The Angel VC

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

Sunday, April 02, 2017

Why startups should hire an HR person sooner rather than later

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At the excellent SaaStr Annual 2016 conference about a year ago, a very experienced SaaS CEO said on stage that an internal recruiter can b...
Wednesday, February 15, 2017

5 ways, 100 million dollars, 100 free posters

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I'm a big fan of placeit.net ;) If you're a reader of this blog, chances are that you've already come across my post about  ...
Monday, January 16, 2017

Impressions from the 5th annual PNC SaaS Founder Meetup (AKA PNC SaaS Camp)

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We have a tradition here at Point Nine that once a year, we organize a meetup for the founders of our SaaS portfolio companies. The first m...
Tuesday, January 10, 2017

SaaS Funding Napkin, the 2017 edition

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Today is January 10, 2017. That means that in ten days, this jerk will become the leader of the free world. Ugh. It still feels surreal to ...
Wednesday, December 28, 2016

What we're looking for in SaaS in 2017

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As the year is coming to an end I’d like to share a few thoughts on what we’ll be looking for in the SaaS world in 2017. This is not meant t...
Wednesday, November 23, 2016

3 (free) tools to help SaaS founders with their 2017 planning

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(As you can see, I really like placeit.net :) ) In case you haven't started to think about your plan for 2017 yet, now's the tim...
Monday, September 19, 2016

Should you take small checks from deep pockets?

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So you’ve recently started a company, you’ve started to talk to angel investors and seed funds about your seed round, and suddenly a large V...
Saturday, July 16, 2016

From "A as in Amiga" to "Z as in Zendesk"

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In the last few weeks I participated in a few interviews/discussions to talk about SaaS, entrepreneurship, venture capital and related topic...
Sunday, June 26, 2016

A better way to visualize pipeline development? (WIP)

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When founders show me their sales pipeline, the data is typically visualized in some variations of one of these formats: ...
Friday, June 03, 2016

SaaS Funding Napkin, the mobile-friendly edition

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My "SaaS Funding Napkin" , published a few days ago , got lots of love on Facebook, Twitter, etc. Thanks everybody! Some people (r...
Tuesday, May 31, 2016

What does it take to raise capital, in SaaS, in 2016?

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When we invest in a SaaS startup, which almost always happens at the seed stage, the next big milestone on the company’s roadmap is usually ...
Monday, April 11, 2016

Introducing the French Cloudscape

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For some reason we keep finding great early-stage SaaS startups in France, and it's not because of my command of the French language. In...
Wednesday, April 06, 2016

Truffle pig reloaded – Point Nine is looking for an Associate

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About three years ago, we were looking for an Associate to join Point Nine and put up this landing page : We called the position ...
Tuesday, March 29, 2016

SaaS Financial Plan 2.0 - bug fixes

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Since I published  v2 of my SaaS Financial Plan a few days ago, two alert readers have kindly pointed out two formula errors in the Excel s...
Wednesday, March 23, 2016

SaaS Financial Plan 2.0

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Almost exactly four years ago I published a financial plan template for SaaS startups based on a model that I had created for Zendesk a ...
Friday, March 11, 2016

Building any business is hard

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Judging from the number of Facebook likes and retweets, as well as comments on Twitter and elsewhere,  my last post resonated with quite a ...
Saturday, February 20, 2016

That’s a nice little $1-2M SaaS company you have here. Call me to discuss if it will scale!

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About two years ago, Josh Hannah of Matrix Partners wrote an excellent article titled “That's a nice little $40M eCommerce company you ...
Saturday, December 12, 2015

A simple tool to improve your 2016 planning

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In my last post I wrote about the problem with month-over-month growth rates . One of the issues I talked about was that when your reven...
Monday, November 30, 2015

The problem with month-over-month growth rates

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Most fundraising decks contain a slide with a chart that looks roughly like this: Chart #1 Or this: Chart #2 I’ve also seen ...
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