The Angel VC

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

Sunday, May 13, 2018

10 Observations from Dropbox's S1

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In last week's post I shared some thoughts about Dropbox and why, although Dropbox is unquestionably one of the most amazing SaaS compa...
Friday, May 04, 2018

Dropbox, the ultimate Mouse Hunter

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I’m late to the party here, I know. Dropbox went public a bit more than a month ago and I’ve finally had a chance to take a close look at t...
Sunday, February 18, 2018

Quick thoughts about Blogger and Medium. Plus: The 2018 SaaS Funding Napkin!

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I usually use this blog when I write new posts. Occasionally I re-publish selected posts on our Medium channel . Lately, however, I've o...
Tuesday, December 05, 2017

We’re looking for an Associate

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I’m very excited to announce that we’re looking for a new Associate. In all modesty, I think that for a young, smart person who’s passiona...
Friday, December 01, 2017

How public SaaS companies report churn, and what you can learn from them

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While doing some research for another post I just stumbled on this excellent overview from Pacific Crest on the churn rates of publicly l...
Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Getting feedback from your Board

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After a Clio Board Meeting last week I received the following email from Jack Newton, the company's amazing co-founder & CEO. Hi ...
Saturday, November 18, 2017

Unsure how much you should pay yourself? Check out this Founder Salary Calculator.

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[July 21, 2023] There’s a newer version of this post , including an updated calculator . Founder salaries are not a topic I’ve had to spend ...
Wednesday, October 04, 2017

Knowing when to scale (and how to prove that you can do it)

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When you’re talking to investors about a Series B, Series C or later round, one of the questions that will inevitably come up is “What are y...
Friday, August 25, 2017

A sneak peek into Point Nine's investment thesis

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Over the last couple of weeks and months we spent some time putting our investment thesis on paper. The purpose of this exercise was to ch...
Wednesday, July 05, 2017

WTF is PMF? (part 2 of 2)

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In the first part of this post , I looked at what some of the most knowledgeable people in the industry said about Product/Market Fit (PMF) ...
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

WTF is PMF? (part 1 of 2)

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I’ve been fascinated by the concept of Product/Market Fit for quite some time. The reason why it’s such an interesting and important concept...
Wednesday, May 17, 2017

The growing dissonance between two business models (SaaS and VC)

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In our weekly investment team call earlier this week we decided to pass on two early-stage SaaS startups that were both on track to grow f...
Friday, May 05, 2017

Revisiting Point Nine’s tech stack. Plus: 7 little hacks that help me keep (some of my) sanity

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[This post first appeared on Point Nine Land, our Medium channel .] A few years ago I wrote about some of the tools that we’re using to ru...
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