Our Community Loves Our Free Product: Now What?
- Goals for the Session
- Background
- The Steps to Monetization
- Moving from Community to Commercialization
- Recognizing When It's Time to Transition
- The Best Routes to Monetization
- Communities: Independent and Enterprise
- Beyond Research, Pricing and Packaging

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