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Published in Point Nine Land

·Mar 14

Cash management at startups

Easy-to-implement tips and tricks to keep your money safe — As I said on Twitter yesterday, most (if not almost all) VCs — ourselves included — have failed to talk to founders about where they store their cash. We spend enormous amounts of time discussing runway, burn, and financing with founders. But if a startup has stored its cash…

Venture Capital

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Cash management at startups
Cash management at startups
Venture Capital

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Published in Point Nine Land

·Feb 25

Apples plus oranges?

How to show different revenue streams in vertical SaaS — A few weeks ago, our portfolio company Jobber announced (besides a $100M Series D) that its 200,000 customers — small businesses that provide home services like lawn care, plumbing, residential cleaning, and painting — have earned $13 billion in revenue in 2022. …

SaaS

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Apples plus oranges?
Apples plus oranges?
SaaS

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Published in Point Nine Land

·Jan 27

Quick thoughts on ChatGPT and why it matters for SaaS startups

Yesterday I published a brief LinkedIn post with a few thoughts on ChatGPT and the implications for SaaS companies. The posting prompted (no pun intended) many interesting comments, so I wanted to re-post a (slightly polished and extended) version here. As we enter month 3 CE (ChatGPT Era), I’d like…

AI

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Quick thoughts on ChatGPT and why it matters for SaaS startups
Quick thoughts on ChatGPT and why it matters for SaaS startups
AI

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Published in Point Nine Land

·Nov 11, 2022

What’s your hierarchy of goals?

A simple framework that might help you with your 2023 planning — With only six weeks left in 2022, I’d like to share some thoughts that might be useful for founders as they start to think about their budgets and plans for 2023. Given how much the market has changed this year, planning ahead for 2023 is different from any other year…

2023

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What’s your hierarchy of goals?
What’s your hierarchy of goals?
2023

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Published in Point Nine Land

·Jul 30, 2022

What does it take to raise capital, in SaaS, in 2022?

We’re excited to share the new version of the SaaS Funding Napkin. — SaaS Funding Napkin?! If you have no idea what we’re talking about, it means one of two things: either you are pretty new to SaaS, or it’s been way too long since we published the last version of the napkin. Either way, if this is the first time you’ve heard…

Venture Capital

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What does it take to raise capital, in SaaS, in 2022?
What does it take to raise capital, in SaaS, in 2022?
Venture Capital

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Published in Point Nine Land

·May 10, 2022

Hyper-growth is great, but don’t die while trying

How to avoid bad surprises when you’re planning for fast growth — Companies perform according to plan … until they don’t. That’s a tautology/joke, obviously. What I mean is that it quite frequently happens that companies go from “more or less according to plan” to quite drastically below plan in just a couple of months. There are a few mathematical and psychological…

SaaS

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Hyper-growth is great, but don’t die while trying
Hyper-growth is great, but don’t die while trying
SaaS

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Published in Point Nine Land

·Apr 5, 2022

Twitter is not working on an edit button

A few weeks ago, I put out a few tweets about our investment in Heygo. When I noticed a misleading typo in one of the tweets a few hours later, I was reminded that Twitter doesn’t allow you to edit a tweet once it’s published. …

Twitter

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Twitter is not working on an edit button
Twitter is not working on an edit button
Twitter

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Published in Point Nine Land

·Mar 15, 2022

Why we invested in Athenian

If you take a look at a 50 person sales team, you’ll likely find it to be very data-driven. The team will typically track dozens of pipeline metrics and variables to help: focus on the right leads and allocate them to the right AE create playbooks that increase conversion…

P9family

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Why we invested in Athenian
Why we invested in Athenian
P9family

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Published in Point Nine Land

·Feb 3, 2022

Can a startup have two CEOs?

If you’re starting a company with a co-founder, you have to, at some point, decide who takes what role. In many cases it’s obvious from the get-go or becomes clear early on. The more tech-savvy co-founder becomes the CTO, and the more commercially-oriented one becomes the CEO. But sometimes, companies…

Startup

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Can a startup have two CEOs?
Can a startup have two CEOs?
Startup

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Published in Point Nine Land

·Sep 7, 2021

5 Learnings from the Zendesk of HR, AKA Factorial

How Factorial is building a global SaaS winner from Barcelona, and why you should always listen to your dentist — Yesterday, P9 Family member Factorial announced an $80 million Series B led by Tiger Global. The additional capital and the support of Tiger Global will help further Factorial’s mission to build the Zendesk of HR, as Reid Christian of CRV (who led the Series A) put it. In the last…

SaaS

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5 Learnings from the Zendesk of HR, AKA Factorial
5 Learnings from the Zendesk of HR, AKA Factorial
SaaS

6 min read

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Christoph Janz

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Internet entrepreneur turned angel investor turned micro VC. Managing Partner at http://t.co/5WJ3Pepbcv.

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