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 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 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
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 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
From the Investors David Skok of Matrix Partners compares SaaS application delivery methods, operations costs and gross margins, contract terms, churn rates and more in “2015 Pacific Crest SaaS Survey… Read Full Article
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
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
Let’s face it, as an entrepreneur you’re going to fail and fail a lot. You’ll have assumptions, you’ll spend money (sometimes mountains of it), you’ll recruit incredible people to work… Read Full Article
Software Eats Healthcare, For Dummies Guest post by Alex Danco, Head of Operations for Sharethebus. One day, software will have eaten healthcare. That day has not come yet, but it will.… Read Full Article
From the Investors Mark Suster of Upfront Ventures releases 24 slides that look at the 2016 Venture Capital horizon with a sense of mourning for the ‘days of rational behavior’… Read Full Article
The startup life is an intense and intensely personal experience. Poet David Whyte said, “Work is where we can make ourselves; work is where we can break ourselves.” We’ve seen… Read Full Article
From the Investors Chamath Palihapitiya of SocialCapital claims that Sand Hill Road needs a wake up call and reveals VC diversity metrics (spreadsheet) in “Bros Funding Bros: What’s Wrong with… Read Full Article
The 40 Fastest Growing Startups, Revisited – and 42 More Today, we revisited the previous list of companies we identified as the fast growing startups poised to raise funding, in… Read Full Article
From the Investors M.G. Siegler of Google Ventures adds his thoughts to the growing conversation around ad-blockers and whether they are good or bad for advertisers, content producers, and consumers… Read Full Article
From the Investors Bryan Johnson of OS Fund encourages other science-focused funds to share their thoughts and methodologies in response to unveiling his team’s investment model in “The OSF Playbook:… Read Full Article
From the Investors Bill Gurley of Benchmark chats with Emily Chang of Bloomberg West about how ‘funnel reversal’ is impacting marketers, the future of the unicorn market, and more in… Read Full Article
From the Investors Scott Maxwell of OpenView Venture Partners analyzes public market dynamics and finds key similarities between public stock prices and private valuations in “What Apple, Amazon & Google… Read Full Article
Median Startup Funding Round Sizes Up 39% YoY, Lead By Late Stage & Series A Deals July saw a 39% overall increase in median round sizes compared to July of… Read Full Article
Q2 2015 U.S. Startup Funding Report Results are in for the second quarter of 2015, and Mattermark has all the details on funding rounds raised by startups in Q2. In… 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 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
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