Mattermark Daily – Monday, May 11th, 2015
From the Investors Marc Andreessen of Andreessen Horowitz shares his views on VC, startups, and the future – in detail – with Tad Friend of The New Yorker in “Tomorrow’s… Read Full Article
From the Investors Marc Andreessen of Andreessen Horowitz shares his views on VC, startups, and the future – in detail – with Tad Friend of The New Yorker in “Tomorrow’s… Read Full Article
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
From the Investors First Round Capital adds the ability for any startup team to submit a fundraising application on their site to be reviewed by a General Partner in “Introducing the… Read Full Article
From the Investors Hunter Walk and Satya Patel of Homebrew share their details of Shyp’s Series B, LA launch, John Doerr joining the Board, and ‘what it generally means for startups’ in… Read Full Article
From the Investors Hunter Walk of Homebrew and Euri Kim of Forerunner Venturesdiscuss her path to VC, focus on commerce startups, and view on ‘apprenticeship’ in VC in “Midas List… Read Full Article
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
From the Investors Angel Investor Paul Arnold for First Round Review offers his advice for how founders can work with their investors to make deals happen, build a team, and… Read Full Article
Mattermark iOS App Update We’re pleased to announce the arrival of funding events in the latest update of Mattermark for iOS. This addition enables you to examine the most recent… Read Full Article
From the Investors Paul Graham of Y Combinator recalls startup ideas that ‘sounded dumb at first’, but grew into large companies and hints that even ‘lame ideas’ shouldn’t be overlooked… Read Full Article
From the Investors Albert Wenger of Union Square Ventures details multiple scenarios and outcomes for founders and investors that find themselves in the ‘post money trap’ in “Beware the Post… Read Full Article
From the Investors Benedict Evans and Steven Sinofsky of Andreessen Horowitz discuss how Slack was first started, product changed, and its rapid growth with Stewart Butterfield of Slack in “Podcast:… Read Full Article
From the Investors Brad Feld of Foundry Group explains the multiple ways to calculate if a startup’s growth and profit ‘add up to 40%’ in “The Rule of 40% for… Read Full Article
Mattermark Analysis For Seed Stage Startups, It’s Hire or Die Visualizing the Series A pipeline to fully understand the correct level of urgency around recruiting for seed stage startups +… Read Full Article
From the Investors Benedict Evans of Andreessen Horowitz provides historical references of assumptions and trade-offs mobile device makers have made over time in “Mobile Platforms and Technical Debt“ Tomasz Tunguz… Read Full Article
From the Investors Duncan Davidson of Bullpen Capital expands on Mattermark CEO Danielle Morrill’s post that notes a drop in seed financing deals, but overall rise in funding amounts in… Read Full Article
From the Investors Arsham Memarzadeh of OpenView Partners finds that on average, founders have 15% equity ownership of their company post-IPO, two founders ‘are better than one’ and more metrics… Read Full Article
Kevin Kelleher and Michael Carney of PandoDaily cite data from Mattermark and Renaissance Capital, finding ‘the number of private finance rounds reached or surpassed $100 million more than doubled last… Read Full Article
From the Investors Brad Feld and the Foundry Group Team are ‘psyched to now be major investors in Mattermark’, after leading Mattermark’s $6.5 million Series A in “Our Investment in… Read Full Article
From the Investors John Backus and Hemant Bhadrwaj of New Atlantic Ventures find that ‘dragons (‘fund maker’ companies) are four times as rare as a unicorn [company]’ and share a… Read Full Article
From the Investors Mike Brown, Jr. of Bowery Capital details the top ten ‘Opportunities in Vertical Software’ and the current ‘major and emerging players in each vertical’ in “Vertical Software… Read Full Article