Editorial
The Beginner’s Guide To VC
tl;dr: Tired of being the only person on the couch who doesn’t understand the jokes in Silicon Valley? We’ve got you covered. The venture capital industry is opaque. Despite the… Read Full Article
U.S. Venture Capital Investment Dollars Down 11% Year-to-Date, Late Stage Rounds Hit Hardest Followed by Series B
tl;dr: We have enough time series data to call a slowdown in VC funding. It’s been 3 months since the February 5th stock market swoon that solidified the fears of many… Read Full Article
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Mattermark Daily – Wednesday, March 30th, 2016
From the Investors Alex Mittal and Christopher Steiner of FundersClub reiterate the importance of keeping a balanced investment portfolio, even in the market of startup investing, in “The Best Time… Read Full Article
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Mattermark Daily – Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016
From the Investors Mahesh Vellanki of Redpoint Ventures talks about parallel market environments and how some spaces like food delivery evolve very differently across markets in “Food Delivery In Europe… Read Full Article
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Mattermark Daily – Thursday, February 11th, 2016
From the Investors Archit Bise of Redpoint Ventures explains how every market in the world has cycles of highs and lows, including venture investing, in “The Patterson Cycle” Shai Goldman… Read Full Article
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Mattermark Daily – Wednesday, February 10th, 2016
From the Investors Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures welcomes the tougher startup environment, as he says, ‘it will make all of us better’ in “When the Going Gets Tough,… Read Full Article
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Mattermark Daily – Monday, January 11th, 2016
From the Investors Adam Quinton of Lucas Point Ventures warns that while there are more angels per capita, check writing is on the decline, which may lead to more early… Read Full Article
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Mattermark Daily – Monday, December 28th, 2015
From the Investors Mike Puangmalai formerly of SQN Investors provides an overview of revenue multiples and how (as a tech employee or entrepreneur) company decisions can potentially impact valuation in… Read Full Article
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Mattermark Daily – Monday, November 23rd, 2015
From the Investors Nicole Irvin, Scott Kupor, and Stephen McDermid of Andreessen Horowitz discuss how to compare private vs. public valuations, investors and Square’s IPO in “a16z Podcast: On Recent IPOs… Read Full Article
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Mattermark Daily – Monday, November 2nd, 2015
From the Investors Roger Lee and Deepak Ravichandran of Battery Ventures takeaways, and clearly shows the late stage market is overvalued and returns are decreasing in “A Bubble Late-Stage Market?… Read Full Article
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Mattermark Daily – Wednesday, October 28th, 2015
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
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Mattermark Daily – Tuesday, October 27th, 2015
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
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Mattermark Daily – Tuesday, October 13th, 2015
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
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Mattermark Daily – Monday, September 14th, 2015
From the Investors Chris Quintero of Bolt VC puts together a breakdown of hardware startup investments and investors in “Who Invests in Hardware Startups?” Jason Lemkin of Storm Ventures examines… Read Full Article
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Mattermark Daily – Tuesday, September 1st, 2015
From the Investors Mahesh Vellanki of Redpoint Ventures talks about the benefits of going public and discusses the step-by-step process required to actually go public in “The Key Advantages to… Read Full Article
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Mattermark Daily – Tuesday, August 4th, 2015
Cyber Security Startups: Industry Overview The 10-page Cyber Security Overview Includes: Growth Scores, Employee Counts, and Company-level funding data for the 11 fastest growing U.S. Cyber Security startups 5 Most Active Investors in the… Read Full Article
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Mattermark Daily – Thursday, May 28th, 2015
From the Investors Guy Turner of Hyde Park Venture Partners visualizes three cycles he says are predictable in many startups in “Wave Theory of Startups: Braving the Funding, Sales, and… Read Full Article
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Mattermark Daily – Wednesday, May 6th, 2015
From the Investors Bill Maris of Google Ventures adds context to recent his comments in a New York Times article about Secret shutting down and how the founders sold shares… Read Full Article
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Mattermark Daily – Wednesday, April 29th, 2015
From the Investors Jessica Livingston of Y Combinator guides founders around the traps she has observed they fall into ‘soon after fundraising’ in “Subtle Mid-Stage Startup Pitfalls” Kevin Colleran and… Read Full Article
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Mattermark Daily – Thursday, March 26th, 2015
From the Investors David Lee of SV Angel provides an ‘insider look’ into how he communicates funding advice to founders by showing an email he sent to a startup he… Read Full Article
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Mattermark Daily – Tuesday, March 24th, 2015
From the Investors Marc Andreessen of Andreessen Horowitz “emphasizes two key ideas: founders can gain portfolio economics via 1. pivots and 2. making entrepreneurship a career” – @EricRies in “This… Read Full Article
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Mattermark Daily – Wednesday, March 4th, 2015
From the Investors Jessica Livingston of Y Combinator opens up about how she shaped the community and culture of Y Combinator for the past 10 years in “The Social Radar:… Read Full Article