Mattermark Daily – Monday, June 2nd
From the Investors Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures gives founders a playbook for pitching, finishing with the top dozen rules for powerpoint presentations in “Pitch the Way VCs Think” Tren… Read Full Article
From the Investors Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures gives founders a playbook for pitching, finishing with the top dozen rules for powerpoint presentations in “Pitch the Way VCs Think” Tren… Read Full Article
From the Investors Boris Wertz of Version One Ventures is seeing more pitches from female founders, and announces in “The Rise of the Female Founder” that 50% of their investments… Read Full Article
From the Investors Renee DiResta of O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures presents data on the trends that shape the hardware community in “Hardware by the Numbers: A Narrative” TX Zhuo of Karlin… Read Full Article
From the Investors Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers presents KPCB’s annual review on the state of the web in “Internet Trends 2014” Rob Go of NextView Ventures tips… Read Full Article
From the Investors Guy Turner of Hyde Park Venture Partners delivers the results of his survey on what entrepreneurs think of VCs and what VCs think of themselves, bringing some… Read Full Article
From the Investors Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures gives an overview of the new protocol for Bitcoin payments in “Feature Friday: Bitcoin Payments” Chip Hazard of Flybridge Capital Partners… Read Full Article
From the Investors Jason Shah of Sherpa Ventures notices “a renaissance happening with people building tailored applications that focus more on behavior… than technology” in “Successful Products: Solving Problems or… Read Full Article
From the Investors Angel Investor Jay Deng demonstrates that Silicon Valley still has a huge problem with sexism in “What Barbara Walters Amazing Career Can Teach Us About Women in… Read Full Article
From the Investors Ben Wiener of Jumpspeed Ventures watches startups achieve product/market fit and still fail in “The Black Hole of ‘Meh’” Rob Go of NextView Ventures recommends, 10/10 times,… Read Full Article
From the Investors Sarah Lacy, who founded PandoDaily, interviews Kristen Green of Forerunner Ventures on her investments in Bonobos, Warby Parker, and Birchbox, and why more women are starting their… 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 Hunter Walk of Homebrew in “When the VC Asks: About Your Hiring Plan” (this post is best read in conjunction with an earlier piece by Walk, “For… 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
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