Satish Dharmaraj on Getting Traction [video]

Wrt to Zimbra

--Decision to go open source and how to create/manage/promote that community, e.g. don't handicap it, etc.

--Decision to launch at a big conference to jump start that open source community, which most people don't do.

--Decision to go stealth and launch with a slew of features previously unseen in the market, which most companies don't do.

--Decision to seize upon trends upon launch, in this case Google maps.

Then in general

--Focusing on finding the engagement in product and iterating on it, as opposed to 1000 other areas where you can focus

--Focusing on finding a good idea in the first place, which is a contrarian argument because most people think ideas are worthless

I could go on...

I've seen these types of comments before. I don't know if it's because I've watched this three times now or I'm just reading between the lines or what. I'm not sure what you're looking for and would be interested to know, but there is a lot here!