There's a headline that will wake up a lot of people ;-)
But seriously, we're interested in starting a more active dialog with community members on something that's very close to our hearts as a business: making money. You might even call it a Goal. Yes, we want to make the world a better place for business software users - but we also want to make sure we're striking the right balance of customer and community user value.
To that end, we'd really appreciate it if you could answer one question. Put very simply, what would you be willing to pay for?
Ned Lilly
In October 2001, Ned co-founded xTuple, originally called OpenMFG, with the aim of bringing the worlds of open platform software and enterprise resource planning (ERP) together to solve the unmet needs of small- to mid-sized manufacturers. In 1999, he was a co-founder of Great Bridge, an early business built around the PostgreSQL database which is also the core technology for xTuple today. Great Bridge was incubated inside Landmark Communications, a mid-sized media company where Ned directed corporate venture investments, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and startup activity. Prior to Landmark, Ned worked for a regional technology group in Washington D.C. and had a brief first career in political media — television, radio and a non-partisan news wire. He holds a B.A. from the University of Virginia and an M.A. from George Washington University.