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Blog / Am I Thinking About AI the Right Way?
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Gil shares the four AI themes and questions he's thinking about.
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Blog / No Sleepwalk to Success
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Engineering success in a technical startup.
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Press / Gil Dibner Makes the 2024 Midas Seed List
Forbes
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Blog / Revenue Durability in the LLM World
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Everything about LLMs seems to make revenue durability more challenging than ever.
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Blog / A Robotic Future for Retail Grocery, Finally.
Gil Dibner & David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Why we invested in Finally.
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Blog / A Digital Fabric for Maritime Trade
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Why we invested in Portchain.
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Blog / Three Keys to the Kingdom
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
The sometimes-competing and sometimes-aligned goals that early-stage founders must manage.
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Blog / Customer-driven Entrepreneurship
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Reframing the critical unlock in early-stage venture.
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Press / Gil Dibner Makes the Midas List Europe 2023
Forbes
Gil Dibner moves up to #11 on the Midas List Europe 2023 thanks to a slew of successful investments.
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Blog / It's 3am. Do You Know What Your Third-party API Calls Are Doing?
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Announcing our investment in Lunar.dev.
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Blog / Small & Strong Beats Big & Weak
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Three startup paradigms in the LLM era.
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Blog / The End of Entrepreneurship by Autopilot
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
The unicorn factory has stopped. What are the implications for founders?
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Blog / No Words
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
The heartbreaking situation in Israel.
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Blog / 2023: The Crucible Year
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
What is in store for the next 18 months?
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Blog / Kafka Survivors of the World, Unite!
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Why we backed Memphis.dev.
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Blog / The Problem with Startup Advice
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
The best founders and investors know the rules, but also know when to break them.
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Talk / US Immigration Best Practices
Jennifer Schear
Founding Partner
Schear Immigration Law Firm
Angular Insights podcast episode, led by Jennifer Schear, Founding Partner at Schear Immigration Law Firm, on US immigration best practices for founders.

During the session, Jennifer discusses recent US immigration trends and updates and best practices for short and long term planning for tech founders from initial relocation through permanent residence and beyond.
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Press / Gil Makes the 2023 Midas Seed List
Forbes
Gil Dibner moves up the Seed List thanks to a slew of successful investments, most notably developer-focused software company JFrog, which went public in September 2020 at a $6.32 valuation.
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Blog / Looking Back to Move Forward
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
How to survive this extraordinarily exciting and wildly disconcerting age of generative AI.
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Blog / LLMs and the Future of Customer-built Software Design
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
How will LLMs change software development and design?
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Blog / Navigating AI’s iPhone Moment
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
A venture perspective on LLMs and what’s next…
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Talk / Learnings from Co-Founding Peakon, Podio, and Future Five
Kasper Hulthin
Co-Founder
Peakon, Podio, Future Five
Angular Insights podcast episode led by Kasper Hulthin. Kasper co-founded Podio (acquired by Citrix) and Peakon (acquired by Workday). He is now the co-founder of Future Five, where he’s an active entrepreneur and investor in a handful of companies. Among other things, he is currently the Chairman of Normative.io, a Swedish company that is building an emissions accounting platform.
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Talk / The Evolution of Collibra's Product Positioning & How They Created a Category
Stijn “Stan” Christiaens
Co-Founder & Chief Data Citizen
Collibra
Angular Insights podcast episode led by Stijn "Stan" Christiaens, Co-Founder and Chief Data Citizen of Collibra, on the evolution of Collibra's product positioning and how they successfully created a category.

Stan currently leads Collibra’s Data Office and is responsible for overall data strategy, data infrastructure and translating internal learnings into value for their customers and partners. He is also Collibra’s product evangelist and drives future innovation. Previously, Stan launched various departments within Collibra including Product, Presales, Postsales, Partnerships, Marketplace, and Research and Education.
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Blog / Principles for AI Product Design
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Or how we could all learn a little from Google’s conversion optimizer.
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Blog / Has Everyone Gone Chatbot Crazy?
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Large language models have taken the (tech) world by storm, and all of a sudden it’s 2016 again.
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Talk / Lessons Learned From Investing Early in Over a Dozen SaaS Unicorns
Jason Green
Founder & General Partner
Emergence Capital
Angular Insights episode led by Jason Green. During the talk, Jason covers lessons learned from investing early in over a dozen SaaS unicorns.

Jason is a Founding General Partner of Emergence, the first early-stage venture firm focused entirely on the enterprise cloud. The firm has been an early investor in companies such as Salesforce.com, Veeva, Box, Bill.com, Doximity, SuccessFactors, Yammer, Gusto, ServiceMax, SalesLoft and many others. Currently, Jason serves on the Boards of ASAPP, BetterWorks, Drishti, Lotame and Oyster and as a board observer at Gusto and G2.

Jason was named to the Forbes Top 100 Venture Capitalists Midas List and has served on the board of the National Venture Capital Association. Jason also served as Chairman of the West Coast Research Center for Harvard Business School and on the advisory board of the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship.
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Blog / Why (and How) Investing in Billboard Advertising Sometimes Makes Sense
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Venture
This is part I of a series on non-standard growth experiments.
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Blog / The Hierarchy Trap
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Hierarchy is an important tool for providing structure and alignment, but it can easily grow like a weed if not managed.
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Blog / The Tech Recession of 2022
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
What lessons can we learn?
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Blog / No One is Having Fun Right Now
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
And that’s okay
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Blog / It’s Never too Early to Build your Growth Model
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
What are the specific mechanisms by which one user turns into many, and an initial investment turns into revenue?
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Blog / How to Think About Revenue Quality as an Early Stage Founder
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
What does “quality revenue” mean when you don’t have much revenue at all?
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Blog / It’s Not All About Bottoms-up
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Two recent trends indicate that we may finally be past the mistaken belief that bottoms-up is the only “fundable” business model in town.
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Blog / Don’t be Fooled by the PLG Mullet
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
How to know if you should be building a PLG Now, PLG Later or PLG Never company.
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Blog / PLG Now, PLG Later, or PLG Never
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Why there is no helicopter shortcut to the summit of Mount PLG.
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Blog / For Early-Stage Venture, it’s Go Time
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Don’t tell anyone, but this is the best venture market in years.
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Talk / The Importance of Culture and Values As You Scale a Business
Oren Kaniel
Co-Founder & CEO
AppsFlyer
Angular Insights episode led by Oren Kaniel, Co-Founder & CEO of AppsFlyer, on the importance of culture and values as you scale a business.

Oren founded AppsFlyer a decade ago to solve one of the major problems in the mobile apps market – mobile analytics and user attribution.

During his Insights session, Oren discussed how he built a true unicorn in a challenging market against huge competitors - by building a people-first culture.
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Blog / The Right Stuff: How to Build a Commercial Team
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
How founders should go about building a commercial team.
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Blog / Mapping the New World of Business Collaboration
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Why we invested in Reco.
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Blog / What do a 2003 BMW and Microsoft Excel have in common?
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Leaving users feeling empowered and energized, rather than managed and disconnected.
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