Mattermark Daily – Friday, May 16th
From the Investors Roy Bahat of Bloomberg Ventures receives a wakeup call from his five year-old about how much time works at home in “What Our Kids See” (co-narrated by… Read Full Article
From the Investors Roy Bahat of Bloomberg Ventures receives a wakeup call from his five year-old about how much time works at home in “What Our Kids See” (co-narrated by… Read Full Article
From the Investors Jay Acunzo of NextView Ventures brings you the first in a series of Growth Guides, blueprints designed to help young startups execute quickly and successfully, in “Content… Read Full Article
From the Investors Only 4% of all senior VC partners are women. Jeff Bussgang of Flybridge Capital Partners wonders what massive event it would take to change that in “Cultural… Read Full Article
From Tomasz Tunguz’s article, “Ruthlessness and Grit” From the Investors Chip Hazard of Flybridge Capital Partners outlines how to develop, manage, and retain top-tier talent in “Leading High Performers” Tomasz… Read Full Article
Danielle Morrill of Mattermark ran the numbers and calculated the profitability of tech IPOs from 1997 to present, bursting the bubble-talk by investor class in “A Data-Driven Exploration of Tech IPOs… Read Full Article
From the Investors Tomasz Tunguz of Redpoint Ventures optimizes your startup’s valuation when raising a seed round per fiscal quarter in “The Worst Time of Year to Raise a Seed… Read Full Article
From the Investors Steven Sinofsky of Andreessen Horowitz built or oversaw everything from the development of C++ to Microsoft Office 95 through Windows 7 while he rose through the ranks… Read Full Article
From the Investors Glenn Solomon of GGV Capital finds three keys to success, and two absolute deal-breakers, in “Shooting for an IPO? Take These Steps Now Before It’s Too Late”… Read Full Article
De los Inversores Heidi Roizen of Draper Fisher Jurvetson thinks “things have improved,” but from her article, it seems like there was nowhere to go but up – Heidi assures… Read Full Article
From the Community Want to go to the New England Venture Capital Association award ceremony with Mattermark? Get your startup team to take a picture with the word “Mattermark” and… Read Full Article
From the Investors David Hirsch of Metamorphic Ventures points to the BI feature on Larry Page to highlight the need for CEOs to balance monetization and mission statement in “Listen… Read Full Article
Yesterday, 500 Startups announced its ninth batch of startups in Mountain View. Eleven of the companies in this entry class have at least one female founder; ten countries are represented in… Read Full Article
From the Investors In light of the 7.01% drop in Salesforce’s stock price, Jason Lemkin of Storm Ventures lays out five reasons for why the floor is about to drop… Read Full Article
From the Investors Tomasz Tunguz of Redpoint Ventures confirms Wu-Tang, finds cash does rule everything around me, in “The Surprising Compensation Trends of Startup Executives” Chip Hazard of Flybridge Capital… Read Full Article
Earlier this month, Andreessen Horowitz led Omada Health’s $23 million Series B round, marking a16z’s first foray into digital health. The fund cherry-picked the co-founder and CTO of Counsyl (listed… Read Full Article
From the Investors Jay Deng of Nouveau Capital responds to Kanyi Maqubela’s post by proposing that waterfalls will one day flow upstream in “Don’t Go Chasing Distribution Waterfalls: The Future… Read Full Article
“The proposition is simple, it’s very clear, it’s very compelling… Press a button and get fresh fast food. I want to live in that world.” That’s Simon Rothman, the Greylock… Read Full Article
This Tuesday, over a dozen wearable tech startups gathered in San Francisco to showcase their apps, hardware, and designs at Wearable World’s first Demo Day for their Labs program. The startups’ industries… Read Full Article