One of the newest buzzwords floating around in the VC ecosystem and the financial services industry is “Fintech”. A word that means different things to different people. The old definition of… Read Full Article
Scale. Ready or not, you’ll be forced to figure out how to scale your company as you gain momentum. But, don’t start worrying about scale too soon…though don’t wait too… Read Full Article
Let’s face it, as an entrepreneur you’re going to fail and fail a lot. You’ll have assumptions, you’ll spend money (sometimes mountains of it), you’ll recruit incredible people to work… Read Full Article
One day, software will have eaten healthcare. That day has not come yet, but it will. And it’ll come just in time. First of all, what do we mean when… Read Full Article
People used to worry about the “IPO window” closing before they could get their company significantly far along to exit. Now, with the rise of massive private rounds from late… Read Full Article
Below is an email I sent to the Mattermark team earlier today. I thought it would be good to share with a broader audience, as I hope all San Francisco residents… Read Full Article
Just in case you’ve been asleep all afternoon, Google just dramatically changed their corporate structure by creating a new company called Alphabet. It didn’t take long for the Internet to take… Read Full Article
We’re well into the dog days of Summer 2015, and the year has seen interesting shifts in the early stage investing landscape. 1,163 Internet technology startups received a cumulative $9… Read Full Article
Professional networking events are terrible. There, I said it. Don’t be ashamed if you feel the same way. I felt it myself when I first moved to the Bay Area.… Read Full Article
This post is part of our Startup Funding Benchmarking Series exploring the allocation, concentration, and macro trends in the financing of high growth startups. Yesterday we published an analysis of… Read Full Article
GoButler, the text message based 24/7 on-demand concierge service, announced on Thursday that it has raised a $8 Million funding round led by General Catalyst. Slow Ventures, Global Founders Capital,… Read Full Article
In this post I explore the current state of the On-Demand economy, Homejoy’s recent shutdown and what the future holds for the fastest growing startups in the space. Scroll to… Read Full Article
On January 26, 2015, Mattermark asked the startup community a question. Who are the most promising Series A Candidates for 2015? We ran a quick analysis of 20 companies who… Read Full Article
Inspired by a post from Andrew Parker of Spark Capital titled “Series A Investment Pace Across Select VC Firms” we have published our report on venture capital industry trends over the… Read Full Article
Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures reacted to the idea that founders prefer to take money in the private market because they don’t want to answer to public investors who… Read Full Article
This morning I wrote about the Fitbit IPO, and casually referenced the company as a “dragon startup”. It turns out I can’t keep these mythical creatures straight, and *technically* at… Read Full Article
Congratulations to our investor Brad Feld on the IPO of Fitbit today, which is a dragon startup for the Foundry Group venture capital fund. Dragon startups return $1 Billion or… Read Full Article
As the Golden State Warriors were mid-game, Business Insider published a post around 7pm (Update: their timestamps are Eastern Time — my bad) last night highlighting a regulatory filing that came… Read Full Article
This morning, Mattermark cofounder Andy Sparks took to the stage to delivery a “Mary Meeker style” state of startups, complete with a dense data packed deck reviewing recent trends and… Read Full Article
As VC funding levels approach record levels and Q2 comes to a close, Mattermark checks in on Series A rounds. Average round size continued to push higher, thanks to large outlier rounds… Read Full Article
After we posted the relationship between the growing Internet population and venture capital funding rounds on pace to reach the highest levels since 2000, a savvy reader suggested we might… Read Full Article
Earlier today we published data demonstrating that the U.S. venture capital market is on pace to experience the highest amount of funding since 2000. As one of our readers pointed out this… Read Full Article
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General & Administrative Welcome to G&A, a newsletter produced by the people who lovingly bring you first-person accounts of entrepreneurship, investment and insights from the startup ecosystem in The Mattermark… Read Full Article