Taking Stock Of Rocket Internet’s Health (more)
Instagram thinks that Snapchat Stories are great, and worth mimicking. Rocket Internet wants to do that at scale. How is the startup factory faring? Mattermark took a look.
Editor's Note: scroll down to discover open startup job positions
Weekly Digest: Top 10 Featured Posts
Jean-Baptiste Dumont of Serena Capital dives into how data is a new medium between humans, machines and nature allowing us to leverage on our new digital abilities to go further in “The Data Revolution”
Victor Gutwein of M25 Group summarizes what the early-stage due diligence process should involve - and what it shouldn't - in “No Nonsense Due Diligence”
Jason Shuman from Corigin Ventures explains why he thinks founders should ask investors what goals they measure themselves against in “Dear Founders, Here Are My KPIs”
Elizabeth Yin of 500 Startups believes ideas are a dime a dozen, speed matters, it’s important to address competition upfront, and first-impressions are critical in “What I’ve Learned from Seeing 20k Company Pitches”
Mahesh Vellanki of Redpoint Ventures talks about the consumer businesses he would start tomorrow if he were an entrepreneur in “A VC’s Personal List of Startup Ideas”
Chris Yin of Coupa on why it is critically important to make sure that you have or are getting the right people for your company in “How to Scale Your Startup: Part 2 — People”
Ellen Chisa of Lola sees that sometimes scale means hiring, but sometimes it’s finding the right person internally or breaking the responsibilities up between multiple people in “When Should You a Hire a Product Manager?”
Gary Gaspar of Marker explains the logic behind the SaaS financial planning template he created and how it was constructed in “Simple SaaS Financial Model For Early-Stage Startups”
Brian Balfour of Reforge takes a stance on how founders and product/growth leads should invest in the longer term process of learning growth rather than chase "growth hack-tics" in “7 Principles To Mastering Growth Marketing”
Ooshma Garg of Gobble shares the three things she believes allowed Gobble to survive long enough to be the success it is today in “Growing Gobble to $100M in Sales”
Why Twitter Shouldn’t Sell (read more)
While Snapchat reportedly preps an IPO, the Silicon Valley rumor mill is alight with chatter about who will buy Twitter. But what if the answer is no one? Mattermark investigates.
How One Startup Focused On The Long Tail To Drive Enterprise Traction (read more)
Fresh off its Series A, Shippo CEO Laura Behrens Wu writes about how the company she founded turned to small clients to help it land big accounts. The lesson: Sometimes to go big, you must first go small.
Civic Tech Faces Uphill Battle In Work To Build A Better Government And Society (read more)
Civic Tech companies aim to make interacting with government less painful and contributing to society easier, but they face logistical hurdles.
Mattermark investigates.
Startup Job Openings
Y Combinator - Investment Associate for Continuity Fund in San Francisco.
Hired - Senior Director of Sales Operations in San Francisco.
Confident Cannabis - Front End Developers in Palo Alto.
Duo Security - QA Director in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Enlitic - Business Development in San Francisco.
Pilot - Account Executive and Sales Development Rep in New York City.
Revue - Head of Growth in the Netherlands.
Advanon - multiple positions in Zurich, Switzerland
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