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Open Matter Phase I: Complete

Open Matter Phase I: Complete

At CUNY: the first of four class photos.To say this year started with a bang for Matter is an understatement. Just two days into the New Year, I learned that: 1. We were moving ahead with our local news innovation bootcamps with the support of Google News Initiative [https:

Meet the teams of Open Matter Berkeley and Open Matter Georgia!

Meet the teams of Open Matter Berkeley and Open Matter Georgia!

Participants in last month’s Open Matter MizzouAfter a brief interlude for a little thing called Matter Demo Days, we’re back next week with the final two installments of the first Open Matter bootcamp program [https://news.matter.vc/a-lot-more-experiments-open-matter]. They’re happening on opposite coasts on the same

Announcing the Open Matter NYC Teams

Announcing the Open Matter NYC Teams

Less than two months ago, we had the tremendous privilege to announce Open Matter, a series of four design thinking and business model innovation bootcamps at leading journalism schools [https://news.matter.vc/a-lot-more-experiments-open-matter] offered to for-profit news organizations. In partnership with Google News Lab [https://www.blog.google/topics/

What Open Matter will equip you to do.

What Open Matter will equip you to do.

Top highlight This spring, we’re launching Open Matter: Local News Bootcamps, in partnership with Google News Lab, News Media Alliance, and 4 Top J. schools. You can read more about the program and opportunities for local, for-profit news organizations here [https://news.matter.vc/a-lot-more-experiments-open-matter]. The live application is

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S2-E10: Caitlin Kalinowski — Head of Product Design, Oculus VR

The Drunken Walk

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S2-E10: Caitlin Kalinowski — Head of Product Design, Oculus VR

Caitlin Kalinowski [https://medium.com/@kalinowski007] has been a designer at the forefront of cutting-edge technology for over a decade. She got her start at Apple as one of the lead designers on the MacBook Air before she left for Facebook. Now, she is the Head of Product Design at

Matter: Redefining Media Entrepreneurship

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 empathetic, inclusive and informed society. I’ve enjoyed having the chance to work with the team and Matter’s entrepreneurs

Why entrepreneurs love our program.

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Why entrepreneurs love our program.

Shared by Nadya Lev [https://medium.com/u/8acc6f639be4?source=post_page-----5b784852f2bd--------------------------------] , CEO of Aconite [http://Aconite.co], part of Matter Six. Going through Matter was one of the most intense, rewarding experiences of my life. With Matter’s guidance, my co-founder and I were able to take a deeper

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S1-E2: Peter Koechley— Co-founder, Upworthy

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S1-E2: Peter Koechley— Co-founder, Upworthy

We’re excited to have you along for the next episode in our The Drunken Walk [https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-drunken-walk/id1213605129] podcast series. This time our guest is Peter Koechley, the co-founder and co-CEO of Upworthy. You know how that hockey stick curve, up and to the

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S1-E1: Danielle Morrill — CEO, Mattermark

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S1-E1: Danielle Morrill — CEO, Mattermark

Welcome to The Drunken Walk [https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-drunken-walk/id1213605129], a new podcast series exploring the journey of the media entrepreneur! At Matter, we know that success doesn’t happen because of a perfect plan. Hypothesis-testing, action, learnings, and adjustments are all a necessary part of innovation.

Entrepreneurship

Meet Roxann!

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” — Maya Angelou This is one of my favor quotes of Dr. Maya Angelou, because it encompasses a “scientific law” of creativity that can often be misunderstood. Creativity isn’t a limited resource. The more you deeply

Failing fast, getting back to the whiteboard, and starting over

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Failing fast, getting back to the whiteboard, and starting over

Me (left) with my Bootcamp teammates from PRX, The New York Times, and the APThe McClatchy [http://mcclatchy.com] team’s journey with Matter [http://matter.vc] was quite a bit different from the other partners taking part in the 5-month innovation program that mirrors the one Matter offers to

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

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

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

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

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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

The Next Chapter

The Next Chapter

Almost exactly two years ago, my Co-Founders and I joined the first class of companies at Matter in San Francisco, a mission-driven accelerator focused on transforming media and culture. Today, GoPop has been acquired by BuzzFeed. This means I am starting a new job leading product for BuzzFeed’s core