It’s been over a year since Mattermark CEO, Danielle Morrill, started writing and curating the Mattermark Daily, a curated daily newsletter focused on surfacing high quality content from startup operators… Read Full Article
As we head into 2014 we’ve been doing a lot of analysis on things that are working and things that can be improved in Mattermark. It’s fun and exciting to… Read Full Article
From the Investors First Round Capital releases their annual portfolio music video featuring parodies of music videos by Taylor Swift, Pharrell, Sam Smith and more in “All About Burn Rate“… Read Full Article
From the Investors Michael Copeland and Benedict Evans of Andreessen Horowitz discuss mobile market trends, current major smartphone makers and question the future of mobile in “Enough With the Old… Read Full Article
Today, we’re excited to announce our $6.5 million Series A round, led by Foundry Group. Please join us in welcoming Brad Feld to our board of directors, where we will… Read Full Article
From the Investors John Backus and Hemant Bhadrwaj of New Atlantic Ventures find that ‘dragons (‘fund maker’ companies) are four times as rare as a unicorn [company]’ and share a… Read Full Article
From the Investors Tomasz Tunguz of Redpoint Ventures uses seven charts to analyze Box’s revenue growth, average revenue per customer, sales efficiency and more in “Benchmarking Box’s Updated S-1 –… Read Full Article
From the Investors Tomasz Tunguz of Redpoint Ventures believes the public tech companies’ cash reserves of $430B and ‘huge pressure for growth’ will fuel startup M&A in 2015 in “The… Read Full Article
From the Investors Leo Polovets of Susa Ventures presents his idea of ‘estimated marginal dilution’ and how to ‘avoid fatal pinches in the first place’ in “Fatal Pinches, Seed Follow-On… Read Full Article
2014 Startup Traction Report by Mattermark Today I am proud to announce the release of the first Startup Traction Report which is available for immediate download here. This report provides a data-driven… Read Full Article
From the Investors Tomasz Tunguz of Redpoint Ventures details ‘three fundamental reasons for the bull market’, profiles industry risks and concludes, ‘it’s a great time to be a founder’ in… Read Full Article
From the Investors Tomasz Tunguz of Redpoint Ventures reports that the average SaaS IPO company in 2014 has raised four rounds, ‘pop’ between 50-100% after IPO and more trends he identifies in “The 2014… Read Full Article
From the Investors Michael Seibel, Dalton Caldwell and Qasar Younis of Y Combinator share the ‘hallmarks of a good pitch’ in a mock investor meeting and Tyler Bosmeny of Clever… Read Full Article
From the Investors Mike Brown, Jr. of Bowery Capital details the top ten ‘Opportunities in Vertical Software’ and the current ‘major and emerging players in each vertical’ in “Vertical Software… Read Full Article
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
Startups generally use their company blogs to talk about big new features, but over the past couple of months we’ve put emphasis on polishing the experience of Mattermark from the user interface… Read Full Article
Mattermark Daily is a hand-curated newsletter compiled daily to bring you first-person accounts of entrepreneurship, investment and other insightful reflections from the startup ecosystem. If you enjoy what you read… Read Full Article
Update (12/08/14): The report has launched and the pricing experiment is closed. You can still get the report for $99 here! Over the weekend we used Gumroad to launch an experimental “pay what… Read Full Article
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
As 2014 comes to a close, I’ve been thinking about how we can bootstrap more in-depth research efforts for the New Year including reports that take 20+ hours to write.… 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