavigne <dru at osbr.ca>


The June issue of the OSBR is now available in PDF and HTML formats at
www.osbr.ca. The editorial theme this month is "Growing Business" and the
authors include:

Tony Bailetti, Director of Ontario's Talent First Network, discusses a
novel strategy for growing the revenue of technology companies and startups
through active participation in a business ecosystem. He introduces a
blueprint to grow revenue, an inventory of growth formulas, and briefly
defines business ecosystems, keystones and platforms. He then describes the
business ecosystem approach to grow revenue, comparing it to traditional
approaches and identifying when the business ecosystem approach works
better, as well as the benefits and risks of implementing the business
ecosystem approach. He highlights the differences between business
ecosystems and development communities and outsourcing.

Mekki MacAulay, Principal of OSStrategy.org, outlines seven strategies that
use open source to grow revenue and provides examples of successful
implementations for each.

Tomas Marko, a researcher for Lead to Win, describes the challenges that
entrepreneurs in startup companies must overcome in order to grow
successfully. He examines both the risks and benefits of growth as well as
the importance of short and long term strategic planning.

Ram Mohan, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at
Afilias, tells the story behind Afilias' continuous growth and the open
source product and community that were leveraged to support it. His article
also examines the importance of partnering with and actively contributing to
an open source project to support the growth of both the project and the
company.

Tarus Balog, CEO of The OpenNMS Group, answers a question frequently asked
of open source proponents: namely, how to make money with open source. He
describes the successful model used by the OpenNMS Group to generate
sustainable revenue for growth, while focusing on open source.

The editorial theme for the upcoming July issue of the OSBR is "Go to
Market" and the guest editor will be Corien Kershey. Submissions are due by
June 20--contact the Editor if you are interested in a submission.

Thanks for the continuing interest in our work,
Dru Lavigne
Editor, OSBR
http://www.osbr.ca
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Open Source Business Resource
http://www.osbr.ca/ojs/index.php/osbr



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