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As Easy as Pie

The Pie team: co-founder Guillaume Sabran, co-founder Ceci Mourkogiannis, Lead Mobile Engineer Luis Grimaldo, and co-founder Jacob Trefethen360 video is the medium for immersive storytelling, and thanks to Pie [http://pie.video], anyone can do it. The Matter 5 company has just announced its seed round and launched an iOS

Where Will Matter 6 Be in 2020?

Artificial Intelligence

Where Will Matter 6 Be in 2020?

Scout’s Head of Product, Brett [https://medium.com/u/bdedace6a5a3?source=post_page-----beede64f4a3d--------------------------------] Horvath, and I have had the great pleasure of spending the last four months working side-by-side with eleven other incredible companies as a part of Matter. [https://medium.com/u/5d32fb15ef39?source=post_page-----beede64f4a3d--------------------------------] We’ve

2016: the year of “we did it”.

2016: the year of “we did it”.

Our plucky entrepreneurs go through “the garage door” on their first day of Bootcamp, and of the Matter Six program, in San Francisco (June 13th, 2016)Every year of Matter’s history has ushered in landmark achievements, but 2016 has had more firsts than most. As the entrepreneurs of our

On being bicoastal.

Entrepreneurship

On being bicoastal.

Expanding from San Francisco to New York City has always been on Matter’s roadmap. Ever since our first class in 2012, Matter One, we’ve held Demo Days on both coasts, seeking to unite the capital of innovation with the capital of media. In February of this year we

Our first European partner.

Our first European partner.

Tamedia’s headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland.Matter is excited to announce that Switzerland’s largest private domestic media group, Tamedia, is joining as our eleventh partner — the first based in Europe. This is a huge opportunity for us to scale our impact on the European continent by collaborating with a

“We ended up launching Vox in 9 weeks.”

“We ended up launching Vox in 9 weeks.”

“I’m so proud of Vox.com [http://vox.com],” says Melissa Bell, welling up slightly. “They’re just so talented and they’re doing such incredible work and it’s so different from what we pictured it to be in so many different ways.” Bell helped co-found the news

Build Matter NYC + SF with us.

Build Matter NYC + SF with us.

Update: Thanks for your interest! These roles have now been filled. In the last six months we have expanded Matter [http://matter.vc/] from SF to NYC and we are on the verge of completing our first ever bicoastal accelerator program. Now, we are growing our Program and Investments team

“For some reason it’s kind of a ‘bad thing’ to just write kick ass articles.”

“For some reason it’s kind of a ‘bad thing’ to just write kick ass articles.”

Some said it was too expensive. Others said it would never scale. But Jessica Lessin ignored the naysayers and stuck to her convictions. Almost three years ago, the former Wall Street Journal tech reporter founded The Information [https://www.theinformation.com/], an in-depth, online-only publication that combines rigorous investigative journalism

A couple of pivots, lots of pitches, and a party.

Entrepreneurship

A couple of pivots, lots of pitches, and a party.

We’re more than halfway through our 20-week program in San Francisco and New York City. Our teams have survived an intense design thinking bootcamp and three design reviews. They’ve heard 7 inspiring speakers. They’ve participated in workshops and shareouts. They’ve learned how to analyze top-down trends,

“Getting to product/market fit AND being differentiated — that’s what’s hard.”

“Getting to product/market fit AND being differentiated — that’s what’s hard.”

The term “growth hacker” first gained momentum in 2013. Back then, it might have seemed like a fad [https://medium.com/@joshelman/what-is-growth-hacking-really-f445b04cbd20]; now it’s ubiquitous in Silicon Valley. But what does it really mean to “hack” growth — and can you do it sustainably? Andrew Chen, a member of

“If a million people saw this story, would it make the world a better place?”

“If a million people saw this story, would it make the world a better place?”

In February, 2011, 19 year-old University of Iowa student, Zach Wahls, spoke before a Iowa House of Representatives public forum to oppose an anti-marriage-equality measure. Later that year, an intern at MoveOn [http://moveon.org], a progressive advocacy organization, suggested sharing the video of his speech on its site. One

“Relentlessness is my middle name.”

