This post is part of our ongoing coverage of Y Combinator Demo Day Summer 2013. If you like what you read here we hope you will consider subscribing to Mattermark… Read Full Article
If you were an investor considering Instagram’s Series A, could stats on Twitter mentions have helped you get in on the deal? The company shared on TechCrunch that they had… Read Full Article
At Mattermark we’re all about rewarding the consistent high-growth over the long term, and that’s what our proprietary Mattermark score calculates (and also factors out big spikes due to suddenly… Read Full Article
Looking for the rankings? Scroll down to the bottom of this post to view the spreadsheet of companies in the current 500 Startups batch. 500 Startups ringleader Dave McClure offers… Read Full Article
These companies have the highest Mattermark Scores in our database, meaning that according to our measurements they are achieving consistent and meaningful week-over-week growth across several factors we are tracking… Read Full Article
This is the Startup Index series, an ongoing effort to measure the momentum of startup companies using external signals. It is calculated based on weighted factors such as web traffic,… Read Full Article
Last week I published the April index of startups ranked by momentum. But scrolling through hundreds of rows isn’t much fun when all you really want to find the diamonds… Read Full Article
How to Read the Startup Momentum Index Momentum measures a quantity of motion, measured as a product of its mass and velocity. In case we want to measure the momentum… Read Full Article
Through the startups indexes I’ve been creating in the past month I’ve developed a database of over 1,000 companies with dozens of signals each. This list includes ALL the startups… Read Full Article
Last month the first Y Combinator index ranked the entire portfolio by web traffic and Facebook monthly active users (where applicable). These two data points provided some relative ranking, but… Read Full Article