Friday, June 13, 2014

Uber's Wonderlamp

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Uber's uber  large funding round has been the talk of the day in the tech community in the last week. And it should be, since it does...
Thursday, June 05, 2014

Learning More About That Other Half: The Case for Cohort Analysis and Multi-Touch Attribution Analysis (Part 2 of 2)

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Note: This is the second part of a post which first appeared on KISSmetrics' blog . The first part is here , and here is the original gu...
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Wednesday, June 04, 2014

Learning More About That Other Half: The Case for Cohort Analysis and Multi-Touch Attribution Analysis (Part 1 of 2)

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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...
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Thursday, May 15, 2014

It's a ZEN day!

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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...
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Wednesday, May 07, 2014

Three more ways to look at cohort data

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I've just added three new charts to my Excel template for cohort analysis . The first one shows the MRR development of several custo...
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Friday, March 14, 2014

Cohort Analysis: A (practical) Q&A [Guest Post]

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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...
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Monday, February 24, 2014

Four (more) things we look for in SaaS startups

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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...
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Saturday, February 22, 2014

Measuring your SaaS success

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I recently participated in Marco Montemagno's SuperSummit and gave a webinar about the topic "Measuring your SaaS success". ...
Saturday, February 08, 2014

Contactually + MailChimp = yummy

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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...
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Friday, January 17, 2014

We ♥ vanity metrics ;-)

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Who ever said only startups love vanity metrics? Here's our revenge for all those misleading stats that we have to muddle through almost...
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Friday, January 03, 2014

6 things SaaS founders should keep in mind in 2014

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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...
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Friday, December 20, 2013

A KPI dashboard for early-stage SaaS startups – new and improved!

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[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 ...
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Sunday, December 15, 2013

OKRs – objectives and key results

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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...
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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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