trixbox | The Open Platform for Business Telephony

(Desperately trying to leave office on Friday before sun goes down)

I am intending for this blog to be more about startups and my experience as a successful entrepreneur in the tech space than about VoIP, open source, or my own company specifically.

As a 33-year "old" serial entrepreneur (I hate that term, makes me feel like I store body parts in my freezer), I have come to find a lot of repeatable lessons in building businesses. See, Fonality is my third startup and third round of playing a CEO/Janitor on TV, and things are starting make more sense now ...

Really, my favorite thing to do (besides try to kill myself in high speed fossil-fuel machines) is to breed entrepreneurialism. So, I want to dedicate this blog more to that then I do forward-leaning statements about VoIP, Open Source, or the tech industry.

That being said, it has been a crazy week since the launch of trixbox Pro. The flames have died down and most people that were hating on me for killing the open sourciness of trixbox, now realize that trixbox has not changed and is not going anywhere. The others...well...will probably always hate me. The funny thing is most of them are also trying to make businesses out of open source, and they just don't like the way *I* am trying to do it too.

Peeps have been asking me about my vision of hybrid-hosted, what I mean by "Janitor" and where the market is headed. So, today, I got a chance to do a fun podcast with Rich Tehrani, one of the godfathers of VoIP, and Prez of TMC. It's an interesting listen!

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Chris Lyman
Fonality CEO & Janitor