<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Craig Fitzpatrick</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Improving Product-Market Fit by Engaging an Open Source Community</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Open Source Business Resource</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2010</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">07/2010</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://timreview.ca/article/365</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Talent First Network</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ottawa</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">While many commercial software vendors still balk at the idea of open source, producing and participating in open source software (OSS) projects can provide significant benefits to a company. One benefit is improving product-market fit.

This article introduces the concept of product-market fit. It then provides an example of one startup's experience with opening a portion of their code. Finally, it discusses the importance of building community and some of the motivators of community participation.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">July 2010</style></issue><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Articles</style></work-type><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">SWIX
Craig Fitzpatrick is an Ottawa-based software entrepreneur who has been involved in building several software companies over the last 17 years. He currently leads product development at a new social media startup, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.swixhq.com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;SWIX&lt;/a&gt;. SWIX is like Google Analytics for social media.</style></custom1></record></records></xml>