Presentation by Drupal CMS Founder Dries Buytaert in the Afternoon Plenary Session at iMinds The Conference 2014 www.iminds.be

1. STARTUP
LESSONS 5 DRIES BUYTAERT
Twitter: @dries
Email: dries@buytaert.net

2. Founded Drupal
Co-founded Acquia
Co-founded Mollom
Co-founded
Drupal Association
Hold a PhD in CS
Photo geek
ME

3. where I started Drupal
Student dorm, Antwerp
Compiler books
IKEAfurniture Assembly books
Chess board
Stamp collection

4. 2.5% of the web
2,000+
contributors to Drupal 8 core
15,000+ contributed modules
FREE to everyone
1in50sites worldwide
run on Drupal.

5. Organization Type Funding Status
Drupal Community Bootstrapped 2.5% of web,
10k+ CONTRIBUTORS
Drupal
Association Non-profit Bootstrapped ~$5M REVENUE
25 EMPLOYEES
Acquia For-profit
RAISED
$100M+
~$100M REVENUE
500+ employees
Mollom For-profit Bootstrapped Sold
current activities

6. How people think you spend your days...

7. REALITY

8. STARTUP
LESSONS
5

9. Business model INNOVation
vs technical innovation
01.

12. zero-marginal-cost production

13. Drupal

14. Freedom to
study the
program
re-distribute
the program
run the
program
modify the
program
DRUPAL iS
open source

16. Open Source
Collaboration
Community
Innovation

17. scaling is
always hard
0

18. 2005:
The big Drupal
server meltdown.

19. $10,000
in donations
OSL offered
free hosting
Sun shipped
a server

21. COMPANIES ARE
ALWAYS A BIT
BROKEN

22. LEARN SALES &
MARKETING
0

23. MAXIMIZE YOUR IMPACT
ON THE WORLD
0

24. IN 2004:
DEMOCRATIZE
ONLINE PUBLISHING

25. NOW:
SUPPORT DIGITAL BUSINESS
TRANSFORMATION

30. WE SAVED THE WORLD.
UNIVERSE

32. DO WELL,
DO GOOD.http://buytaert.net/do-well-do-good

33. do well do good

34. TEAM IS ALL
that MATTERS
05.

35. The only thing between
a market opportunity
and success is a good team

36. 1. Business model innovation
2. Scaling is always hard
3. Learn sales and marketing
4. Maximize your impact on the world
5. Team is all that matters
5 lessons:
Thank you!
Contact: http://buytaert.net/contact
Twi%er:
@Dries
Blog:
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