Here’s What You Need To Know About Q3 VC With the third quarter behind us, it is time to take it into account. Today Mattermark walks you through the biggest numbers and most important trends inside of Q3 VC. Here are the final results. Editor's Note: scroll down to discover open startup job positions Weekly Digest: Top 10 Featured Posts Claire Fauquier of Corigin Ventures put together a cohort analysis template for both subscription and ecommerce businesses with an explanation and a how-to guide in “Understanding Cohort Analyses” Woodside Capital Partners and DFCi analyze the landscape of gaming’s individual sectors (PC, mobile, console and emerging technologies) as well as reports on M&A activity across the industry in “$73B+ Game Industry Overview” (PDF) Arjun Sethi and Andy Artz of Social Capital explain how traditional social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are growing stale, and why the "hive" is the new network, where it's about increasing interactions between people and data, not merely connecting them in “The Hive is the New Network” Aswath Damadaran, a professor of Finance at NYU's Stern School of Business, makes the important distinction of how VCs price companies, not value them in “VCs Don’t Value Companies” Maria Palma of RRE Ventures releases a 165 slide deck on how to source, hire and retain world class talent in “The Talent Playbook” Farhad Manjoo of The New York Times uncovers how ‘MailChimp’s founders built the company slowly by anticipating customers’ needs and following their instincts’ in “MailChimp and the Un-Silicon Valley Way to Make It as a Start-Up” Kyle Samani of WorkingOnHisNextAdventure examines the types of sales funnels, draws out a few conclusions, and details how sales funnels can be improved in “Understanding The Sales Funnel” David Gimbel of Impact Radius features a scalable framework for building sales development teams in "How to Set Up an Outbound SDR Process" Jose Ancer, a startup lawyer, Before you even talk to VCs, know your own strengths and weaknesses as a leader, and work on them in “When You’re Not CEO Material” Sylvia Ng of 500px recognizes that it simply isn’t enough to be doing analytics piecemeal anymore and provides a tactical framework in “Setting Up Analytics for Your Tech Startup to Scale” How Women VCs Affect The Performance Of Firms And Startups (read more) As the technology world works on becoming a more diverse, vibrant place, the world of venture capital remains too uniform for comfort. What impact does gender diversity have on the venture space? Mattermark went and found out.
4 Ways Sales Teams Can Leverage Dreamforce Exhibitor Data (read more) How can you make the most of your Dreamforce leads? Get your sales team to do a bit of homework. To get you started, we pulled together the list of the 227 Dreamforce exhibitors and sponsors, dropped it into Mattermark, so you can identify which companies and accounts you want to talk to based on key insights like funding rounds raised, employee growth, and more.
Squaring Snapchat’s Rumored $25B IPO Valuation And Twitter’s Modest $14B Market Cap (read more) The younger company with far smaller revenues is said to be worth around $10 billion more than its larger foe. Let’s find out why. Startup Job Openings Are you a startup hiring for sales, marketing, product, engineering? Are you a venture fund or financial organization hiring associates, analysts, corp dev? Reply to this email with a link to the position and we'll feature it next weekend. Editor's Note The perfect amount of global business news, in five minutes If you're not already subscribed to Quartz's excellent Daily Brief email, you probably should be. The Daily Brief is just the right amount of global business news you want each morning, contains stories from around the web, and feels like it was written by a smart, trusted advisor. Check it out here. | 