Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Trying to Figure It All Out Yourself Without a Sherpa-Guide Okay, so you’re a technical or product founder. The best-performing startups led by technical or product founders also have investors or advisors who guide them through the early days (and often later years) of their journey. Which are you?

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 1, 2024

While funding is just a small part of the value we aim to provide our founders, we’re thrilled to share today that we’re dialing up our investment in the Spring 2024 and subsequent cohorts to $175,000 per team, up from $100,000. With that said, we are proud to announce TxO’s Spring 2024 cohort.

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Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Our investment in Graneet. Welcome Graneet Since Pawel and Christoph’s investment in Clio (which provides legal firms best in class software to run their business and was Point Nine’s #1 investment (!!)), our vertical SaaS portfolio has only grown further.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 17, 2018

OpenView is thrilled to announce our $31 million Series C investment in Applitools , the leading provider of AI-based automated visual testing and monitoring software. Applitools’ CTO, Adam Carmi, lived through this pain as VP R&D at Safend, where he worked alongside his Applitools cofounders, Gil Sever and Moshe Milman.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 10, 2020

It represents a significant long-term investment for your prospect, and the benefits are more challenging to define in a simple way. Let’s say your SaaS service helps investment-property owners manage their properties. It is delicious and is a simple way to enjoy a moment. But selling, for example, B2B pricing software?

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Kellblog

JULY 18, 2019

Their investments give them contractual rights (e.g., inside rounds) and strong reputations such that other VCs are willing and eager to invest behind them in future rounds [5]. Great startups are lead by strong technologists who ensure that technical debt is continuously addressed and retired via, e.g., trust releases.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 25, 2021

You need to track and analyze every move that you make, as this is the only way to focus on the tactics that are providing the best return on investment (ROI). It uses AI to help you find a cofounder, additional member, or advisor based on a certain set of criteria. Take, for example, its Analytics products.

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Audacix

MAY 27, 2022

Even if you don't have the budget for full-blown manual penetration testing, you should invest in a vulnerability scanning tool like Cyber Chief to help your developers shift left with security. Application security investments are like insurance policies. However, technical proficiency will only go so far.

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Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

Establishing relationships with advisors and/or mentors. The third stage is when other people can see what you are doing and now other companies try to copy and destroy you ,” explains Airbnb cofounder and CEO Brian Chesky. Continuing to invest in growth and experimentation to find additional opportunities.

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Saasler

MARCH 28, 2017

Jakob has a long history of working with early stage startups in a technical marketing role, and his thoughts can usually be found on industry blogs like Bi zible and Saascribe. “I ” Today, he gives back to the industry by investing heavily on new ventures, around 26 to be exact, including Stripe, Gusto, and Instacart.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 14, 2018

For example, in the reference above, Apple doesn’t technically discount their technology on Cyber Monday. For example, Peter Kazanjy , Cofounder of Atrium HQ , suggests saving on commodities but splurging when there’s a superior differentiated solution. This is reasonable and it could still be a great product. Hope it is helpful!

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

David Sacks – GP at Craft Ventures, and this week I thought I’d wrap it up with Part 2 stemming from a great session with Spenser Skates , CEO and CoFounder of Amplitude. Justin Stackany CEO / Startup Advisor & Former CCO Hungry generalists who are uncomfortable being bored and secretly enjoy a little chaos.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

So there’s always a way to vet, are they doing the work, are we putting in the investment of time that we think is fair, and of course is the quality of the salesmanship across the team there? You’ve got to have a technical aptitude and excitement for the product. What kind of activities can we see on a rep-per-rep basis?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

As for Karl, prior to founding the company he spent 6 years at Google in some fascinating roles including Head of Patents, Head of Business Development in China and running Google’s energy investments. Where it makes sense to invest your precious resources when to outsource, and how to save yourself money without cutting corners.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

This is a relationship worth investing in. Somebody may have a title, they may have a CTO, CEO, co-founder, or whatever. Could somebody come in and help with a technical conversation? Again, I am a cofounder at Kronologic, we are a calendar monetization engine. I’ve never heard of them.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Invest in your development internally and externally. Nikki Ivey is Cofounder of SDRDefenders and Head of Growth Development at Cultured Perspective, a Black owned Startup Consultancy. “An entrepreneurial leader and advisor from a technology background. Invest in your cross-functional partners. Hang Black.

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SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2019

Jason Lemkin is the Founder @ SaaStr, the world’s largest SaaS community and leading early-stage SaaS fund with investments in Automile, TalkDesk, Algolia and more. Dave Kellogg is a leading technology executive, independent board member, advisor and angel investor. Three of the companies he founded went public and one was acquired.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2020

To date, Chen has raised over $146M with Tipalti from the likes of Oren Zeev, Dan Rose, Mike Chalfen and then Greenspring, Truebridge and 01 Advisors to name a few. I was living in the Bay area at that time, moved back to Israel and then did some hobbies and ran some of my ideas, at some point in time called Oren, my cofounder in Tipalti.

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