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If what you are doing is a real business, then given the choice to protect your business or aspiring to be "open" (but with no benefit, just risk") - you focus on the business.
It's really no different than releasing too much of your secret sauce as open source - can only hurt you and is a sign you aren't that mature about what running a business through various problems is like.
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I think you've hit on some of the issues. One of the challenges is that it is hard to know what the company was getting out of being open. That is hard because there is what folks say, and there is what they really think, and in the startup business the gap between those two realities can be really big. Also, the most successful startup CEOs seem to be really good at crafting a narrative out of very cherry picked "fa…
Peldi (Balsamiq) did this well, but in reality it was all pretend. He pretended like had this massive groundswell of people who loved his app but it was an incredibly well-executed PR campaign and he deserves mad props for it. He didn't make it clear at the time, but eventually it came out. Of course, people did love his app but he engineered that incredibly well. So if being open makes sense for PR, do it, but learn…
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He’s a prolific indie creator with a history of building a successful business in the open. More than enough credibility if you ask me.
Who are you? This may be true but without evidence is sounds like exactly what the OP is complaining about. His LinkedIn doesn't even claim any business building before 2.5 years ago. https://www.linkedin.com/in/damengchen It only claims he built 2 things.
Who is Damon Chen and why should I take this commentary seriously?
FTFY What if general demise of startups (due to funding drought, covid, market saturation, bad timing aka world wasn’t ready for our idea, or leave your favorite excuse in comments) also impacted open startups? And what if they weren’t successful because open but because market was easier?
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I'm planning to open up our financial details as well as soon as we have enough transactions so that our clients can't be identified based on our data.
*edit: grammar
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He’s a prolific indie creator with a history of building a successful business in the open. More than enough credibility if you ask me.
Who are you? This may be true but without evidence is sounds like exactly what the OP is complaining about. His LinkedIn doesn't even claim any business building before 2.5 years ago. https://www.linkedin.com/in/damengchen It only claims he built 2 things.