“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’

How to be an effective CTO

How to be an effective CTO

> A CTO’s job combines Culture, Technology, and Operations. A CTO’s job combines Culture, Technology, and Operations. Each of the three is necessary; a field of knowledge, experimentation, and learning in itself; and interdependent with the other two. To be successful as a CTO, you need to work

“I said, listen, I will recite the Jets’ season record from the last 5 years.”

“I said, listen, I will recite the Jets’ season record from the last 5 years.”

Top highlight The first thing that strikes you about Dheerja Kaur is her energy. She’s like a highly focused tornado that can spin an audience into a state of excited attention within moments of starting to speak. We were thrilled when Kaur agreed to join our New York-based class

If you want exponential growth, forget linear thinking.

Entrepreneurship

If you want exponential growth, forget linear thinking.

Top highlight We repeat it every day here at Matter: the success of any media startup depends on its ability to match top-down trends with a bottom-up user point of view. That formula — easier to say than to achieve — has burnt millions of entrepreneurial neurons throughout history. But digital technology

What does it really mean to be an entrepreneur?

Entrepreneurship

What does it really mean to be an entrepreneur?

The entrepreneurs of Matter Six explain (creatively!) what entrepreneurship is all about“I want to be an entrepreneur.” I hear these words constantly on my college campus. And I can’t help but cringe each time. Over the past decade, entrepreneurship has become the “new hot thing.” As a social

Listen up! Hearken’s got something to say

Listen up! Hearken’s got something to say

SO MUCH GOOD STUFF that I almost don’t know where to start. Good thing, then, that we’re going to hear all about it from chief awesome lady boss herself, Jennifer Brandel. Jenn and co-founder Corey Haines went through our program more than a year ago, as part of

“Our product is to surprise you.”

“Our product is to surprise you.”

Top highlight For our first time hosting a guest speaker in our New York City [https://news.matter.vc/matter-has-launched-in-nyc] location, we had a clear vision: to bring in inspiring entrepreneurs from a mission-driven, venture-backed NYC media startup. Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber, co-founders of Gimlet Media [https://gimletmedia.com/

Matter’s Lucky 13

Entrepreneurship

Matter’s Lucky 13

[Update: the final number of teams to complete our program was 12, after This. sadly closed down at the end of July, 2016.] Who says 13 isn’t a lucky number? At 10 a.m. on June 13th, the 13 teams in our sixth class met each other for the

Common: Why We’re Creating a World Without Language Barriers

Common: Why We’re Creating a World Without Language Barriers

My dad and I, on our first father-son bonding trip through China.For my entire life, I’ve had trouble talking to my dad. He only speaks Chinese, and I’m slightly embarrassed to admit that I only have a 7-year-old’s understanding of the language. It sucks. It really

Scout: Exploring the Social Implications of Technology

Scout: Exploring the Social Implications of Technology

It took me 28 years to realize the power of science-fiction. I’d worked with my family for 15 of those running Future in Review, a $6,000 a head conference that brings together C-level executives, world-class scientists, economists, filmmakers, and, yes, science-fiction authors, to talk about where technology is

Is teaching girls jewelry design to get them excited about 3D printing sexist or smart?

Is teaching girls jewelry design to get them excited about 3D printing sexist or smart?

Top highlight KiraKira Process: Inspiration to Sketch to 3D print.As a senior in college, I wrote my thesis on the artwork of Kara Walker [http://sikkemajenkinsco.com/index.php?v=artist&artist=4eece69f3eb4e]. Her silhouettes paint pictures of our own psyches. Intricate black and white outlines are initially

Stories as multi-dimensional as our world

Stories as multi-dimensional as our world

Discors co-founders, Basil Enan and Akber MalikAkber and I first met in 1993. I was 12, he was 2. There was not an instant connection. After that our lives continued separately but largely in parallel. We both grew up in the Bay Area and had many of the same teachers

Redefining Wedding Planning with Menagerie

Wedding Planning

Redefining Wedding Planning with Menagerie

Today’s couples are planning their own weddings. But in a world without the wedding planner and the success of their wedding contingent upon hiring the right vendors, they are spending more than 150 hours searching and emailing vendors for quotes, organizing their research in spreadsheets, and managing their wedding