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How to build a business around Open Source?
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Tomasz Karwatka
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Catch the Tornado is investing in TechTree
TechTree is building a platform enabling people in tech to help each other and get rewarded.
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Tomasz Karwatka
Enterprise Software
Vue Storefront has raised $17.4 million in a Series A round
Vue Storefront’s Series A round was led by Creandum, with Earlybird Digital East, Paua Ventures, and Movens Capital all participating.
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Tomasz Karwatka
Enterprise Software
Catch the Tornado is building a universal scheduling and booking system
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Tomasz Karwatka
Enterprise Software
Vue Storefront is backed by Y Combinator now
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Tomasz Karwatka
Enterprise Software
Peace of Mind as a Service
After reading Project Phoenix, an insightful reader can get how essential DevOps is and how it can save their business. This story begins precisely where many CTO’s stories ended up: disastrous mess, tech debt, the legacy system being unable to deploy any new feature to production in a reliable time.
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Piotr Karwatka
Enterprise Software
Frontend driven backend
From the moment I realized the Paradigm of software development has shifted, I became a firm believer in composable commerce. Then my next thought was that the frontend-developers are driving the technological changes. They’re using and mixing the backend and API more like utilities solving specific business needs while keeping a healthy buy vs. own balance.
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Piotr Karwatka
Enterprise Software
Lifestyle programming that shifted the paradigm
I still remember my first professional job as a developer. It was around 15 years ago. I was in charge of C++ based (MFC libs for Windows 32) code editor. I still remember struggling with some COM object model and the migration from 32 to 64 bit CPU architecture. The tasks that took me around 3 weeks to complete. Testing out my pain-tolerance. Providing virtually no business value — so immediately afterwards I got fired.
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Piotr Karwatka
Enterprise Software
Vue Storefront lessons learned: 7 books to inspire your open source project
Crafting a software product, like Vue Storefront, is a pretty rich experience. Many different factors contribute to the success of an endeavor — or its failure. It’s like mixing lean startup, project management and coding altogether :-)
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Piotr Karwatka
Enterprise Software
Vue Storefront lessons learned: Starting a successful Open-Source project
Vue Storefront has gathered 3,600 stars on Github (and growing) in a little more than one year leveraging full transparency, inclusivity and category power possessed by Vue.js and PWAs. Here you have the lessons we learned in the process.
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Piotr Karwatka
Enterprise Software
Vue Storefront lessons learned: project setup
It’s time to dig deeper into the technology and find out how we initially failed on lazy loading, why coding standards are a MUST and what’s a really difficult part of PWA.
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Piotr Karwatka
Enterprise Software
How to build a business around Open Source?
I used Open Source as a Marketing & Sales strategy as well as a Product Strategy multiple times. This is how we build two successful Professional Services Companies and two successful Product-based companies. We are also the co-creators of two large commercial open source projects - one for SAP, one for Shopware.
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Tomasz Karwatka
Enterprise Software
Inside The Tornado Book
A Tornado is a brief period of hyper-growth when markets accelerate to triple-digit growth rates and new product categories spread like wildfire.
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Tomasz Karwatka
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