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Inside Mattermark’s Ubiquitous Newsletter: Principles and Process

View from Seed

The Mattermark Daily consists of both original content from the company’s blog and a hand-curated list of featured posts from various investors, founders, and media members covering the startup ecosystem. Mattermark has a specific process that its newsletter curators follow in assembling the list of featured articles each day. “If

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Twitter Networks are Different than Social Networks

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve talked about how Twitter is a new form of RSS (curated RSS), it’s a a new form of IM / SMS , it’s a place where business is conducted and it’s a place where advertising will drive leads due to the link sharing nature of Twitter. I started reading Brad’s “term sheet&# series.

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What are some key points to look for when reviewing an investment offer in your startup?

Gust

Once you’ve settled on the investor, only then should you worry about the terms of the investment. A term sheet is not necessarily rocket science, and with enough time and effort can be understood by anyone. So start now, and help yourself by getting up to speed on what all the parts of a term sheet mean.

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What are the most valuable recommendations in order to raise money from VCs connected via Gust?

Gust

We have spent a great deal of effort to pull together some of the smartest experts in the money-raising field, and the blog is carefully curated to be useful specifically to entrepreneurs seeking funding. Among the contributors are Quora regulars including Tim Berry , Antone Johnson , Martin Zwilling and me.

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20 Recommended Quora Threads for Startups

ReadWriteStart

This weekend, Polaris Venture Partners' Ryan Spoon wrote a post on his blog, offering with a curated list of "must-read" Quora threads for entrepreneurs. Are there examples of good start up term sheets? Want to know, for example, why Foursquare uses MongoDB to store check-in information?

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Every Founder that Hates "Personal Branding" Should Write a Book

This is going to be BIG.

They’ll obviously see the value of what you built and will be compelled to offer a term sheet on the spot. Your whole “personal brand” could be just you curating the best thinking you can find on a particular topic as you seek to become the expert on that topic. That’s just not how it works.

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Advice for VCs from a serial founder

Austin Startup

Just don’t do reference checks ever until the term sheet has been issued and you’re almost ready to fund. If an introduction was properly curated (meaning double opt in) then you need to treat it with great care. Treat founder intros with care Many of my investors in Meta SaaS came through introductions from other founders.

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