Mattermark Daily – Monday, January 11th, 2016
From the Investors Adam Quinton of Lucas Point Ventures warns that while there are more angels per capita, check writing is on the decline, which may lead to more early… Read Full Article
From the Investors Adam Quinton of Lucas Point Ventures warns that while there are more angels per capita, check writing is on the decline, which may lead to more early… Read Full Article
From the Investors Bruce Booth of Atlas Venture expands on four different characteristics of the current biotech market in contrast to its historic background in “This Time May Be Different:… Read Full Article
Happy New Year, Mattermark Daily readers! Hope 2016 has wonderful things in store for you. For a recap of posts by investors and founders with their 2015 reflections and 2016 predictions, read… Read Full Article
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
From the Investors Brian Feinstein of Bessemer Venture Partners guides founders to get the most out of venture debt in “Ten Questions Every Founder Should Ask Before Raising Venture Debt”… Read Full Article
With Mattermark, you can sort through over 1.4 million privately owned companies based on location, total funding, industry, employee growth month over month, total employees, Growth Score, Mindshare Score, and much… Read Full Article
From the Investors Venture Capitalist, Gil Dibner publishes a 13-slide data-driven presentation that details the Nordic investing environment in “A Few Data Points on Nordic VC” (SlideShare) Tomasz Tunguz of… Read Full Article
From the Investors Tomasz Tunguz of Redpoint Ventures uses data to back his expectation that 2016 will be healthy for software IPOs and exits in “2015 Software Startup IPOs and… Read Full Article
From the Investors David Skok of Matrix Partners compares SaaS application delivery methods, operations costs and gross margins, contract terms, churn rates and more in “2015 Pacific Crest SaaS Survey… Read Full Article
From the Investors Michael Moe, Deborah Quazzo, and Nick Franco of GSV offer an aspirational vision for how to address society’s greatest challenge in a comprehensive white paper exploring the… Read Full Article
From the Investors Alex Iskold of Techstars reflects on how he evaluated Tutum before investing and the characteristics they have that led to being acquired in “Docker Buys Tutm: What… Read Full Article
From the Investors Manu Kumar of K9 Ventures declares that the maximum amount of dollars are entering the Venture Capital industry and explains why in “#PeakVC” AngelList announces that CSC… Read Full Article
From the Investors David Teten of ff Venture Capital presents his slideshow of research on the ways large corporations can identify the ‘next generation of disruptive companies’ in “How Large… Read Full Article
Dealmakers predict company trajectories and how potential investments reach liquidity to evaluate potential investments. With that in mind, we are excited to announce updated exit mappings. Now, you may discover… Read Full Article
From the Investors David Lee of SV Angel provides an ‘insider look’ into how he communicates funding advice to founders by showing an email he sent to a startup he… Read Full Article
You can use Mattermark to create your own lists to track venture portfolios, target prospects, source new deals, research industry and vertical specific trends, and much more. Sign In or… Read Full Article
From the Investors Arsham Memarzadeh of OpenView Partners finds that on average, founders have 15% equity ownership of their company post-IPO, two founders ‘are better than one’ and more metrics… 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
If you listen to the tech media, they’d have you believe that the tech companies positioning themselves to go public today are as financially weak as those from the tech bubble… Read Full Article