March, 2012

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Financial planning for SaaS startups

The Angel VC

[Update 03/23/16: I've created an improved version of the template - check it out! ] A few people who read my recent post about financial planning asked if I could provide an example for a good financial plan, so I'd like to post one here. The plan is very similar to the one that I created in the very early days at Zendesk and re-used a few times in the meantime, but I had to make a few adjustments to make it more generic.

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SaaS acquisitions can be tricky

Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

Having lived through several acquisitions during my career in technology companies, I have some idea of what the folks at SuccessFactors (acquired by SAP last year) and Taleo (acquired by Oracle a few weeks ago) are going through. Some of these combinations go well, others not so well. One reason behind the acquisitions of software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies is the high cost of sales and marketing.

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I Have Seen the Future, and It Is ‘Privacy by Design’

Aber Law Firm

Ok that may be a little bit of an overstatement, but I do think that this new concept of ‘Privacy By Design’ is the future of privacy in terms of SaaS privacy and software privacy. Here are 3 simple things you should know about Privacy By Design: 1) ‘Being Adopted’ in the US (Invented in Canada). This methodology (if you can call it that) was actually conceived by the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Canada (Ann Cavoukian ) , but the US Federal Trade Commission is

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Avoiding Parkinson's Law of Triviality in your financial plan

The Angel VC

In the last few years I've seen a lot of financial plans, and since we started Point Nine in the middle of last year that volume has been skyrocketing. I've seen everything from just a few numbers in an email to extremely sophisticated Excel spreadsheets with dozens of tabs and tens of thousands of cells, and I thought I'd offer some advice on what I think a good financial plan looks like.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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A very brief history of Point Nine

The Angel VC

I just created a slide about the development of Point Nine Capital for a little company presentation and thought it might be useful if I posted it here as well to give everyone some information on where we're at and how we got there: In 2008, Lukasz Gadowski – who almost everyone in the German Web startup scene knows because he built or helped build some of Europe's biggest Internet success stories, e.g.

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I Have Seen the Future, and It Is ‘Privacy by Design’

Aber Law Firm

Ok that may be a little bit of an overstatement, but I do think that this new concept of ‘Privacy By Design’ is the future of privacy in terms of SaaS privacy and software privacy. Here are 3 simple things you should know about Privacy By Design: 1) ‘Being Adopted’ in the US (Invented in Canada). This methodology (if you can call it that) was actually conceived by the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Canada (Ann Cavoukian ) , but the US Federal Trade Commission is

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I Have Seen the Future, and It Is ‘Privacy by Design’

Aber Law Firm

Ok that may be a little bit of an overstatement, but I do think that this new concept of ‘Privacy By Design’ is the future of privacy in terms of SaaS privacy and software privacy. Here are 3 simple things you should know about Privacy By Design: 1) ‘Being Adopted’ in the US (Invented in Canada). This methodology (if you can call it that) was actually conceived by the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Canada (Ann Cavoukian ) , but the US Federal Trade Commission is

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I Have Seen the Future, and It Is ‘Privacy by Design’

Aber Law Firm

Ok that may be a little bit of an overstatement, but I do think that this new concept of ‘Privacy By Design’ is the future of privacy in terms of SaaS privacy and software privacy. Here are 3 simple things you should know about Privacy By Design: 1) ‘Being Adopted’ in the US (Invented in Canada). This methodology (if you can call it that) was actually conceived by the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Canada (Ann Cavoukian ) , but the US Federal Trade Commission is

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I Have Seen the Future, and It Is ‘Privacy by Design’

Aber Law Firm

Ok that may be a little bit of an overstatement, but I do think that this new concept of ‘Privacy By Design’ is the future of privacy in terms of SaaS privacy and software privacy. Here are 3 simple things you should know about Privacy By Design: 1) ‘Being Adopted’ in the US (Invented in Canada). This methodology (if you can call it that) was actually conceived by the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Canada (Ann Cavoukian ) , but the US Federal Trade Commission is

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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I Have Seen the Future, and It Is ‘Privacy by Design’

Aber Law Firm

Ok that may be a little bit of an overstatement, but I do think that this new concept of ‘Privacy By Design’ is the future of privacy in terms of SaaS privacy and software privacy. Here are 3 simple things you should know about Privacy By Design: 1) ‘Being Adopted’ in the US (Invented in Canada). This methodology (if you can call it that) was actually conceived by the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Canada (Ann Cavoukian ) , but the US Federal Trade Commission is