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Dec

VC Fred Wilson on Etsy's success

Many of the best companies we work with are based around both a profit motive and a “change the world” motive. Etsy has that in spades and you can get a good sense of it in the article. — fred-wilson

Is very cool to hear that. I’ve been thinking a lot about how to structure one project in particular. While I had thought that making it strictly open sourced/non-profit would help make it successful. I’ve been feeling lately that it partly needs a profit driven focus to do big things.