The Angel VC

Thoughts on Internet startups, SaaS and early-stage investing from Christoph Janz @ Point Nine Capital.

Saturday, November 30, 2013

The 8th DO for SaaS startups - Stay on top of your KPIs

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“What gets measured gets done” – it seems like the source of this quote, often attributed to management expert Peter Drucker, isn’t certai...
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Monday, November 04, 2013

Impressions from the PNC SaaS Founder Meetup 2013

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A little more than a week ago we did the second PNC SaaS Founder Meetup. Around the same time a year ago we organized our first SaaS Founder...
Thursday, October 24, 2013

Excel template for cohort analyses in SaaS

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[Note: This post first appeared as a guest post on Andrew Chen's blog . Andrew is a writer and entrepreneur and has written a large numb...
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Monday, September 16, 2013

The 7th DO for SaaS startups – Build a repeatable, profitable sales process

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The last post in my series on DOs and DON'Ts for early-stage startups was about lead generation . The next logical step is sales, and so...
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Monday, August 05, 2013

Failure IS an option

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Failure may not have been an option for the Apollo 13 mission , but it certainly is an option for startups. In fact, since statistically the...
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Saturday, July 13, 2013

I'm selling my SaaS dashboard and all it costs is a tweet

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My financial planning sheet for SaaS startups , my KPI dashboard for SaaS startups  and my "9 Horror Worst Practices in SaaS Metrics...
Sunday, June 23, 2013

9 Worst Practices in SaaS Metrics

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9 Horror Worst Practices in SaaS Metrics As mentioned in my last post , I recently did a talk about SaaS metrics and I said I'm goi...
Monday, June 10, 2013

KPIs for VCs

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Example for a Geckoboard KPI dashboard Last week I spent a day in Stockholm to attend a metrics seminar organized by our friends at Crea...
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Saturday, May 18, 2013

Ideas we'd like to invest in: Mobile-first SaaS

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Following my posts about electronic signing and vertical SaaS , here's another area that we're very interested in: SaaS solutio...
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Sunday, April 14, 2013

Ideas we'd like to invest in: Industry-specific SaaS solutions

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Following my post about electronic signing I'd like to describe another area that we'd like to invest in. It's not a specific i...
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Thursday, April 11, 2013

A KPI dashboard for early-stage SaaS startups

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[Update 12/20/2013: I have extended the dashboard to include multiple pricing tiers and annual subscription plans. Check it out here .] [U...
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Thursday, April 04, 2013

Ideas we'd like to invest in

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Inspired by Paul Graham’s “Startup Ideas We’d Like to Fund” post of a few years ago I’d like to start a series of posts about ideas that I ...
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Monday, March 18, 2013

The 6th DO for SaaS startups – Fill the funnel

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Here's another post in my series on DOs and DON'Ts for early-stage SaaS startups : 6th DO for SaaS startups Fill the funnel O...
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Thursday, February 21, 2013

Why I'm happy to be a micro VC

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Last week we announced the closing of our new fund, Point Nine Capital II. The most important information about the new fund is include...
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Thursday, February 07, 2013

Do you have what it takes to become a truffle pig?

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A few weeks ago, Fabian , who worked as Point Nine's associate from the very beginning, has left to create his own startup, Wunsch Braut...
Monday, February 04, 2013

The 5th DO for SaaS startups – Get your pricing right

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Following some advice on choosing the right market ( here and here ), building a team with product/tech DNA  and the importance of an aweso...
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Saturday, January 12, 2013

Unscalable hacks

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Recently I stumbled on the term "unscalable hack", in a blog post by Chris Dixon . This really struck a chord with me because it...
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Monday, December 17, 2012

The 4th DO for SaaS startups – Make your website your best marketing person

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If you're building a modern SaaS solution for the Fortune 5,000,000 , the importance of your marketing website cannot be overstated. In ...
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Thursday, December 06, 2012

Software is eating the world, but the smartphone is pretty hungry too

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Last August, Marc Andreessen wrote a great essay titled "Why software is eating the world" . In his article, which got a lot of a...
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