From the Investors Tien Anh Nguyen of OpenView Partners compares their 2014 SaaS industry survey results with New Relic’s recent S-1 filing, noting ‘New Relic is an outlier’ in “New Relic’s… Read Full Article
It’s an exciting time for enterprise software startups, as both Hortonworks and New Relic filed for their IPOs in the past 24 hours. Hortonworks S-1 filing (Mattermark Growth Score: 2366) New… Read Full Article
From the Investors Justin Kan of Y Combinator reviews how to value your company, raise interest from buyers and navigate the acquisition process in “The Founder’s Guide to Selling Your Company“ Mark… Read Full Article
From the Investors Tomasz Tunguz of Redpoint Ventures cites the ‘tripling of seed stage capital’ and plummeting infrastructure costs as key factors in “Why It’s A Great Time to Raise A… Read Full Article
From the Investors Mark Suster of Upfront Ventures highlights ‘moonshot’ products and founders in response to uBeam naysayers in “The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups“ Tomasz Tunguz of Redpoint… Read Full Article
From the Investors Saul Klein of Index Ventures shares his thoughts on future investing opportunities, ‘innovation economies’ and the global ‘race for growth’ in “Majority World Report 2014” (slideshow) Tomasz Tunguz… Read Full Article
From the Investors Tomasz Tunguz of Redpoint Ventures shares metrics from Cooley LLP’s Venture Financing Report, noting Series A prices have nearly doubled in six months in “The Meteoric Acceleration in… Read Full Article
From the Investors Tom Tunguz of Redpoint Ventures explains how Internet of Things businesses could prosper from the subscription business model in “One of The Best Opportunities in The Next Decade“… Read Full Article
From the Investors Benedict Evans of Andreessen Horowitz analyzes the current trajectory and future impact of the smartphone industry in “Mobile Is Eating The World” (slideshow) Dave McClure of 500 Startups… Read Full Article
From the Investors The Atomico Ventures Team releases their analysis of 136 $1 billion valued companies, noting 61% are outside of Silicon Valley in “Great Companies Can Come From Anywhere: A… Read Full Article
From the Investors Tom Tunguz of Redpoint Ventures explores Zendesk pricing and the Veblen goods supply and demand curve in “The Obscure Economic Idea behind SaaS Pricing Challenges“ Will Porteous of… Read Full Article
Best of the Press Ian Rose of BBC News details a project by Bloomberg Beta and Mattermark to predict future founders in “Over 40? Data Says You Could Be the… Read Full Article
Best of the Press Kevin Roose of New York Magazine covers Marc Andreessen of Andreessen Horowitz’s perspective on optimism, robots and diversity in “Marc Andreessen In Conversation“ Christopher Mims of… Read Full Article
Today, 500 Startups Mountain View, is hosting their Demo Day for Batch 10 (Summer 2014). 30 companies will be pitching their products to an audience of VCs, Angel Investors and… Read Full Article
New on Mattermark Today, we introduced Mattermark’s Growth Score, which takes into account increasing employee numbers and funding amounts over time. The Growth Score coexists with the Mindshare Score; tracking… Read Full Article
Today we are excited to introduce our first official update to the company rankings in Mattermark. The “Mattermark Score” has been split into two new indicators, each with more descriptive… Read Full Article
From the Investors Tomasz Tunguz of Redpoint Ventures points out why he thinks voice is the future in “The Fastest User Interface“ Li Jiang of GSV Capital explains the two… Read Full Article
From the Investors Tomasz Tunguz of Redpoint Ventures finds ‘the best companies are able to maintain or even accelerate their revenue per employee’ in “Benchmarking SaaS Startup Efficiency with Revenue… Read Full Article
From the Investors Anthony Lee of Altos Ventures explains why he thinks the SaaS market has ‘a decade or more to go’ in “SaaS: Early Innings, $1 Trillion Game“ Jay Acunzo of… Read Full Article
Bill Gurley of Benchmark Capital gave a fascinating interview to the Wall Street Journal, expressing a great deal of concern for the nine digit funding rounds being raised by later… Read Full Article
At Mattermark we’re all about answering questions with data, arming investors, founders, sales, marketing, biz dev, M&A — any dealmaker, with the information they need to intelligently move forward with a transaction.… Read Full Article
From the Investors Frederick Arnander of Standard Ventures suggests tech could disrupt the time horizon of both capital returns and innovation in “The Capitalist’s Dilemma — and Opportunity“ Angel Investor… Read Full Article
From the Investors Bubba Murarka of Draper Fisher Jurvetson breaks out user-, system-, and context-generated notifications in “Three Types of Notifications” Angel Investor Jason Calacanis throws down the gauntlet in… Read Full Article
From the Investors Kanyi Maqubela of Collaborative Fund explains the timeline of the LP-VC-startup food chain in “How a 10-Year Fund Life Impacts Your Startup” Jeff Bussgang of Flybridge Capital… Read Full Article