Goals Quote by Stephen O’Grady

“Developers are the most-important, most-valuable constituency in business today, regardless of industry. Technologists newly empowered with tools, hyper-connected via specialized collaboration and communication networks,…

— Stephen O’Grady

“full stack startups are those whose focus extends to each layer necessary to deliver the desired user experience.”

— Stephen O’Grady

“The fact is that the majority of software businesses today are leaving money on the table by focusing strictly on the production and delivery…

— Stephen O’Grady

“Given two technologies, the one that’s easier to obtain, configure, and use will usually be the one that wins. Convenience trumps features  —  even…

— Stephen O’Grady

“The ascendance of open source is not altruistic; it’s simply good business for contributors and consumers alike. But the reason it’s good business is…

— Stephen O’Grady

“With the cost of development down by an order of magnitude or more, the throttle on developer creativity has been removed, setting the stage…

— Stephen O’Grady

“Open core/hybrid source Probably the most common model today, open core describes an open source project that is partially, even mostly, open source, but…

— Stephen O’Grady

“As such, the company’s value from a technology perspective isn’t software, strictly speaking, but rather outsourced effort. Any business can download and run software…

— Stephen O’Grady

“So if open source is cannibalizing the commercial software markets, it’s all smooth sailing for those who commercialize open source, right? Well, not exactly.…

— Stephen O’Grady

“By combining software with another, more readily monetized product — services, in this case — Amazon is able to efficiently extract profit from a…

— Stephen O’Grady

“It is a paradox that the economic value of software is falling even as its strategic value rises, and paradoxes are by definition challenging…

— Stephen O’Grady

“There are many potential explanations for the less-than-robust performance, but IBM’s current strategy suggests that one component at least is a challenge to the…

— Stephen O’Grady