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Entrepreneurs: Stop coding for a minute. Design folks: Stop running down intuition.

Entrepreneurs: Stop coding for a minute. Design folks: Stop running down intuition.

For early-stage startups, technical feats are the least important evidence of their potential.

It’s time to flare.

It’s time to flare.

I’m proud of the impact we’ve made at Matter, the team we’ve built, and the people that we have transformed. But now it’s time for me to explore.

Matter 08 Demo Day (San Francisco)

Matter 08 Demo Day (San Francisco)

Videos from Matter 08 Demo Day in San Francisco.

Applying to Matter Nine? Here’s how we evaluate our accelerator investments.

Entrepreneurship

Applying to Matter Nine? Here’s how we evaluate our accelerator investments.

Applications are open for Matter Nine [https://medium.com/@benwerd/49e00e246d20] . In conjunction with our launch we wanted to demystify the process we use to evaluate companies. At Matter we look at five critical elements when making the decision about whether to invest in a startup: team, media, stage, mission

Meet Matter Eight

Meet Matter Eight

When Matter was founded in 2012, the media industry was struggling in the face of huge changes in revenue models, technology, and audiences. The internet created a completely new playing field — one that allowed more voices to be heard, but also for a select few to make the rules. While

Maximizing the Matter Experience

Entrepreneurship

Maximizing the Matter Experience

Top highlight Twenty weeks go by in a blink. At Matter, our program can seem impossibly long when we begin with our bootcamp, and just as it gets hard to imagine what the end will be like, you lift your head and realize Demo Day is in just two weeks.

Join Matter Eight

Join Matter Eight

Top highlight Media is the bedrock of democracy. It’s the way we learn about the world. It connects us. It empowers us to make stronger decisions by arming us with information. The stories we hear through the media define how we relate to the people we share our society

Applying to Matter? Here’s how we think about our accelerator investments.

Applying to Matter? Here’s how we think about our accelerator investments.

Applications are open for Matter Eight [https://matter.vc/join-matter-eight]. In conjunction with our launch we wanted to demystify the process we use to evaluate companies. At Matter we look at five critical elements when making the decision about whether to invest in a startup: media, stage, mission alignment, team,

Breaking Beyond the World of Ideas

Breaking Beyond the World of Ideas

When charged with the task of writing my final column for The Daily Tar Heel in April, I thought about what I could say that my fellow Tar Heels would actually want to read. I thought about abstracting from the world we live in to talk about the big ideas

Meet Matter Seven

Meet Matter Seven

Top highlight This year is different. When Matter. [https://medium.com/u/5d32fb15ef39?source=post_page-----d07f02683108--------------------------------] launched in 2012, we were inspired by Clay Shirky [https://medium.com/u/dd09b2ab4ae2?source=post_page-----d07f02683108--------------------------------] ’s words on the rapidly-changing newspaper market [http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/]: “now is

Join Matter. as a Program Coordinator — Help change media for good!

Join Matter. as a Program Coordinator — Help change media for good!

Matter Ventures is about to open our garage door to our seventh accelerator class. You have an opportunity to join them on this journey.

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

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

We are ready.

With four new hires, the Matter team is ready to deepen our impact right when it is needed most.

Matter has launched in NYC!

Matter has launched in NYC!

The New York Times joins Matter, Google News Lab supports our space, and we welcome 12 new media startups into our community.

Don’t set goals — prototype them

Don’t set goals — prototype them

During the Matter accelerator program [http://matter.vc/program], the goal all our entrepreneurs work toward is the same: Demo Day. The path to get there varies team to team, but the core is common: at the end of the 20 week sprint, they will present the culmination of their

Matter SF ∞ NYC

Matter SF ∞ NYC

We’re expanding Matter to NYC…and bringing SF with us.

Build Matter NYC with us.

Build Matter NYC with us.

We pulled it off in record time. In just 13 weeks, Matter [http://matter.vc/] expanded to New York City, built out a new space on Union Square, and launched our first bi-coastal accelerator class on June 13. We selected 6 NYC-based startups and 6 SF-based startups for our intense

Get ready for Matter’s 100 Days of Summer.

Get ready for Matter’s 100 Days of Summer.

With a bigger Matter team and simpler application process, the dates are now set for the next Matter class. Are you in?

Here’s what we look for.

Here’s what we look for.

The four key criteria any Matter applicants must meet.

When 2 become 6.

When 2 become 6.

Top highlight It’s a well-kept secret that, until very recently, Matter has been the work of just two full-time individuals, punching well above their weight. For most of last year, Corey and Lara were running so fast and relentlessly that they didn’t even have time to interview candidates

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. 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

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. 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