Mattermark Daily – Monday, March 14th, 2016
From the Investors Raju Rishi of RRE Ventures offers guidelines around how to know if you have really found product/market fit as an enterprise startup in “When Revenue Isn’t The… Read Full Article
From the Investors Raju Rishi of RRE Ventures offers guidelines around how to know if you have really found product/market fit as an enterprise startup in “When Revenue Isn’t The… Read Full Article
From the Investors Carl Fritjofsson of 500 Startups offers a guide to breaking down your “revenue” so it actually means something in “How to Talk About Revenue — What VCs… Read Full Article
From the Investors Mahesh Vellanki of Redpoint Ventures talks about common mistakes and errors in judgment that investors and entrepreneurs make in “Silicon Valley’s Logical Fallacies And How To Avoid… Read Full Article
From the Investors Tomasz Tunguz of Redpoint Ventures concludes that the Series B will likely be the most challenging round to raise in the beginning of this year in “What’s… Read Full Article
From the Investors Mark Suster of Upfront Ventures summarizes his discussions with over 100 LP firms that fund VCs in “What Do LPs Think of the Venture Capital Markets for… Read Full Article
From the Investors Josh Elman of Greylock Partners shares his thoughts on how founders should approach building on platforms and how they can get the most out of them on… Read Full Article
From the Investors Hunter Walk of Homebrew provides guidelines and a list of resources to help you build more diverse teams in “Diversity at Startups” Paige Craig of Arena Ventures… Read Full Article
From the Investors Craig Shapiro of Collaborative Fund and Morgan Housel of Motley Fool agree that the most innovative businesses are sometimes built at times of need and on a shoestring… Read Full Article
From the Investors Nikhil Basu Trivedi of Shasta Ventures lends his thoughts on eight areas he’s looking at for new early-stage investments in “What’s Next? 8 Trends I’m Excited About”… Read Full Article
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
From the Investors The GSV Team unveiled their annual list of the most dynamic private companies with the potential to become $1 billion value companies. Investor sentiment ebbs and flows… Read Full Article
From the Investors Mitch and Freada Kapor of Kapor Capital lay out how they built a VC firm intentionally focused on diversity and why it’s a win-win in “Dear Investors:… Read Full Article
From the Investors Melissa Tilney of AgFunder releases the latest AgTech Investing Report for 2015, which shows investment in food and agriculture technology startups reaching a massive $4.6 billion in… Read Full Article
From the Investors Heidi Roizen of DFJ gives founders advice for weathering the market downturn in “Dear Startups: Here’s How to Stay Alive” Doug Pepper of Shasta Ventures agrees that… Read Full Article
From the Investors Mark Solon of Techstars recaps the past 16 years of VC advice around public and private markets for new investors in the game in “Some Gray Haired… Read Full Article
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
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
From the Investors Joseph Floyd of Emergence Capital visualizes decreasing valuations for public SaaS companies, the impact of compressing multiples, and lessons for SaaS founders in “Was Black Friday a… Read Full Article
From the Investors Mark Suster of Upfront Ventures reviews the pulse of the market based on VC perceptions, as we enter 2016 in “The State of Venture Capital” Pejman Nozad… Read Full Article
From the Investors Christian Claussen of Ventech dives into why corporate venture capital is picking up speed in the investment industry in “Breaking New Ground with Modern Corporate Venture Capital… Read Full Article
From the Investors Matt Turck of FirstMark Capital details the 2016 Big Data landscape in “Is Big Data Still a Thing?” Sarah Tavel of Greylock Partners explains why in building… Read Full Article
Today is the first-of-its-kind public introduction of MetaProp NYC’s successfully funded, best-in-class real estate technology company start-ups. Demo Day celebrates the culmination of the 22-week MetaProp NYC accelerator program. Attendees will… 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 Semil Shah of Haystack Fund discusses how a founder can prepare for the gap between Seed and Series A, save time, and leverage the market in“Navigating The… Read Full Article