The self-serve model has been an invaluable launchpad for several SaaS startups. Companies like Dropbox hit viral growth and made tons of money by creating great products and letting them… 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
Forbes published their 2015 Hottest Startups list of companies with the fastest growing valuations over time between funding rounds. As with any such list, we love to provide better insight into how… Read Full Article
From the Investors First Round Capital turns Drake and Justin Bieber lyrics into startup dad jokes in their annual “Holiday Video 2015” Jeff Bussgang of Flybridge Capital identifies nine public… Read Full Article
Today, Techstars NYC hosts their Demo Day for their Fall 2015 batch in New York City. The companies will be pitching their products to an audience of VCs, Angel Investors, and decision makers… 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
In June 2013, Danielle Morrill, CEO and Co-Founder of Mattermark, was happily surprised to see New York companies dominating the top of the startup charts in Mattermark throughout that month.… 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
Fintech companies and invested funds are on the rise. As mentioned in a recent post by Pascal Bouvier, Sizing The Fintech Opportunity, there were $12.04 billion invested in Fintech in 2014. Forbes… 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
What’s New in Mattermark This Week Bulk Select and Add Startups to Custom Lists With our newest custom lists feature, you can improve list building speed and efficiency by bulk adding… Read Full Article
From the Investors Mahesh Vellanki of Redpoint Ventures highlights the challenges facing mobile app developers today and how it compares to the web world in “This is Why Being a Mobile App… Read Full Article
This is a guest post by Jason Culbertson, Design Manager at Airbnb. You can follow up with him about this post on Twitter and LinkedIn. (opinions are his) If you are a designer… 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
From the Investors Edith Yeung of 500 Startups defines the ‘MOAARRR’ metrics and presents guidelines for developing a mobile growth strategy in “Startup Metrics for Mobile Pirates #MOAARRR” (slides) Erin… Read Full Article
From the Investors Bill Gurley of Benchmark argues that tech startups are overvalued, profits are underrated, and a bust is coming in “VC Bill Gurley Tries to Bust the Bubble”… Read Full Article
With Mattermark, you can sort through over 1.4 million privately owned companies based on location, total funding, industry, employee growth month over month, total employees, Growth Score, Mindshare Score, and 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 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
What’s New in Mattermark This Week Upgraded Salesforce Bulk Sync Integration Our Salesforce integration takes only a few minutes and couple mouse clicks: no IT support needed. Please note that some… Read Full Article