by Dougal Cameron | Nov 24, 2022 | Blog, Product, SAAS Resources, Strategy & Playbooks
Creating a product is chaotic. Nothing about it is smooth or easy. In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche wrote “One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.” Good products require dealing with the chaos, embracing it...
by Dougal Cameron | Nov 18, 2022 | Blog, Product, Software Development, Startup Insights, Strategy & Playbooks, Technology
Customers don’t want the shadow of what may come, they look for the complete package. Reduce your story to fit the package you can deliver. Bringing a B2B software product to market is a resource game. It’s high stakes, but still just a resource game. And no founder...
by Dougal Cameron | Sep 22, 2022 | Blog, Startup Insights
The silent plodding of human ambition is a constant. Some call it greed or avarice. Some hail it as the wind in the sails of capitalism. But whether it is moral or not is independent of its danger. It blinds us to what matters. Its amnesia-like influence hides the...
by Dougal Cameron | Aug 26, 2022 | Blog, Funding, Startup Insights, Ventures
We believe that SAFE notes are bad for investors, founders, and the startup ecosystem. They are designed for early-stage venture funds to simplify the investment process and sideline the super-early-stage angels and friends and family that so often help get companies...
by Dougal Cameron | Mar 14, 2022 | Case Study, SAAS Resources, Software Development
Introduction Agave Lechuguilla in the Chihuahuan Desert An indicator species is a group of species whose status (function, population, health, etc) can reveal the underlying health of the ecosystem they inhabit. Understanding the health of an ecosystem is a complex...
