From the Investors Paul Graham of Y Combinator shares the reasons why he believes ‘Startups don’t win by attacking. They win by transcending.’ in “Mean People Fail“ Tomasz Tunguz of Redpoint… Read Full Article
From the Investors Kevin Spain of Emergence Capital outlines the mobile enterprise market and three attributes he finds ‘leading mobile enterprise companies’ need to succeed, in his presentation in “The… Read Full Article
From the Investors Tomasz Tunguz of Redpoint Ventures defines the ‘fundamental unit’ of a SaaS business and details the ratios of each part of the unit based on multiple variables… Read Full Article
From the Investors Tomasz Tunguz of Redpoint Ventures concludes that as revenue and team size grow for SaaS companies, the number of new customer salespeople decrease and upsells salespeople increase… Read Full Article
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From Mattermark Mattermark’s CEO Danielle Morrill shares her ‘pay what you want’ experiment to bootstrap more in-depth research efforts of Mattermark data in “2014 Startup Traction Report Now Available for… Read Full Article
From the Investors Joe Dwyer of Founder Equity provides a landscape of venture capital, expanding on current ‘market forces impacting venture’ and what he believes is the future of venture… Read Full Article
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
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
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