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Meet Pete!

“No one is more important than the team, no coach is more important than the team. The team, the team, the team!” — Bo Schembechler, slightly paraphrased. In many ways, joining Matter will be a convergence of all my past experiences and interests. As an English and Journalism double major at

Once upon a time.

Once upon a time.

Storyteller is the coolest job title I’ve ever held. It means I officially tell stories for a living, and that’s a great privilege. Stories are why I became a journalist more than 7 years ago, inspired by the BBC World Service, Kate Adie, and the adventures of Lois

Sprinting for the finish line.

Sprinting for the finish line.

Top highlight Much like life, entrepreneurship has often been described as “a marathon, not a sprint [http://www.forbes.com/sites/kylewong/2014/11/12/startups-are-a-marathon-not-a-sprint-run-at-your-own-pace/] .” But no one said a marathon can’t be made up of sprints — those short, sharp bursts of energy that bring you closer to

Taking stock, and a look ahead.

Taking stock, and a look ahead.

It’s the end of a jam-packed year at Matter, a year that will see twelve companies complete two twenty-week accelerator programs back-to-back. That pace is pretty mind-boggling to me, Matter’s greenhorn storyteller, newly onboarded. Since I joined ten days ago, I’ve learned a stack about what this

Design Thinking

Meet Liz!

Matter is an immersive community. From the moment I walked in the door two weeks ago, I quickly learned this is a space that enables its culture to thrive. Entrepreneurs really do eat the jelly beans in our kitchen to fuel “flaring” brainstorm sessions. The post-its on the whiteboards are

Change is getting Louder

Change is getting Louder

Top highlight Louder launched nearly five years ago, as LoudSauce, with an audacious vision: to build a world in which regular citizens have the power to choose which voices and stories are promoted. Today, I am thrilled to announce that Louder has been acquired by Change.org. We’re excited

What We’ve Learned In a Month (and a Year)

What We’ve Learned In a Month (and a Year)

Plus, an Announcement about Beta Testing! One year ago today, we were just embarking on this adventure, laying the groundwork for what would become Verbatm. The concept was murky and the company was months away from being established, but a general semblance of goals and structure was emerging. We worked

Meet Matter’s First Associate

Meet Matter’s First Associate

Today I am proud to announce that Lara Ortiz-Luis has been promoted to Associate at Matter.

Join our team. Create creative space.

Join our team. Create creative space.

One definition of an entrepreneur is that an entrepreneur acts on opportunity without regard to resources they currently control. Well, I have an opportunity for you to act on — We are hiring [http://matter.vc/jobs/] at Matter [http://matter.vc/]. We are looking for an Office Manager to join

Join our team. Invest in innovators.

Join our team. Invest in innovators.

We are looking for an Associate to join our team and help us expand our efforts to source, select, and support entrepreneurs building the future of media through our start-up accelerator and seed fund.

Join our team. Tell our story.

Join our team. Tell our story.

One definition of an entrepreneur is that an entrepreneur acts on opportunity without regard to resources they currently control. Well, I have an opportunity for you to act on — We are hiring [http://matter.vc/jobs/] at Matter [http://matter.vc/]. We are looking for a Storyteller to join our

Why We Moved our Company from SF to NYC

Why We Moved our Company from SF to NYC

Stringr [http://www.stringr.com] was founded in San Francisco. The founding team met while gazing at a gleaming view of the Bay Bridge at Wharton|SF [http://sf.wharton.upenn.edu/] on the Embarcadero. I own a condo in Russian Hill. One of my co-founders, Lindsay Stewart, was raised

Millennial Matter Five

Millennial Matter Five

Last week, we opened our garage door for the fifth time to welcome in six new companies and fifteen new entrepreneurs into our space to kick off the program with a weeklong design-thinking bootcamp. Over the next five months, they will be embarking on the rest of their Matter journey,

Motherly: Why we’re passionate about empowering Millennial moms

Motherly: Why we’re passionate about empowering Millennial moms

This is one of the first pictures of my son Henry. I love looking at this picture of his puffy little cheeks, and seeing him all wrapped up like a cocoon in his tiny hospital blanket on his first day on earth. He’s three now and full of demands

Verbatm, Word for Word

Verbatm, Word for Word

The Verbatm Team: Aishwarya Vardhana, Iain Usiri, Sierra Kaplan-Nelson, and Alex RawitzIt started with two friends chatting over dinner. Where it ends, though currently unknown, promises to be a bit more dramatic. In the early months of 2014, with a tumultuous year of global protests that would come to define

Data. (re)Imagined.

Data Visualization

Data. (re)Imagined.

> “The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.” — John Tukey In 1854 London, in early September, a cholera epidemic was in full swing. Hundreds had died within the week, but no one could find the source or understand

Your friends aren’t hanging out on news sites — why would you?

Your friends aren’t hanging out on news sites — why would you?

Ceci Mourkogiannis [https://www.linkedin.com/pub/ceci-mourkogiannis/12/a79/a71] is a co-founder of Papero: an interactive social layer that lives on the surface of existing media content, designed for younger millennials and older members of Generation Z who expect digital media to be interactive and social at its

Thank You For the Music

Thank You For the Music

Our fight to help the independent musician make money from their music. > It all started with a simple idea: “What if I could send money directly to any musician in the world with the tap of a button?” I was listening to an incredible Tiny Anthem [https://soundcloud.com/

Finding the Chinese Millennial

Finding the Chinese Millennial

How are we — an energy attorney and an editor-in-chief of a number of Chinese publications — supposed to bridge the gap between the two greatest superpowers in the world? Jenny Bai (left); Rebecca Eydeland (right)By leveraging the convergence of several major events. And taking advantage of very good timing. At

Our first tech partner.

Our first tech partner.

Today, I’m excited to announce our first technology partner — Google.

We Want You

Matter is looking for some smart, scrappy teammates to help us tell our stories and scale our impact better. Over the past six months Matter has added four new media partners [https://news.matter.vc/expanding-the-impact-of-matter] and launched six more startups [https://news.matter.vc/the-six-that-matter-4b77c3d073e5?recommendNoteId=b5f9804c52b7]. Now, our

Matter Four Reflects on Their Journey to Demo Day

Matter Four Reflects on Their Journey to Demo Day

Time at Matter goes quickly. We’re not kidding when we call it a sprint. (What seems like) not too long ago, we announced the fourth class of Matter entrepreneurs and companies, and dove deep into their missions and stories [https://news.matter.vc/the-six-that-matter]. But it’s already been

Our first seed investments.

Our first seed investments.

Today, at Demo Day, I’m excited to reveal our first three non-accelerator seed investments — Parlio, This, and NewsWhip.

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Ryan Singel [https://medium.com/@rsingel?source=post_page-----b13bc57447bc--------------------------------] FollowApr 29, 2015 [https://news.matter.vc/following-the-news-just-got-a-whole-lot-easier-b13bc57447bc?source=post_page-----b13bc57447bc--------------------------------] · 4 min read Following The News Just Got A Whole Lot Easier Following the news that you care about shouldn’t be hard. But we’ve all had that situation

The three questions that should haunt every start-up

The three questions that should haunt every start-up

If you’re an entrepreneur, you’ve heard all about scalability. But there’s how you think about scalability before you meet Max Ventilla. And then there’s how you think about scalability after you meet Max Ventilla.