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All This Has Happened Before
tl;dr: Journalist and editor Owen Thomas has a must-read take on what is going on in the public and private markets. He’s here to talk you down from the ledge. Is… Read Full Article
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Here’s Where Startups Raised Around The World In 2015
tl;dr Want to see where capital was deployed last year? Mattermark has you covered. If you are a regular Mattermark reader, I presume you spend more time than most inside… Read Full Article
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Stumbling Unicorns
TL;DR: Markets are a mess, and some public tech companies you know and love are at risk of becoming non-icorns. Have you heard about the stock market? It is not doing… Read Full Article
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Here’s Why LinkedIn Shares Tanked 25%
tl;dr Investors pre-paid too much for expected future growth. Taking a break from our usual focus on markets and not individual participants, let’s dig into what in the heck is going… Read Full Article
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Bitcoin Investment Is Back From The Dead (As Expected)
tl;dr As expected, investment into bitcoin-related startups is not dead. *insert panic among the haters. Investment into bitcoin startups appears healthy this year, reversing a noted slowdown that occurred towards the end of… Read Full Article
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Reports Of Unicorn Extinction Are Greatly Exaggerated
Editor’s note: The following post was written by Anshu Sharma of Storm Ventures. He is not bearish on the current startup ecosystem, even as the stock market suffers notable declines. You’ve… Read Full Article
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Inside Microsoft’s Quest For $20B In Commercial Cloud Revenue
Microsoft has big revenue goals for its cloud business — how is it faring? It’s earnings season all over again, giving us nerds market enthusiasts a fresh look into how public… Read Full Article
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A Second Look At The 2015 Tech IPO Market
Last week, we took a look at the performance of 2015 technology IPOs compared to their then-current share price. The results weren’t pretty: Tech offerings averaged around a 30 percent… Read Full Article
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What Product VPs At High-Growth Startups Have In Common
Editor’s note: The following post was written by Mike Belsito, a co-founder at Product Collective. The article surfaces common characteristics of product VPs at growing startups. Looking to hire? This should help.… Read Full Article
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Where To Get Funded In 2016 That Isn’t Silicon Valley
Editor’s Note: The author of this piece, Jason D. Rowley, is a freelance journalist, entrepreneur, and proud Chicago resident. Entrepreneurs and investors both know that, for better and worse, the San… Read Full Article
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Midwest Investors Lead Global Venture Capitalists In Optimism
Editor’s note: The following post delves into what is sometimes called the ‘Chicago approach’ to building companies. The Chicago method focuses on early revenue, and frugality over delayed top line and higher burn —… Read Full Article
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2015 Tech IPOs Underwhelm to the Tune of 30% From Their First Day Close
tl;dr 2015 tech IPOs aren’t performing well. Their decline could limit 2016 IPOs, and dampen valuations for growing private tech companies. The 2015 technology IPO market was lackluster. The sheer… Read Full Article
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Relax, The Slowdown In Bitcoin Investment Isn’t As Bad As It Looks
tl;dr: Don’t worry too much that venture investment into bitcoin-focused startups fell as 2015 came to a close. After a surprising rally in the final months of 2015, bitcoin is back… Read Full Article
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Fear And Loathing In The PC Market
Most startups target iOS and Android. The two mobile platforms are for many companies the only platforms. At the same time, the PC market remains quite large. Should companies looking… Read Full Article
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Mattermark’s Guest Post Guidelines
// We’re publishing this to save you time. We think that you’re great. // Mattermark’s blog occasionally publishes guest posts from members of the community. It’s a fun, and functional… Read Full Article
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Welcome To The (New) Mattermark Blog
Hello, Mattermark friends and family. Welcome to the next chapter of the Mattermark blog. It may not look much different yet, but we’re ramping up our editorial operation. Over the next… Read Full Article
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Who Are Some of the VCs You Should Pitch When You Fundraise?
Fundraising is the most difficult job of a startup CEO, but also the most essential. If you don’t have the resources to take your company to the next phase of… Read Full Article
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Where Seed VCs Should (But Often Don’t) Look for the Next Consumer Startup Unicorns
All venture capitalists like to say they invest in companies looking to disrupt big markets — that next unicorn. And every startup pitch deck will showcase huge numbers on their market size slide,… Read Full Article
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Have Startup Investors Pulled Back From the Brink? Venture Capital Returns to Pre 2014 Levels in Q4
With 13 business days left in 2015, Q4 is on pace for a dramatic decline in startup funding over recent quarters, with total investment currently standing at $11 Billion. The last time startup… Read Full Article
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The Micro VCs Are Coming
Micro VC is a quickly growing category. When I began angel investing nearly a decade ago, I knew perhaps two firms. When we started Urban.Us two years go, we began… Read Full Article
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November Pre Series A Deal Data May Show Early Evidence of VC “Slowdown”
Anecdotally, private company investors I’ve spoken to are nervous about market conditions for startup investing. I’ve had conversations with several VCs who told me their fund decided to back off on… Read Full Article
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A VC’s Review of 22 On-Demand Startups
It’s been a few years now since the uprising of on-demand startups in seemingly every vertical. Time to revisit, and see which have proven to be mainstays and which have… Read Full Article
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The Outcome Mind Trap – A Startup Business Lesson from the Battlefield
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
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Terrifying Truths of Entrepreneurship: Read before you leap
These days you hear young people humming in excitement about their new startups, and already established companies are making it even bigger. It’s a good time to be an entrepreneur,… Read Full Article