The Angel VC

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Last week, we've held our third annual SaaS Founder Meetup in San Francisco. Following the first PNC SaaS Founder Meetup in San Francisco in 2012 and the second one in 2013 in Berlin, this has become a tradition for us: Once a year we're bringing together the founders of our SaaS portfolio companies, co-investors and leading experts for a full day of intensive knowledge sharing.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The real promise of the Internet of Things isn’t simply linking millions of devices together, just like the real innovation of the web wasn’t networking a bunch of computers. Instead, the true and still unrealized potential of IoT is to transform business models; it’s enabling companies to sell products in entirely new and better ways that benefit both the company and the customer.

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Airlines Payment Services Business Payments 108

CloseSaaS

OCTOBER 28, 2014

In SaaS sales, it’s not enough to sell your customers on buying your product. You need to sell them on using it too! Many founders underestimate how much this matters, and their SaaS startups will never gain traction until they get this right.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 30, 2014

It’s Q3 earnings season and about half of the major public tech companies and recent startup IPOs have reported their figures. I keep track of earnings to get a sense for how these companies perceive their markets. Meeting or exceeding earnings indicates companies can forecast their growth and demonstrates how predictable these businesses are.

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Marketing Forecasting Startup Enterprise 100

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 28, 2014

At some point, most startups will begin to measure their customers’ happiness. Customer satisfaction is an important predictor of loyalty and can foster fantastically efficient word-of-mouth growth. Many companies employ Net Promoter Score to quantify customer satisfaction. NPS measures the fraction of a customer base which are promoters and detractors of a company’s product.

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CloseSaaS

OCTOBER 29, 2014

One of our reps was in the process of selling our inside sales CRM to a pretty large company. They had sales teams all over the world, and their US team manager loved our product, and wanted to champion it within the company.

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CloseSaaS

OCTOBER 27, 2014

We just launched several improvements around setting up email accounts in Close. You can see and take advantage of these changes on the redesigned Email Settings page.

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CloseSaaS

OCTOBER 30, 2014

On March 5th earlier this year, our customers couldn’t use Close to make calls for a couple of hours because of a technical problem with our telephony provider.

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CloseSaaS

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Earlier this year I gave a workshop in Austria for the probably coolest bunch of bankers I've ever met.

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