TY - JOUR T1 - Improving Product-Market Fit by Engaging an Open Source Community JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2010 A1 - Craig Fitzpatrick AB - 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. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/365 IS - July 2010 U1 - 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, SWIX. SWIX is like Google Analytics for social media. ER -