The Angel VC

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

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Bored Meetings vs. Board Meetings

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One thing I've been thinking about for a while is how to make Board Meetings as effective as possible. If you want to read some great po...
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011

What we look for in early-stage SaaS startups

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I recently wrote that investors (myself included) should do a better job of making their investment criteria transparent to founders. Today...
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Monday, August 01, 2011

The land of a thousand niches

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I just came across a great blog which I hadn't been aware of yet: " VC Matters " (100 points if you get the pun), written by R...
Monday, July 18, 2011

Greetings from the dark side

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It's not really news any more because we've already announced it a few weeks ago, and TechCrunch and Gruenderszene wrote about it ...
Wednesday, June 01, 2011

Saying "no"

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Being an angel investor is a fantastic job. Every day you meet great new people, cool products, exciting technologies and interesting new bu...
Sunday, March 20, 2011

Developers, developers, developers…developers, developers, developers

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If there’s one thing that all fast-growing technology startups have in common, it’s that they’re constantly looking for great devel...
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Friday, February 25, 2011

"Launching a web startup became 10x cheaper..."

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The conventional wisdom is that starting a web business is (at least) 10x less expensive today than it was 10-15 years ago. It’s s...
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Friday, February 04, 2011

Geckoboard – Your Business in Real-Time

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I’m thrilled to announce that together with Robin Klein at Index Ventures , Dave McClure ’s 500 Startups fund and my friend and former Atl...
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

To ask or not to ask (for the user's credit card), that is the question

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I've just answered a question on Quora and thought it might be worth cross-posting it here. Just in case there's still someone who ...
Monday, January 10, 2011

Portfolio Update Part 4

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Here's the fourth and last part of my 2010 portfolio update. The first three are here , here and here . The last (but definitely not le...
Tuesday, January 04, 2011

Portfolio Update Part 3

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Here's the third part of my 2010 portfolio review. If you're new here, please start with part 1 , move on to part 2 and then (hopefu...
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Sunday, December 26, 2010

Portfolio Update Part 2

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Continuing my little 2010 portfolio review ( here's part 1 ), the next stop after San Francisco ( Zendesk ), Vancouver ( Clio ) and Berl...
Saturday, December 25, 2010

Portfolio update (part 1)

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As 2010 is drawing to a close I’d like to take a moment to give you a quick update on my angel investment activities and more importantly, t...
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Monday, January 04, 2010

Keeping your "friends" list up-to-date

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If you're reading this, chances are that you use at least three of four different social networking sites (or social bookmarking tools, ...
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Thursday, September 24, 2009

Escaping spreadsheet hell

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Have you ever seen someone get excited about accounting software ? Yes, I mean the kind of software for which you used to need a diploma in ...
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Monday, August 17, 2009

Paul Graham on Enterprise Software

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A link in today's TechCrunch posting about Y Combinator's "Request for Startups" idea brought me to an earlier "Star...
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009

The Europas - Cast your votes!

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"The Europas" , the tech award that was brought into being by TechCrunch UK 's Mike Butcher ( profile , Twitter account ), is ...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Guy Kawasaki's fun email signature

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I just got an email from the famous (and with respect to his Twitter activity, some would say infamous) Guy Kawasaki . His email signature i...
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Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Zendesk - Help Desk 2.0

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Following my long-due update on Pageflakes here’s an update on what I’ve been doing since I’ve left Pageflakes. After spending some time wi...
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Monday, February 02, 2009

An update on Pageflakes

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It’s again been a very long time that I wrote something here, and an even longer time that I wrote about Pageflakes or about what I’ve been...
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