From the Investors Bill Gurley of Benchmark explains the differences between high priced private rounds and IPOs and suggests, ‘we are in a risk bubble’ in “Investors Beware: Today’s $100M+ Late-stage… 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 Christoph Janz of Point Nine Capital shows the results of positive and negative MRR churn rates for two hypothetical SaaS businesses in “Why (Most) SaaS Startups Should… Read Full Article
From the Investors United Ventures releases their analysis of consumer growth markets and dubs South Africa, Indonesia, and Mexico as ‘countries to watch’ in “Getting Ready for the Next (Digital)… Read Full Article
From the Investors Dimitri Dadiomov of NextView Ventures shares his analysis of the entrepreneurial activity of Harvard MBAs from 2008 – 2014 in “Should We Take Harvard MBAs Seriously as… Read Full Article
From the Investors Sam Altman of Y Combinator believes the impact of software on civilization is a good thing, but worries that potential future issues are not being planned for… 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 Geoff Ralston of Y Combinator explains his formula for prioritizing product decisions based on ‘breadth, depth, and cost’ in “Startup Priorities“ Phin Barnes of First Round Capital… Read Full Article
From the Investors Mamoon Hamid of The Social+Capital Partnership shares his 42 page presentation that visualizes Slack and Yammer’s growth and details SaaS fundamentals in “Software-as-a-Service Secrets to Raising Venture… Read Full Article
From the Investors Bruce Booth of Atlas Venture provides his thoughts on the ‘therapeutic-directed venture capital’ investments from Biotechnology Industry Organization’s VC study in “Where Does All That Biotech Venture… Read Full Article
From the Investors Alexa Lee of StartX showcases 22 recent StartX graduates and portfolio performance metrics since 2010 in “StartX Demo Day Fall 2014 – Achieving Growth & Maturity“ Patrick… Read Full Article
MATTERMARK ANALYSIS Startup Funding Report: Historical Analysis 2005 -2014 This report provides a data-driven exploration of startup funding in the United States over the past ten years. Read More >> From… Read Full Article
From the Investors Tien Anh Nguyen and Arsham Memarzadeh of OpenView Venture Partners analyze the metrics of mobile product strategies, classify mobile B2B companies, measure mobile product growth, and more… 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
Today, 500 Startups Mountain View, is hosting their Demo Day for Batch 11 (Spring 2015). 30 companies will be pitching their products to an audience of VCs, Angel Investors and… Read Full Article
From the Investors Neeraj Agrawal of Battery Ventures details what he believes are the seven key phases in SaaS companies’ go-to-market success to reach $100M in revenue in “The SaaS… Read Full Article
From the Investors Benedict Evans of Andreessen Horowitz explains how PCs, clocks, radios, cameras, etc., are being subsumed by smartphones and Internet of Things devices in “The Home and the… Read Full Article
From the Investors David Cohen of Techstars announces a new Seed and Series A fund to invest in companies emerging from the Techstars ecosystem in “Techstars Ventures Raises New $150M… Read Full Article
MATTERMARK ANALYSIS While the Pace of Series B Investment Stabilized in 2014, Capital Concentration (and Valuations) Are Still Going Up Visualizing the pace of funding, average, and median sizes of Series… 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 The Andreessen Horowitz Partners share their perspectives on specific market categories and trends they have been ‘observing or thinking about’ in “16 Things“ Joel Monegro of Union… Read Full Article
From the Investors Hunter Walk of Homebrew compares individual investors who deliver value to startups in ‘notably different ways’ vs. investors that erode value in “The 10x Angel. The 0x… Read Full Article
Yesterday, AngelPad, in San Francisco, hosted their Demo Day for their Winter 2014 class. 13 companies pitched their products to an audience of VCs, Angel Investors and decision makers at large… Read Full Article
From the Investors David Cohen of Techstars and Angel Investor William Mougayar details multiple industries that could potentially be built on and expanded with blockchain technology in “After the Social… Read Full Article