About last night... and 11 must-read posts by Seth Levine, Samantha Quist, Fred Wilson, Erik Devaney, Tren Griffin, and more.
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Wednesday, November 9, 2016 |
| With hopes of making you smile, here's a cute cat ready to get to work. From the Investors Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures advises entrepreneurs to be cautious and maybe even a bit conservative while all of this shakes out, but not to panic and not confuse uncertain times with a lack of opportunity in “What Does Trump Mean For Startups?” Seth Levine of Foundry Group publishes the email he sent their CEO list where he encourages them to let things settle out in “Taking a Deep Breath” Jay Levy of Zelkova Ventures hopes to convey what can be learned from how recent political campaigns were ran to improve on business in “Lessons for Startups and Investors from the Election” Elizabeth Yin of 500 Startups believes we have a lot of work to do and invites everyone to continue to make progress in “Today We Go Back to Work…” Tim Kopp of Hyde Park Venture Partners highlights ways to optimize your sales funnel by focusing on your marketing messaging in " The MUST Do's to Revive Your Marketing Heartbeat" From the Operators Brock Benefiel of Visible outlines ways to be proactive with communication, analytics preparation, and expectation setting before raising an A round in “How to Avoid the Series A Crunch” Ulas Bardak of Whisper gives an in-depth response the question if machine learning is the ‘Big Bad Wolf’ of media in “Whisper Doesn’t Think So” Tren Griffin of Microsoft lists six reasons why venture capitalists prefer “missionaries to mercenaries” in “Passion vs Paranoia” Samantha Quist formerly of Gnip explains why founders should either invest a lot or next to nothing in design, and never take the middle ground in “The Design Conundrum for (Very) Early Stage Startups” Mark Schaefer of {grow} (yes, that’s the actual name) provides you with twenty-five ideas and best practices he uses to boost his content-producing productivity in “How Do I Find Time to Create Content?” Erik Devaney of Drift knows that customer success takes a longer-term view of the customer relationship and helps you learn the metrics to track that relationship in “The 3 Customer Success Metrics You Should Be Measuring” | |
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