Thesis: The highest ROI for a founder is investing in the productive capacity of their people. Mechanical advantage in motion physics is the quantification of force amplification through using a tool. The concept explains the impact on weight handling from a...
Thesis: Software companies are leveraged-people-service firms. Man-hours are the input and man-hours saved are the output. The better your people, the better the machine. Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances...
The People Part Sitting at Rice University in the modern coffee shop on campus it is hard to not notice all the various types of people swirling about. The space is open and cold. The coldness of the esthetic exposes the viewer to the grove of oak trees...
The value of our partnership comes from the decades of combined experience our team has in building enterprise software companies. This experience spans industry sectors, funding strategies, organizational strategies and more. With Guide Services, we bring 5x the...
Software company founders face a range of paradoxes in scaling their company. One of them is thinking for the long term in product design. How should a founder design for the long term with a temporary material? It’s like asking an architect to build a classic...
Software companies are both an ecosystem on their own as well as participants in a cultural ecosystem. They are a complex balance of initiatives, demands, resources, and opportunities. And much like the Chihuahuan Desert, even small amounts of damage can have disastrous and long-lasting implications. Conversely, when operating in its unique balance, software companies are beautiful creators and maintainers of value for founders, customers, employees, and investors.
