Mattermark Daily – Monday, January 25th, 2016
From the Investors Dave McClure of 500 Startups believes founders should ignore and reject Sam Altman’s advice to only apply to one accelerator, whether that is YC or 500 or any… Read Full Article
From the Investors Dave McClure of 500 Startups believes founders should ignore and reject Sam Altman’s advice to only apply to one accelerator, whether that is YC or 500 or any… Read Full Article
From the Investors Beezer Clarkson of Sapphire Ventures highlights her predictions on the venture ecosystem from her vantage point as an LP in early-stage VC funds in “Reading the Venture… Read Full Article
From the Investors Tomasz Tunguz of Redpoint Ventures notes a 45% drop in forward revenue multiples in two years for public SaaS companies and dissects the impact on private companies… Read Full Article
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
From the Investors Bruce Booth of Atlas Venture expands on four different characteristics of the current biotech market in contrast to its historic background in “This Time May Be Different:… Read Full Article
From the Investors Greg Beaufait of Dundee Venture Capital attributes 90% of last year’s blog traffic to the Mattermark Daily for context of the power of distribution channels in “Distribution… Read Full Article
Happy New Year, Mattermark Daily readers! Hope 2016 has wonderful things in store for you. For a recap of posts by investors and founders with their 2015 reflections and 2016 predictions, read… Read Full Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
From the Investors Brian Feinstein of Bessemer Venture Partners guides founders to get the most out of venture debt in “Ten Questions Every Founder Should Ask Before Raising Venture Debt”… Read Full Article
This is a guest post by Robert Seo, Cofounder and CEO of Slidejoy, the Android app that replaces your lockscreen with trending news and ads and actually pays you for… Read Full Article
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
From the Investors Mark Suster of Upfront Ventures and Harry Stebbings of Twenty Minute VC discuss how Mark became an entrepreneur then a VC, his investment style, how founders determine… 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
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
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
From the Investors Josh Elman of Greylock Partners and Paul Berry of RebelMouse dive into how media products create ‘front doors’ and the three audiences for any online property in… Read Full Article