South by Southwest is an opportunity to engage with the global startup ecosystem. Every year Austin’s most popular festival serves as a chance to meet and connect with founders, learn about industry trends, and share our point of view with a new (and often global)...
At Golden Section, we’ve found that one of the best ways to ensure the success of our founders is through weekly syncs with our Founder Success Analysts (FSAs). We view FSAs as fractional operating partners that we deploy to our portcos as a crucial part of our...
Image created by the Author using Midjourney The term "software" was coined by American statistician John Wilder Tukey in a 1958 article titled "The Teaching of Concrete Mathematics." The introduction of this term helped distinguish the intangible aspects of...
— The Art and Science of Decision-Making for Entrepreneurs Yogi Berra once famously quipped, "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." As perplexing as this advice may initially seem, it serves as a fitting reminder of the many decisions we face throughout our...
Runway. To founders, this ominous word can summon up images of both success and failure. With sufficient runway, your startup can sail along smoothly, with little turbulence to disturb it as it reaches milestone after milestone. With insufficient runway, however,...
Founders of B2B SaaS startups are often involved in the painstaking details of product development at the early stage of their company. We’ve seen two paths that founders at this stage tend to follow: either they invest heavily in building their own product dev team...
In Golden Section’s Houston office, a pair of Don Quixote bookends adorns the shelf. I purchased these a few years ago not only to organize some paperbacks but as a reminder that the journey of entrepreneurship is never a breeze, and may even invite laughter from time...
As a founder, you may think that startup valuation is only something that investors consider when deciding whether to take the leap with your company or not. But this isn’t the case — startup valuation is important for founders too. In fact, the valuation of your...
