Here Are The Investors Most Likely To Cut You A Second Check (read more) Selecting your next investor? Alex Wilhelm, Editor-in-Chief of Mattermark, digs into the data to find the top 25 investors who like to cut a second check. Here's the story Editor's Note: scroll down to discover open sales & marketing positions Weekly Digest: Top 10 Featured Posts Sam Altman of Y Combinator goes against the grain in regards to the current market for seed funding in “We Warned the YC Batch” Saku Panditharatne of Andreessen Horowitz gives her take on how to spot the next big trends in tech in “Hunting What’s Next in High Tech” Jo Tango of Kepha Partners walks through the four numbers that really distill how your business is doing and how you’re managing it in “The Most Important Four Numbers in a Board Deck” Christoph Janz of Point Nine Capital publishes an updated financial plan template for SaaS startups in "SaaS Financial Plan 2.0" Semil Shah of Haystack Fund gives his take on where the early-stage startup financing market is today in “Early-Stage Investing: Notes From The Field” Dave Kellogg of Host Analytics explains the CAC payback period in “CAC Payback Period: The Most Misunderstood SaaS Metric” Mike Lloyd of Poncho examines unit economics in order to understand how they impact the strategy of a marketplace in “Unit Economics: The Vital Signs of Online Marketplaces” Tatiana Livesey & Diana Isac of Winerist share a collection of their experiences over the past years as female founders in “Beware of Startup Prostitution” Bill Bobbitt of Move Loot shares tips to systematize launches into an ever-improving formula in “The 5 Steps to a Successful Product Launch” Brett Bivens of Visible lays out a framework for how to think about the importance of telling your company's story in “The Storytelling Thesis” The Top 15 Y Combinator Winter 2016 Demo Day Startups (read more) Y Combinator’s Demo Day for its Winter 2016 batch took place this past week at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. We ranked this batch of Y Combinator companies. Here are the 15 with the highest Mattermark Growth Score Curb Your Expectations (read more) Alex Wilhelm, Editor-in-Chief of Mattermark, sat down with Vineet Jain, CEO of Egnyte, for a blunt conversation about what’s coming for startups, and how bad things might get. Here's the no BS interview Mattermark Raises $7.3 Million Series B Led by Foundry Group, Valuing the Company at $42 Million (read more) We’re so happy to share some big news - Mattermark has closed it's Series B round of financing. This is the second equity round for the company, and brings our total funding to $18.4 million. The New (New) Rules of Going Public (read more) Everyone knows the IPO market is tough for startups at the moment. What’s interesting is just how much harder it has become. Alex Wilhelm, Editor-in-Chief of Mattermark, investigates Startup Job Openings Mattermark is hiring a Director of Sales in San Francisco. Flock is looking for an Inside Sales Manager in San Francisco. PersistIQ is hiring an Account Executive in San Francisco. Hyde Park Venture Partners is hiring an Analyst in Chicago. Flatiron School is looking for a Marketing Director in New York City. Socratic is hiring a Head of Marketing in New York City. Vettery is hiring a Sales Developer in New York City. Volta Global is hiring a Content Marketing/Social Media Specialist in Miami. If you would like to feature a sales or marketing position in next weekend's newsletter, send an email to Sonia Bhasin. | 