It's no coincidence that several of the companies which recently found themselves hurt by being locked out of APIs did not heed:
"Rule #1: Sell something" - several had no evident source of revenue and as the article says "if your company isn’t selling something, you have a project, not a product"
"Rule #7: Avoid products that rely on a community to exist". As these projects found, when the community (or truckload of data) is taken away from you, you no longer exist.
"Rule #1: Sell something" - several had no evident source of revenue and as the article says "if your company isn’t selling something, you have a project, not a product"
"Rule #7: Avoid products that rely on a community to exist". As these projects found, when the community (or truckload of data) is taken away from you, you no longer exist.
A good article with pragmatic tips.