The Angel VC

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

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Financial planning for SaaS startups

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[Update 03/23/16: I've created an improved version of the template - check it out! ] A few people who read my recent post about financ...
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

A very brief history of Point Nine

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I just created a slide about the development of Point Nine Capital for a little company presentation and thought it might be useful if I pos...
Monday, March 05, 2012

Join Point Nine for a summer internship!

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We're looking for an intern – a great opportunity for a young, super-smart over-performer to get an inside view of an early-stage VC in ...
Sunday, March 04, 2012

Avoiding Parkinson's Law of Triviality in your financial plan

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In the last few years I've seen a lot of financial plans, and since we started Point Nine in the middle of last year that volume has be...
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

How does the ideal SaaS startup founder team look like?

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Last night I read this question on Quora : In general terms, what is the ideal size and make-up of a team for a pre-revenue SaaS startup? ...
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Monday, January 02, 2012

Bye-bye 2011, hello 2012

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It's that time of the year – you're looking back to the old year and you're reviewing your plans for the new one. The last year ...
Sunday, January 01, 2012

We came, saw and... invested

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Our last investment in the old year is a novelty for us – our first investment in a startup from Italy. Founded by 23 year old entrepreneur ...
Saturday, November 12, 2011

Targeting the Fortune 5,000,000

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I've just read on TechCrunch that Peter Thiel, famous among other things for making one of the best investments in the history of manki...
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Tuesday, November 01, 2011

Latst day to vote at The Europas

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On November 17, The Europas will be held , an annual awards for the Internet scene in Europa. My partners at Team Europe and Point Nine Capi...
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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