Xavier Damman - Open Collective

Xavier Damman

How and why should companies sustain open source communities?

How and why should companies sustain open source communities?

Notes from the Sustain community meetup in San Francisco, April 12th 2019.

Rethinking the Tools for Collectives

Rethinking the Tools for Collectives

What tools are used by collectives for their activities? How can we improve them? What‘s missing? How can we contribute as developers to…

The New Citizen

The New Citizen

15 years ago, the word “startup” was not in our vocabulary. In 2005, TechCrunch came along and put that name on the map. They did so by…

Free pizzas for your tech meetup: S02E01 🍕👩🏻‍💻👨🏿‍💻😋

Free pizzas for your tech meetup: S02E01 🍕👩🏻‍💻👨🏿‍💻😋

Last October we announced a great deal for your tech meetup. Cloudflare can cover your pizzas in exchange of being mentioned during your…

March 2018 Investors Update

March 2018 Investors Update

Sorry for the delay in publishing this. We had to wait to make the team update about Pia and Aseem public before posting this.

Team update

I have one sad news and one great news to tell you about.

February 2018 Investors Update

February 2018 Investors Update

Dear investors, February was a short month but we broke through the bar of $100k in donations for the month 🎉 It’s a good milestone but it’s still quite a small number (remember, we only take 5%, so that’s $5k revenue per month, far from being enough to

January 2018 Investors update

January 2018 Investors update

Dear investors, Here are the latest from the front. Team Lincoln Clarete [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lincoln-clarete-b0194158/] (cced) has joined the team as our first full time engineer! Originally from Brazil, he made his way to New York in 2012 where he worked at Yipit [https://yipit.com] and

December 2017 Investors Update

December 2017 Investors Update

Dear investors, Happy new year! (never too late!) December was a good month. Our focus for January is retention. Improve emails to collectives and backers, update credit cards when they expire, etc. Our hiring pipeline is good and we hope to close one candidate this month. * Our Open Source foundation

November 2017 Investors Update

November 2017 Investors Update

Dear investors, November was a poor month for us. Total donations dipped after a consecutive increase for several months. Some of it was expected due to large one-time donations in October. Some of it was unexpected like no growth in recurring donations. It’s a few factors — we believe largest

From the Internet of Information to the Internet of Actions

From the Internet of Information to the Internet of Actions

What do Trump supporters, Catalan separatists, the French political movement En Marche and Brexit voters have in common? If I’m making such…

October 2017 Investors update

October 2017 Investors update

Dear investors,

September 2017 Investors update

September 2017 Investors update

Dear investors, Sorry for the delay, been busy with the release of Open Collective v2 [https://blog.opencollective.com/open-collective-v2-is-live/]. It includes lots of new features: save credit card on file, customize tiers/rewards, create an organization so employees can donate on the company’s behalf (e.g. https://opencollective.

August 2017 Investors Update

August 2017 Investors Update

Dear investors, here is the update for August 2017

July 2017 Investors update

July 2017 Investors update

Dear investors, we now have closed the round. All the money is in the bank. Welcome aboard! We are grateful to have the opportunity to have…

June 2017 Investors update

June 2017 Investors update

After a 6 month hiatus (for good reasons because we were fundraising and regulations don’t allow us to publicly solicitate), here is our…

The blind spot of Silicon Valley

I lived in San Francisco for 7 years then moved last year to NYC. I was back there for a week pitching investors. The distance helps me…

Turning Our City into an Open Collective

As nation states are increasingly disconnected from reality, how can we enable citizens to reclaim their cities? In Brussels, we are…

January 2017 Investors update

We strongly believe in the value of being open and transparent. In that spirit, we decided to start publishing our email update to…

From Firms to Collectives

Moving beyond the old model of private firms to create economic value together.

Money and Open Source Communities

Ever since we announced our new service to enable open source communities to collect money from backers and sponsors, the same question…

A New Way to Fund Open Source Projects

Goodwill only takes you so far. Here is a new way to fund open source projects that aligns the interests of companies with open source…

Playing the long game

Our goal with OpenCollective is to build a global infrastructure on top of which anyone can start an association anywhere in the world as…

Pia Mancini and Aseem Sood join OpenCollective as cofounders

I’m super excited to announce that Pia and Aseem are both joining the OpenCollective adventure. They are both remarkable people with very…

A New Form of Association for the Internet Generation — part 2

How can we do things together that require money without having to worry about the complexity of creating and maintaining legal entities?