by Dougal Cameron | Nov 28, 2022 | Blog, Growth Insights, Startup Insights
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...
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 Isaac Shi | Sep 26, 2022 | Blog, Technology
We live in a world of constant changes This piece was originally written by Isaac Shi on January 15, 2013 More than 3000 years ago near the Yellow River basin, early Chinese language was invented. It was called Jia Gu Wen (means “shell bone writing”) because it was...
by Golden Section | Jun 24, 2022 | Blog, Case Study, Product, Software Development
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...