This past week we tried a new experiment, publishing a Mattermark newsletter every day with a selection of links and other news from the startup investment ecosystem. Below you’ll find our picks throughout the week, providing great weekend reading if you’re trying to catch up on the industry before the work week begins.
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THE INDUSTRY
ff Venture Capital Touts Fundraising Under New SEC Rules as Most VCs Hold Back by Russ Garland at The Wall Street Journal (read more on the ff Venture blog)
Mark Andreessen: No, no, no. We Still Do Series A Startup Funding by Cromwell Schubarth at Silicon Valley Business Journal (and find the Hacker News thread where Andreessen clarified here)
Ryan Sarver on Why He Became a VC by Leena Rao at TechCrunch
We Care About by Nivi on the VentureHacks blog (AngelList)
Are Medical Device Startups Invited to the Biotech IPO Party? by Damian Garde at Fierce Medical Devices
Comparing ‘Shark Tank’ to Venture Capital Reality by George Deeb at Forbes.com
Deal Selection in Venture Capital by Rob Go of Nextview Ventures
About the Recent Spate of Large IPOs by John Lonsdale of Formation 8 Partners
Do VCs Expect Too Little From Marketing Tech Startups? by Judy Shapiro, CEO & Founder of engageSimply
Weary of ‘Fruit Fly’ Consumer Startups, Andreessen Horowitz Raises Series A Bar by Yuliya Chernova at the Wall Street Journal
Bridge Rounds vs. Series A Rounds by Danny Boice on Tech Cocktail
Venture Capital Financing Statistics in the U.S. [Infographic] by Business Ideas Lab
As More Startups Move to San Francisco, Y Combinator Opens A Satellite Office In the City by Ryan Lawler
We’re All Investors, But We’re No Angels by Dan Primack at Fortune
Lessons That Matter: Six Takeaways From the Accelerator’s First Class of Startups by Hannah Eaves at the Knight Foundation
The Rise of Fat Venture Capital by Andrew Chen
The Glorious Post Seed Startup Financing Chaos by Fred Destin of Atlas Venture
The Separation of Advice and Money by Sam Altman of Y Combinator
In Defense of Selling Out by Bijan Sabet of Spark Capital
Why Should VCs Hire Associates? by Roger Ehrenberg of IA Ventures
What Do Venture Capitalists Do Everyday? by Ilan Saks on BetaKit
Is the Cost of Starting a Business Less Than Zero? by Seth Levine of Foundry Group
Splice by Andy Weissman of Union Square Ventures, on his latest investment
AngelList and Beyond: What VCs Really Think of Crowdfunding by Lora Kolodny at the Wall Street Journal
Chart: Zulily is Bigger Than Twitter, and Grew Faster Over the Past 3 Years by John Cook at Geekwire
Openbeta Syndicates – Two Weeks In… by Betaworks (disclosure: I was an early investor in Estimote, whose syndicated round on AngelList is discussed in this post)
Waterloo’s Velocity Renames Venture Fund, Shakes Up Funding Structure by Joseph Czikk at BetaKit
Andreessen to Whiny VCs: “I feel terrible! How will they afford their third vineyard?” by Sarah Lacy at PandoDaily
Who’s Cashing in on the Tech IPO Surge? These VCs Are by Cromwell Schubarth at Silicon Valley Business Journal
THE OPERATORS
Not Always Up & To the Right by John Lilly of Greylock
GrowthHackers.com – pretty useful stuff being curated here, get some good Internet marketing advice regardless of what you think of the “growth hacker” movement
The Mega Guide to Maximizing eCommerce Sales, Revenues and Performance on All Fronts by KISSmetrics
How YesGraph Got Its First 1000 Users
Business Love by Brad Feld of Foundry Group
Love, Greed & Fear: What’s at the Core of Your Product? by Hunter Walk, Homebrew VC
The Why and How of Updating Your Angel Investors by Dharmesh Shah on OnStartups
Inside AirBNB with Its Co-Founders on Charlie Rose on Bloomberg TV
The Best Series A Story Ever: How One Company Landed a Great Valuation on a 24-Hour Deadline by Carmel Deamicis at Pando Daily
Introducing Our New CEO, Richard Jalichandra by John Ramey, Founder of iSocket
Sales Efficiency Benchmarks for SaaS Startups by Tomasz Tunguz
What Makes a Great VC by Micah Baldwin, CEO & Founder of Graphicly
Joining Wealthfront by Andy Johns
My Reaction to Zulily’s IPO and Flash Sales Explained by Greg Bettinelli
Don’t Be a Gatekeeper by Julia Zhuo at Facebook
The Simplest Brand Health Question for Your Startup by Tomasz Tunguz of Redpoint Ventures
There’s a .00006% Chance of Building a Billion Dollar Company: How This Man Did It by First Round Review
How Do You Motivate Yourself and Stay Focused? by Mark Suster of Upfront Ventures
How to Turn Data & Creativity Into Content in 3 Steps by Brad Miller at Search Engine Land
No More MBOs by Brad Feld of Foundry Group
Cash Flow & Destiny by Ben Horowitz
Measuring SaaS (or Cloud) Renewal Rates: Way More Than Meets the Eye by Dave Kellogg
The Cold Emails That Got Me Meetings at Twitter, LinkedIn and Github by Tapiki Cofounder Iris Shoor
Tech is NYC’s Second Largest Job Sector by Fred Wilson at Union Square Ventures
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