Startups Enough is enough. It’s time to support startups that respect our rights. It’s hard to avoid the headlines. The personal information of tens of millions of people was scraped by a political consultant campaign, using the API of the world’s largest social network. There was no data breach; there were no hackers. The information taken from the API as designed,
Startup 🎧 The Drunken Walk, S1-E6: Matt Hartman— Partner, Betaworks It’s a truth universally acknowledged that, as an early stage entrepreneur, the better you know how investors think, the better you’ll know how to pitch to them when you’re fundraising. That’s why we have Matt Hartman, Partner at Betaworks, on this final episode of our first
Media 🎧 The Drunken Walk, S1-E3: Chloe Sladden— Founding Partner, #Angels Welcome to the next installment of our 6-part podcast series sharing the personal stories that illustrate the tumultuous journey of the media entrepreneur. Our guest this week, Chloe Sladden, has worked as an assistant to a literary agent, a management consultant in media, a director of documentary film, a VP
Media “Relentlessness is my middle name.” We take User-Generated Content for granted as part of TV news coverage today, but that trend had to start somewhere. Chloe Sladden had a major role to play in its genesis: at Current TV, she became the first person to integrate tweets into a live broadcast. The breakthrough almost didn’
Startup 300 Pitches Top highlightYou have been working tirelessly for weeks, months, maybe over a year, and after submitting your application to Matter’s accelerator program, you’ve been asked to come in and pitch. You walk into a conference room and there are 2 people sitting at a table. There’s a
