The Angel VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

(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 time. To help you a little bit with your planning, here are three little tools that you might find useful. If you're a long-time reader of this blog, you may have seen them before. 1. Growth Calculator This little tool allows you to enter your MRR as of the end of 2016 and a target growth factor for 2017.

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CloseSaaS

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Any great salesperson knows that you want to make it as simple as possible for your prospect to take the next step. Yet, so many reps send out sales emails that make their prospects do all the heavy lifting. (Most of the time, prospects won’t. They just delete the email. Opportunity lost.

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Hacking Revenue

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

Far too many founders fall into the trap of thinking their products are too good to not be noticed. Here’s a fair warning for you: Your product will not be noticed. This optimistic misconception is likely a large contributing factor to the 14% startup failure rate, due to poor marketing. That myth isn’t alone. There are plenty of other misconceptions founders make and end up regretting.

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Sixteen Ventures

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

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Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Numbers provide us a certain certainty. With their precision, they offer a sense of black and white, in or out. But, metrics alone aren’t enough. All the quantitative analysis in the world won’t lead me to the next great idea for startup. Those figures can’t create empathy, develop the right culture, or hire the right people. I’ve been thinking about this quite a bit because in both the recent Software Engineering Daily podcast I did with Jeff, and the presentation I gave

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