Media 8 Ways Matter Eight is Changing the Future of Media Our eighth cohort is moving onward and upward. We anticipate great things. Matter kicked off 2018 with a new cohort of intelligent, capable entrepreneurs with big visions for the media
Media Startup 🎧 The Drunken Walk, S3-E2: Gaby Darbyshire — Principal, Framestore Ventures In this episode of The Drunken Walk, a series that follows the ups and downs of what it means to be an entrepreneur, we spoke with Gaby Darbyshire, Principal at
Media 🎧 The Drunken Walk, S3-E1: Rebecca Kaden—Partner, Union Square Ventures We’re back with the first episode of Season Three of The Drunken Walk! Our eighth class of media startups just started their 20–week journey through Matter in San
Entrepreneurship Applying to Matter Nine? Here’s how we evaluate our accelerator investments. Applications are open for Matter Nine. In conjunction with our launch we wanted to demystify the process we use to evaluate companies. At Matter we look at five critical elements
Media Build the media platform of tomorrow. The way we learn about the world is transforming.The next wave of internet platforms is coming into view. Four years from now, over half of us will have an
Entrepreneurship Maximizing the Matter Experience Top highlightTwenty weeks go by in a blink. At Matter, our program can seem impossibly long when we begin with our bootcamp, and just as it gets hard to imagine
Media Matter 2017: The Year of the Rebelpreneur, Realized. From the very start, Matter has been guided by a mission bigger than any one of us as individuals: Change Media for Good, supporting early stage media entrepreneurs and established
Media Join Matter Eight Top highlightMedia is the bedrock of democracy.It’s the way we learn about the world. It connects us. It empowers us to make stronger decisions by arming us with
Media Applying to Matter? Here’s how we think about our accelerator investments. Applications are open for Matter Eight. In conjunction with our launch we wanted to demystify the process we use to evaluate companies. At Matter we look at five critical elements
Entrepreneurship Matter: Redefining Media Entrepreneurship I’m grateful for having the opportunity to do my MBA summer internship at Matter, a media accelerator and investment firm that supports media entrepreneurs who are building a more
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
Venture Capital Rules for Rebelpreneurs Top highlightJournalists are under threat in our country — people don’t trust the news, fake publications and “alternative facts” make it an increasingly burdensome task to identify the truth, and
Entrepreneurship It’s time for media to step up. Top highlightMatter has always set out to create a more informed, connected, and empowered society. We hope to invest in diverse teams, and teams supporting under-represented communities. When more of
Diversity Be Better! Top highlightLast year I had the honor of participating in the United State of Women Summit, a gathering focused on gender equality and empowerment that kicked-off the #StateofWomen movement. Oprah
Misinformation Why Misinfocon gives me hope Let’s start with this: if you don’t know what Misinfocon is or what it’s all about, you should. The summit, which took place the last weekend of
Media Want to be a part of Matter Seven? Here’s what we look for. Top highlightMedia is under siege, which means so is our democracy — but there is a silver lining. Now more than ever, founders have the opportunity to effect a positive change
Startup “You’re borrowing time now to get more time later.” Top highlightDanielle Morrill practices radical candor. “I got into Y-Combinator as a solo female founder, probably with the only launched product that had revenue. So I was like feeling like
Startup “We don’t do a lot with atoms. We’re much more interested in electrons.” Betaworks is a hybrid beast. Part VC firm, part incubator, part workshop, its core business is the “studio” where new consumer internet companies are built from scratch. Every line of
Startup The Real Value of Acceleration Top highlightThe signals are everywhere — press, macroeconomic indicators, and investment activity itself — that a new crunch is coming: raising a Series A round is already difficult and is about to
Fundraising Seed Stage Fundraising Two years ago Corey Ford, the Managing Director at Matter, and I were introduced through Designer Fund and the d-school at Stanford. We ended up sharing a workspace at Hattery,
