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🎧 The Drunken Walk, S2-E3: Camille Hearst — CEO, Kit

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S2-E3: Camille Hearst — CEO, Kit

Camille Hearst is Co-founder and CEO at Kit [https://kit.com/], a community for helping to find the best products for any new activity or experience you want to have in your life. Before founding Kit, she cut her teeth at Apple on iTunes, and then YouTube and Google. In

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S2-E1: Morgan DeBaun — CEO, Blavity

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S2-E1: Morgan DeBaun — CEO, Blavity

Our guest on this episode is a remarkable entrepreneur: Morgan DeBaun [https://medium.com/u/4996c04e1559?source=post_page-----d9710ddde487--------------------------------] , CEO and co-founder of Blavity [https://blavity.com/]. Together with her co-founders, Morgan figured out how to build a media business that isn’t dependent on a conventional advertising model while

Thank you, Matter.

Entrepreneurship

Thank you, Matter.

Friday, 9.59 am. The workshop starts at 10. The office is empty but for four Matter team members nervously pacing the program area wondering where all our entrepreneurs went. A smattering of sighs, head-shakes and “ughhhh, entrepreneurs” occupy the room, while M83’s Midnight City (probably) plays in the

Why entrepreneurs love our program.

Design Thinking

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-E6: Matt Hartman— Partner, Betaworks

🎧 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 you’re fundraising. That’s why we have Matt Hartman [https://medium.com/u/8fe961141dd3?source=post_page-----61d4fbf2d58e--------------------------------] , Partner at

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S1-E5: Jessica Lessin— Founder, The Information

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S1-E5: Jessica Lessin— Founder, The Information

Our guest on this episode is an incredible example of a journalist turned media entrepreneur: Jessica Lessin [https://medium.com/u/e8174f04826d?source=post_page-----1fdf39c4fe9b--------------------------------] , former Wall Street Journal reporter, now at the helm of the in-depth business/technology subscription publication, The Information. [https://www.theinformation.com/] Before she founded

Rules for Rebelpreneurs

Venture Capital

Rules for Rebelpreneurs

Top highlight Journalists 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 multiple figures in the White House, including the president, have declared the media to be the “Enemy of the

It’s time for media to step up.

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It’s time for media to step up.

Top highlight Matter [http://matter.vc] has always set out to create a more informed, connected, and empowered society. We hope to invest in diverse teams [http://matter.vc/apply], and teams supporting under-represented communities. When more of our communities are involved in building media platforms, and served by our

🎧 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.

In search of human entrepreneurs

In search of human entrepreneurs

Top highlight The myth of the Great Jerk rules over Silicon Valley. Since Steve Jobs ran roughshod over friends, colleagues, and enemies alike, and he was an incredible success, many in the tech world feel it is acceptable and even expected for startup founders to behave in similarly tyrannical fashion.

Want to be a part of Matter Seven? Here’s what we look for.

Want to be a part of Matter Seven? Here’s what we look for.

Top highlight Media 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 on society [https://medium.com/@benwerd/69a035759339] and we are looking for the teams that are up to the

Be part of the solution.

Be part of the solution.

Top highlight This moment matters. Matter [http://matter.vc] has always set out to create a more informed, connected, and empowered society, and that mission has never been more important than today. Media is an integral part of democracy, but it faces unprecedented opposition. Even the core idea of truth

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

Meet Josh!

As I start at Matter, I’m filled with an overwhelming sense of gratitude that I get to be one of the lucky few who can say they derive meaning from (and enjoy) what they do while making a positive impact on society. When I think about why I feel

Meet Ben!

Top highlight I remember when I first walked through the garage door on Bryant St, to see Corey [https://medium.com/u/19bd8f923725?source=post_page-----3293ac936c69--------------------------------] and Lara [https://medium.com/u/1c1a19bf8966?source=post_page-----3293ac936c69--------------------------------] ’s smiling faces, welcoming us in. I remember the friends I immediately made in

“You’re borrowing time now to get more time later.”

“You’re borrowing time now to get more time later.”

Top highlight Danielle 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 a bada** motherf*****. But then it turned out that [referrals] is a terrible business.” She closed down her YC-backed

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

Design Thinking

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

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

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