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B2B SaaS as an Asset Class
B2B SaaS as an Asset Class: What Is It and What Founders Should Focus On Traditionally, there have been three main asset classes, groups of similar investments. These have been equities (stocks), fixed income (bonds), and cash equivalent (money market instruments)....
Why Founders Need to Care about Capital Efficiency
Launching a successful startup isn’t about getting huge investments, sky-high valuations, or experiencing massive growth. It’s about sustainability. As a founder, you can’t only be concerned with how your startup does this quarter or this year — you want to be...
The Importance of Patience in the Software Development Process
Good software takes patience to form into the right cultural fit; complete with the nuances that will ensure permanence. Patience, hard thing! the hard thing but to pray, But bid for, Patience is! Patience who asks Wants war, wants wounds; weary his times, his tasks;...
Focus On What Matters, Not Capital, is the Key Discipline, the Necessary Ingredient of Early-Stage Software.
Customers screaming for features, employees demanding pet projects, competitors encroaching… These are the day-dream nightmares of early-stage software founders. The inputs and feedback hurl toward the founder like a swarm of mosquitoes. It is the perfect environment...
Product Efficiency: An Essential Measure for B2B SaaS Founders
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 in the...
Reducing the Shadow of What May Come With Customers by Delivering a Full Half Product instead of Half-Done Full Product
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...
Guide Services – 5x the value in ½ the time
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