Sat.Nov 03, 2012 - Fri.Nov 09, 2012

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Yummy, dog food! Or: Running a VC fund in the Cloud

The Angel VC

Point Nine not only loves animals , we also love dog food. After all, some months ago we invested in ePetWorld , which runs hundeland.de , a fast-growing online shop for dog food and supplies. Today I'm going to talk about a different type of dog food though. If you know us a bit you'll know that we talk a lot about the Cloud. In our opinion, the move of software from the desktop or local servers to the Cloud, along with the consumerization of enterprise software and other developments that go h

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SaaS companies can't afford to sell

Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

Most companies offering a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution can't afford to sell it. I'm talking here about "selling" in the traditional sense: finding prospects and convincing them to buy a product or service. In some cases that's done with experienced sales executives working their Rolodex (or its electronic equivalent). Or it might be sold by a team of inside sales reps making cold calls from a purchased list.

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The trinity of product design

Tom Tunguz

Yesterday, I watched as a friend of mine created an Expensify account for his startup. He was trying the product for the first time. I took notes without saying much. The experience reminded me of the hours I spent in Google’s usability labs watching people use our AdSense Demographic Targeting beta product. In those sessions, I remember feeling a sense of excitement followed by frustration - even disillusionment.

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The culture of data science

Tom Tunguz

In a triumph of statistics, Nate Silver predicted the outcome of every state in the Presidential election correctly. What makes this story so noteworthy isn’t that it proves data enables superior decision-making to human intuition. We know the math works. Instead, Silver’s success highlights and challenges the prevailing culture, present in politics and in the workplace, that overvalues intuition and undervalues data.

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How Investors & Strategic Buyers Evaluate Integrated Payment Strategies

Explore how integrated payment strategies impact investor and buyer evaluations. Payments are more than a feature — they’re a key to long-term success and market differentiation. They help SaaS companies offer seamless user experiences and efficient operations. Investors and strategic buyers assess these integrated payment strategies as a measure of a company's growth potential and sustainability.

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Radio Ga Ga

Tom Tunguz

Must content platforms be reinvented every few years? Left to its own devices, the mob will augment, accessorize, spam, degrade and noisify whatever they have access to, until it loses beauty and function and becomes something else. Seth Godin. Given the noise and misinformation disseminated on Twitter both during the election and the Sandy disaster , I’ve been wondering how Godin’s thoughts apply to new information networks: blogs and feeds.

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The idea factory

Tom Tunguz

This morning, I listened to an interview of Jon Gertner who has published. a chronicle of Bell Labs called the Idea Factory. In his book and the interview, Gertner highlighted points about the Bell Labs that relate to Clay Christensen’s recent New York Times editorial, the Capitalist’s Dilemma. Bell Labs was a house of magic - a place of prodigious invention and innovation.