From the Investors Thomas Grota of T-Venture Holding predicts that today’s unicorns will need to lower their valuations before an IPO and dissects the impact on private investors in “The… Read Full Article
The self-serve model has been an invaluable launchpad for several SaaS startups. Companies like Dropbox hit viral growth and made tons of money by creating great products and letting them… Read Full Article
From the Investors Benedict Evans of Andreessen Horowitz organizes his thoughts on mobile as we approach the end of 2015 in “16 Mobile Theses” Dave McClure of 500 Startups advises founders… Read Full Article
Forbes published their 2015 Hottest Startups list of companies with the fastest growing valuations over time between funding rounds. As with any such list, we love to provide better insight into how… Read Full Article
From the Investors First Round Capital turns Drake and Justin Bieber lyrics into startup dad jokes in their annual “Holiday Video 2015” Jeff Bussgang of Flybridge Capital identifies nine public… Read Full Article
Today, Techstars NYC hosts their Demo Day for their Fall 2015 batch in New York City. The companies will be pitching their products to an audience of VCs, Angel Investors, and decision makers… Read Full Article
Are you going to hit your 2016 sales goal? If not, do you know why? As you finish planning your 2017 sales goals, here are six common mistakes you can… Read Full Article
From the Investors Halle Tecco, Mara Perman, Teresa Wang, and Emily King of RockHealth surfaces funding and exit data for startups in the digital health industry in 2015 in “Digital… Read Full Article
All venture capitalists like to say they invest in companies looking to disrupt big markets — that next unicorn. And every startup pitch deck will showcase huge numbers on their market size slide,… Read Full Article
From the Investors Angel Investor Mahendra Ramsinghani believes ‘VC is in stasis’ and wonders if we will see a punctuated equilibrium in “Of Evolved Dinosaurs and Birds – The Changing… Read Full Article
With 13 business days left in 2015, Q4 is on pace for a dramatic decline in startup funding over recent quarters, with total investment currently standing at $11 Billion. The last time startup… Read Full Article
In June 2013, Danielle Morrill, CEO and Co-Founder of Mattermark, was happily surprised to see New York companies dominating the top of the startup charts in Mattermark throughout that month.… Read Full Article
From the Investors David Skok of Matrix Partners offers a detailed theory behind the LTV model, a spreadsheet to calculate your own LTV, and a summary of Discounted Future Cash… Read Full Article
Fintech companies and invested funds are on the rise. As mentioned in a recent post by Pascal Bouvier, Sizing The Fintech Opportunity, there were $12.04 billion invested in Fintech in 2014. Forbes… Read Full Article
From the Investors Brad Feld of Foundry Group announces that Lindel Eakman will lead a new effort that is designed to invest in other venture capital funds (many of which already… Read Full Article
What’s New in Mattermark This Week Bulk Select and Add Startups to Custom Lists With our newest custom lists feature, you can improve list building speed and efficiency by bulk adding… Read Full Article
From the Investors Mahesh Vellanki of Redpoint Ventures highlights the challenges facing mobile app developers today and how it compares to the web world in “This is Why Being a Mobile App… Read Full Article
Micro VC is a quickly growing category. When I began angel investing nearly a decade ago, I knew perhaps two firms. When we started Urban.Us two years go, we began… Read Full Article
Anecdotally, private company investors I’ve spoken to are nervous about market conditions for startup investing. I’ve had conversations with several VCs who told me their fund decided to back off on… Read Full Article
This is a guest post by Jason Culbertson, Design Manager at Airbnb. You can follow up with him about this post on Twitter and LinkedIn. (opinions are his) If you are a designer… Read Full Article
From the Investors Sir Michael Moritz of Sequoia discusses his views on why there aren’t many women working at Venture Capital firms in “Looking for Women to be Partners” (video)… Read Full Article
From the Investors First Round Capital surveyed 500+ startup founders to see what keeps them up at night and how they see the market. Read the results in “State of… Read Full Article
It’s been a few years now since the uprising of on-demand startups in seemingly every vertical. Time to revisit, and see which have proven to be mainstays and which have… Read Full Article
From the Investors Mahesh Vellanki of Redpoint Ventures dissects the enterprise value, revenue multiples and EBITDA margins of public ecommerce companies in “Here is Why Ecommerce Companies Aren’t Worth Very Much”… Read Full Article