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by dmor 12y ago
I didn't assert that.
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by dmor 12y ago
I looked into the market trend question, and it looks like YC Series A is trending up significantly faster than the market as a whole. Graph: https://twitter.com/DanielleMorrill/status/49357608066654208...
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by dmor 12y ago
My thinking here is that YC would try to get better at helping companies with their Series A with each deal... regardless of what amount of time elapsed between these deals. I think it fits well with the way investors think about the learni
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For Y Combinator startups, the average Series A is 5x larger than in 2008(mattermark.com)
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The Pooled-Risk Company Management Company (2008)(paulgraham.com)
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by dmor 12y ago
This isn't quite right, those 76 are the ones that have not yet exited. Many of the exited companies also raised money and were not included in that particular stat. I did some cohort analysis comparing YC, 500, and Techstars over a ye
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Post Launch Checklist: 10 Tasks You Should Complete (2012)(distributionhacks.com)
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by dmor 12y ago
Hi Sam, I was able to pull some data on these things via Mattermark. http://mattermark.com/yc-portfolio-stats-mattermark-crunches... 267 companies currently have 2 or more employees 8,164 people are currently employed by a
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Referly Investor Update Email Announcing Pivot to Mattermark (May 2013)(mattermark.com)
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Don't Waste a Single Moment (2012)(daniellemorrill.com)
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by dmor 12y ago
Yup. SmartAsset (YC S12) has an awesome calculator you can use to play with various scenarios: https://www.smartasset.com/infographic/startup
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by dmor 12y ago
I think a big difference might be cash flow - we are getting paid up front for annual contracts. So our ARR doesn't fully represent our cash position. We pay market rate salaries, benefits, etc.
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by dmor 12y ago
That comment needs to be kept in the context of my blog post -- it is based on the company in January when we went out to raise. We had 14 people on the team at that time, had reached ramen profitability and then decided to spend conservati
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by dmor 12y ago
I think SaaS companies are massively under-valued because most investors still do not understand how powerful a low churn recurring revenue stream is for a) predictable sales process/outcomes b) self-funding growth c) ability to take r
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by dmor 12y ago
We have taken nowhere near as much dilution as you are suggesting. I want to clarify this, because I don't want anyone else to think they should take 60% dilution before they take their real first equity round. Without revealing our en
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Mattermark Has Raised $2M in Our Second Seed Round(medium.com)
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by dmor 12y ago
This is a really important insight as you read this study. We are starting to collect unrealized and realized IRR data from funds, and I hope we will be able to provide a more performance-based index ranking soon.
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Ranking Startup Investors by Portfolio Momentum for Q2 2014(mattermark.com)
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ProductHunt is the Hot New Destination for Sourcing Startup Investments(mattermark.com)
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How to Integrate Salesforce with Your Mattermark Account(mattermark.com)
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The Data on Drones: Why David Weekly’s New Drone.VC Syndicate Might Have Wings(mattermark.com)
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Lessons from Twilio: Content Marketing to Developers(heavybit.com)
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How Mobile Commerce Will Yield the Next $100B Startup(mattermark.com)
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Lead Qualification Is Surpassing VC Deal Sourcing as Top Use of Mattermark(mattermark.com)
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A Data-Driven Exploration of Tech IPOs From 1997 to Present(mattermark.com)
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Are you Managing the Signals Your Startup is Sending?(medium.com)
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by dmor 13y ago
Mattermark founder here, and to be clear we are not "prognosticating" - the Mattermark Score has not been proven to be predictive in any way. It is descriptive, describing which companies are getting more and more people to care a
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How Mattermark Teamed Up With Bloomberg Beta to Predict Who Will Start Companies(mattermark.com)
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Future founders: Using big data to predict who will launch tomorrow’s startups(venturebeat.com)
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by dmor 13y ago
Exactly. We have 1 year of data, and are certainly backtesting. So far the only thing we can really test is whether momentum helps with fundraising... more on that soon

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