tl;dr: Venture capitalists are often mocked for following trends. Is it their fault, or are we to blame? Trends are born when a significant and visible group of people converge… Read Full Article
Editor’s Morning Note: Nutanix’s IPO pricing gives us a great window into what things are worth. Especially unicorns. Nuntanix priced its IPO this week, setting a $13 per-share upper end… Read Full Article
From the Investors Eric Paley of Founder Collective expands on reasons why venture capital may be the wrong path for some entrepreneurs in “Venture Capital is a Hell of a… Read Full Article
tl;dr: You’ve heard of corporate venture capital before, but did you know some funds are going small and close to the metal by targeting developers to build on their platforms?… Read Full Article
Editor’s Morning Note: It’s IPO week. Here’s what you need to know about tech’s next two flotations. The stuff investors’ dreams are made of. While the pace of US-based technology IPOs… Read Full Article
Saying that Salesforce is just a CRM is like saying that the Titanic was just a boat. Its pre-packaged features power marketing, sales, and support at all kinds of companies,… Read Full Article
From the Investors Babak Nivi of AngelList announces the unrealized return for all 2013 syndicate investments is a 46% IRR and 2.4x multiple, the launch of their Access Fund, and… Read Full Article
tl;dr: IRR is theoretically the best way to measure the performance of a venture capital firm. In practice, it’s far harder to use effectively than you might expect. As Jason Rowley… Read Full Article
Editor’s Morning Note: What correction? Evidence that it won’t happen today. Things are good right now. Very good. And, it appears that things aren’t set to get much worse for… Read Full Article
From the Investors Notation Capital announces Origins Season 2 and final Season 1 episode with Judith Elsea, co-founder of Weathergage Capital, one of the top LP firms in the industry… Read Full Article
Researching companies and prospects is tedious and time-consuming work. But if you want to close the right deals, at the right time, you’ve got to do your homework. At Mattermark,… Read Full Article
tl;dr: Talking about venture capital returns doesn’t have to be complicated. Today, we’re working to understand the one number that really matters, and why other measures of venture performance are so hard… Read Full Article
Editor’s Morning Note: Spotify crosses a paying user threshold, again. Again? Again. This morning, Spotify co-founder Daniel Ek alluded on Twitter that his company crossed the 40 million paying user… Read Full Article
From the Investors Scott Kupor of Andreessen Horowitz attempts to clear some of the opacity of how the VC industry works, by defining some basic terms, beginning with a bit… Read Full Article
Meet Peter. He’s your ideal customer. He also happens to be the CMO of an early-stage company that just closed its first round of funding. Poised for employee headcount growth,… Read Full Article
Editor’s Morning Note: Mattermark Editorial is at Disrupt this morning, so we’re keeping this short. The story you had hoped would come out about Rothenberg Ventures is out. Backchannel recently published… Read Full Article
From the Investors Bill Gurley of Benchmark talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about life as a venture capitalist and why he’s still worried about a bubble in “Recode Decode: Too… Read Full Article
Data is awesome. And when it’s the type of data focused on the fastest-growing companies, it provides investors with key information about business opportunities and sales teams with lists of… Read Full Article
tl;dr: Blendle wants to change how journalism is financed. Are you up for paying? Journalism isn’t in great shape. After years of steep print revenue declines, media companies often struggle to… Read Full Article
Editor’s Morning Note: After publishing our post looking ahead to a quickening tech IPO cadence, Coupa filed. Let’s investigate. There are now enough US-based tech IPOs that it’s easy to forget… Read Full Article
Editor’s Morning Note: Here’s what $625 million buys you today. Google announced that it will buy Apigee yesterday for around $625 million. That makes this a fine moment to dive… Read Full Article
From the Investors Drew Oetting of 8VC discusses the key performance metrics and the frameworks companies can use to track and report in a systematic way in “Metrics: The Writing… Read Full Article
TL;DR: SaaS is big for companies selling to other companies. Does it work well for consumer services? Sometimes. The pace at which new software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies are born is slowing,… Read Full Article
Editor’s Morning Note: There is hope that the tech IPO market is poised for recovery. A tech IPO just priced, so it’s the perfect moment to understand why. After all our… Read Full Article