The Angel VC

JANUARY 17, 2014

Who ever said only startups love vanity metrics? Here's our revenge for all those misleading stats that we have to muddle through almost on a daily basis when startups pitch us! Yesterday I saw this post on the blog of Karlin Ventures. In response to a tweet by Paul Graham which was highlighted in Danielle Morrill's excellent Mattermark Daily newsletter, the guys at Karlin Ventures revealed the "days since last contact" numbers for their portfolio.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2014

Churn is one of the most important metrics for businesses. Churn dictates customer lifetime, lifetime value (CLV), customer acquisition spend and customer success spending. In short, churn is pivotal number to evaluate a startup’s business, both for founders/management teams and investors. Unfortunately, accurately measuring churn rates/lifetime value is more complex than I initially thought.

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Aber Law Firm

JANUARY 12, 2014

SaaS Indemnity – What Types of Insurance should a SaaS Company Purchase? Every SaaS company should have insurance , as any typical business should and would. However, there are a few significant differences that every SaaS company should be aware of (by the way, insurance is a form of indemnity = way to shift/move liability by contract). 1) Commercial General Insurance.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 13, 2014

In “Why Winning Streaks End” , Rosabeth Kantar, a professor at HBS, explains the key to maintaining momentum in any company is maintaining the discipline of every day processes. Similarly, Atul Gawande’s book Better echoes this idea. For surgeons, the best way to keep patients safe and healthy is ticking through a checklist before each surgery.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 15, 2014

On the heels of last week’s post about the Health of the Public Technology Market , Felix Salmon asked the thought-provoking question above. Despite the 68x growth in the value of technology market caps since 1980, are newer average technology companies worth less? Surprisingly, yes. The average public tech company value has falled by more than 2/3rds from $4.3B in the early 80s to $1.4B today, as measured in 2014 dollars.

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Aber Law Firm

JANUARY 12, 2014

SaaS Indemnity – What Types of Insurance should a SaaS Company Purchase? Every SaaS company should have insurance , as any typical business should and would. However, there are a few significant differences that every SaaS company should be aware of (by the way, insurance is a form of indemnity = way to shift/move liability by contract). 1) Commercial General Insurance.

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Aber Law Firm

JANUARY 12, 2014

SaaS Indemnity – What Types of Insurance should a SaaS Company Purchase? Every SaaS company should have insurance , as any typical business should and would. However, there are a few significant differences that every SaaS company should be aware of (by the way, insurance is a form of indemnity = way to shift/move liability by contract). 1) Commercial General Insurance.

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Aber Law Firm

JANUARY 12, 2014

SaaS Indemnity – What Types of Insurance should a SaaS Company Purchase? Every SaaS company should have insurance , as any typical business should and would. However, there are a few significant differences that every SaaS company should be aware of (by the way, insurance is a form of indemnity = way to shift/move liability by contract). 1) Commercial General Insurance.

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Aber Law Firm

JANUARY 12, 2014

SaaS Indemnity – What Types of Insurance should a SaaS Company Purchase? Every SaaS company should have insurance , as any typical business should and would. However, there are a few significant differences that every SaaS company should be aware of (by the way, insurance is a form of indemnity = way to shift/move liability by contract). 1) Commercial General Insurance.

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Aber Law Firm

JANUARY 12, 2014

Every SaaS company should have insurance , as any typical business should and would. However, there are a few significant differences that every SaaS company should be aware of (by the way, insurance is a form of indemnity = way to shift/move liability by contract). 1) Commercial General Insurance. This type of insurance generally protects business owners against claims of liability for bodily injury, property damage, and personal and advertising injury.

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