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Strategic Licensing for Your Open Source Startup

Your OSS license is your contract with the market. Pick it wisely.

8 hrs ago • Matt Trifiro

How to Calculate the Total Addressable Market (TAM) for Your Open Source Startup

Build your TAM from your own community data and a sharp Ideal Customer Profile, unit by unit.

Jun 27 • Matt Trifiro

What is COSS Go-to-Market?

From GitHub Stars to Enterprise Sales

Jun 26 • Matt Trifiro

Why COSS wins

The unbeatable financial advantages of commercial open source

Jun 25 • Matt Trifiro

May 2026

Why I Am Building This

I’ve spent three decades in technology, watching brilliant founders pour their hearts into building world-changing open-source projects.

May 24 • Matt Trifiro

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