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Truffle pig reloaded – Point Nine is looking for an Associate

The Angel VC

About three years ago, we were looking for an Associate to join Point Nine and put up this landing page : We called the position "truffle pig", because just like a truffle pig is digging up the best truffles from the ground, we as an early-stage VC try to find the best startups among a large number of potential investments. I have to give full credit for the truffle pig analogy to Mathias Schilling and Thomas Gieselmann of e.ventures, by the way.

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Why Drive-by Marketing Doesn’t Work

Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

So you’ve just shipped your new software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution, and for sure you’re eager to tell the world: get out a press announcement, roll-out a search engine marketing campaign, sign-up for industry events, and whatever else you can think of. Here’s some advice: Slow down. As tough as it is to resist the urge to do something , hold off a bit before going full blast with all this marketing activity.

Marketing 113
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Inside-Outside-Bias in Startups

Tom Tunguz

Daniel Kahneman wrote about his experiences with the inside/outside bias. Kahneman, a team of graduate students, and the Dean of the Hebrew University School of Education collaborated on curriculum for judgment and decision-making for high schools. At one point, Kahneman surveyed his team to estimate the amount of time remaining to complete project.

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Impostor syndrome: How to stop feeling like a fraud

CloseSaaS

Ever get the feeling you have no idea what you’re doing? That everyone else has it all figured out? That you are the only person who doesn’t have all the answers? Ever find yourself saying,“If only I was more like them, everything wouldn’t be so hard”? Bull.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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The Optimal Seed Round Strategy - Timing and Size

Tom Tunguz

About one third of US startups that raise a seed round raise a Series A. The larger the seed investment, the greater the odds the company successfully raises the next round. A $500,000 seed round results in a series A 20% of the time, while $1.5M seed increases the chances to 30%, an increase of half. larger seed rounds enable early-stage companies to experiment more, hire more aggressively, recover from mistakes better and attain more of the milestones necessary to raise a series A.

Strategy 100

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Inflation and Deflation in the Startup Fundraising Market

Tom Tunguz

Over the last six years, seed rounds have grown in size by 12% annually. Series As have grown by 14%, series Bs by 9%, series Cs by 14% and series Ds by 11%. In that same timeframe, the median series A and series C has doubled. Median seed rounds have more than tripled in size. This tripling of seed round sizes is a recent phenomenon, taking place in the first quarter of 2016.

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How to recruit your first top-notch sales rep for your startup

CloseSaaS

Most startups suck at outbound sales recruiting. They either recruit too early, or too late. Too aggressively, or too passively. They pursue the wrong candidates, or no candidates at all (fyi: good salespeople are not going to come to you).

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Sales team management: How to inspire change from within

CloseSaaS

Your latest sales strategy isn’t working. Your team is losing steam, close rates are down, and your lead pipeline is almost empty.

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Integration: Send sales documents from Close with tracking and eSigning using GetAccept

CloseSaaS

We are happy to announce that we have a new seamless integration with GetAccept that gives you the possibility to send and track your sales documents with a single click.

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6 Reasons Why Your Integrated Payments Strategy Could Fail

If you're in the software industry grappling with integrating payments into your business model, understanding where others have stumbled can be a game-changer for your revenue goals. Discover 6 key reasons behind the struggles many face. The challenge goes beyond the technicalities of integrating a payment system; it delves into the strategic oversight of revenue shares, negotiations with payment providers, and the full exploitation of potential revenue streams.