From the Investors David Skok of Matrix Partners compares SaaS application delivery methods, operations costs and gross margins, contract terms, churn rates and more in “2015 Pacific Crest SaaS Survey… Read Full Article
From the Investors Michael Moe, Deborah Quazzo, and Nick Franco of GSV offer an aspirational vision for how to address society’s greatest challenge in a comprehensive white paper exploring the… Read Full Article
Scale. Ready or not, you’ll be forced to figure out how to scale your company as you gain momentum. But, don’t start worrying about scale too soon…though don’t wait too… Read Full Article
An Antidote for the Lack of Diversity in Tech… (read more) and other results from the Quire + Mattermark 2015 Startup Investing Survey We partnered with Quire last month to conduct the 2015… Read Full Article
This post originally appeared as a Case Study on Mesosphere’s Blog on Tuesday, October 27th, 2015. https://mesosphere.com/blog/2015/10/27/mattermark-mesos-aws/ . – – – – Mattermark, a popular startup providing data on private companies, is… Read Full Article
This edition is guest curated by Li Jiang, Vice President at GSV, where he primarily focuses on investment opportunities. Mattermark Lists The Top 100 Internet Of Things Startups For 2015… Read Full Article
From the Investors Alex Iskold of Techstars reflects on how he evaluated Tutum before investing and the characteristics they have that led to being acquired in “Docker Buys Tutm: What… Read Full Article
Let’s face it, as an entrepreneur you’re going to fail and fail a lot. You’ll have assumptions, you’ll spend money (sometimes mountains of it), you’ll recruit incredible people to work… Read Full Article
Software Eats Healthcare, For Dummies Guest post by Alex Danco, Head of Operations for Sharethebus. One day, software will have eaten healthcare. That day has not come yet, but it will.… Read Full Article
One day, software will have eaten healthcare. That day has not come yet, but it will. And it’ll come just in time. First of all, what do we mean when… Read Full Article
Let’s be real. Interviews are a terrible way to hire tech candidates. Not only do you not get a real sense of the candidate, they often weed out good candidates… Read Full Article
From the Investors Teresa Wang and Malay Gandhi of Rock Health release a report on the B2C healthcare market that analyzes survey results from 4,000+ respondents in “Digital Health Consumer… Read Full Article
From the Investors Mark Suster of Upfront Ventures releases 24 slides that look at the 2016 Venture Capital horizon with a sense of mourning for the ‘days of rational behavior’… Read Full Article
The startup life is an intense and intensely personal experience. Poet David Whyte said, “Work is where we can make ourselves; work is where we can break ourselves.” We’ve seen… Read Full Article
Introducing Investors in Mattermark for iOS We’re excited to announce that you can now look up and learn about startup investors using the free Mattermark for iOS. Download Mattermark for iOS Now! (It’s… Read Full Article
We’re excited to announce that you can now look up and learn about startup investors using the free Mattermark for iOS. Entrepreneurs: Find the right investors Investors just got a little… Read Full Article
This post is part of our Startup Funding Benchmarking Series exploring the allocation, concentration, and macro trends in the financing of high growth startups. It’s amazing what just a few… Read Full Article
From the Investors Chamath Palihapitiya of Social Capital, Ali Rowghani of Y Combinator, and Lauren Gross of Founders Fund discuss a wide-range of topics with Jessica Lessin at The Information’s… Read Full Article
From the Investors Manu Kumar of K9 Ventures declares that the maximum amount of dollars are entering the Venture Capital industry and explains why in “#PeakVC” AngelList announces that CSC… Read Full Article
This time last year, I was spending a lot of time in Keynote. I spent so much time putting that deck together, and at the end of the day an… Read Full Article
People used to worry about the “IPO window” closing before they could get their company significantly far along to exit. Now, with the rise of massive private rounds from late… Read Full Article
From the Investors Ali Hamed of CoVenture explains the danger of asset backed securities in “Why Alternative Lending Platforms Should Not Own the Loans They Originate” Kara Nortman of Upfront… Read Full Article
From the Investors Sam Altman of Y Combinator launches YC Research, a non-profit research lab to back ideas that may take 25 years to come to fruition in “YC Research”… Read Full Article
Sarah Catanzaro heads up the Mattermark data team, where she leads a team of three analysts partnered with 3 machine learning engineers to collect and clean massive amounts of company… Read Full Article