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August 9, 2005, written by Jeremy. Read the commentary.

If you are an entrepreneur, you need to pay attention to this post.

There is open source business like the business experiment and then there is open door business like Google, Red Hat, and Flickr — come in, walk around, and use what you like for free — but if you want to go pro, that’s going to cost you.

Fred Wilson:

“Free is a great way to make money. You just have to know how you are going to get paid for being free.”

[thanks to Hugh for the link]

Commentary

Written by Kevin on August 9, 2005

This is a fantastic site. There a tonne of entreprenurial ideas throughout the posts. Jeremy – this is a guy you should be connecting with!

Written by Jeremy on August 9, 2005

Absolutely. I’m working my way up to it.