Houston, Texas and the surrounding areas have been devastated by Hurricane Harvey. We at Mattermark urge you to donate anything you can, whether it's to the Red Cross or another local or national organization (the New York Times has a good list of organizations, as well as advice on how to avoid scams).
From the Operators
We chatted with Diego Ventura of noHold and asked him some questions about how they approach sales and operations, to which he discussed expanding beyond direct sales, how they use industry reports to know their customer better, and his opinion on what success really means. Read the full interview over on the Mattermark Blog.
Rahul Singireddy of Open Ocean has published a fantastic biography of Michael “Monty” Widenius, creator of MySQL, covering how Monty got started as a programmer and turned MySQL into the most popular database in the world in “Founder Stories: A Hacker’s Hacker”
Isaac Oates of Justworks emphasizes that seed-stage founders should under-title new hires, not compromise on culture, and worry less about competitors in “Three Things I'd Tell My Seed-Stage Self”
Ankur Nagpal of Teachable publicly shares their revenue, headcount, and other growth metrics, as well as spells out their strategy to grow their business over the next decade in “Scaling Teachable: Our Journey to $500k+ in MRR”
From the Investors
Astasia Myers of Redpoint goes over the myriad terms used to describe serverless computing, outlining the benefits and differences between them in “De-Mystifying Serverless Terms”
Guy Turner of Hyde Park Venture Partners has put together a chart and explanations around “When to make senior hires from $0 to 10M in revenue”, emphasizing the similarities amongst functions around when to hire for which titles.
Scott Lenet of Touchdown Ventures outlines the “14 Points” that “define the strategy of any professional venture investment program” and how they're related.
Jobs!
Thomas Doochin of Daymaker wrote in to tell us about two positions they’re looking to fill!
What they do: Let kids ask guests to donate a gift to those who are less fortunate when the guest RSVPs to their birthday party
Open positions: Creative Director (NYC or D.C.), and Business Operations Associate (D.C.)
In their own words: We're building a platform and experience that recognizes the good inherent to all people - starting with kids.
Want to put a job in this section? Send an email to editor@mattermark.com with a short clever blurb on why your company is a great place to work and what makes your company special, with links to your top two jobs. We’ll consider including it in a future issue!
