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Note: This article first appeared as a guest post on the popular KISSmetrics blog . Thanks to Hiten Shah and Sean Work  at KISSmetrics for...

Today is a very special day for me as as an entrepreneur and investor. About an hour ago, Zendesk went public on the New York Stock Excha...

I've just added three new charts to my Excel template for cohort analysis . The first one shows the MRR development of several custo...

My colleague Nicolas wrote a great guide with tips and tricks on how to do cohort analyses which I'd like to share with the readers o...

More than two years ago I wrote about what we look for in early-stage SaaS startups . Since then we've looked at hundreds of SaaS star...

I recently participated in Marco Montemagno's SuperSummit and gave a webinar about the topic "Measuring your SaaS success". ...

Some time ago I wrote that we at Point Nine love to eat our own dog food . That is, we run Point Nine  almost exclusively on Cloud apps. We...

Who ever said only startups love vanity metrics? Here's our revenge for all those misleading stats that we have to muddle through almost...

First of all, a Happy New Year to all readers of this blog. I hope you've had a great start into the new year, and I wish you a happy, h...

[Update 01/17/2015: There's a new company called  ChartMogul  ( which we invested in ) which makes it easy to get a real-time dashboard ...

Last night I returned from a 2-day offsite with the Point Nine team (in Schlepzig, of all places). Our (small) full-time team more than do...

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

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...

[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...

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...

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...

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

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...