Breakfast with Matt Cutler, co-founder of Visible Measures

We had breakfast with Matt Cutler, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Visible Measures, at the offices of General Catalyst Partners. Visible Measures provides web video analytics; it was founded in 2005 by MIT students and has received ~$18M in VC financing to date. Neil Sequeira and David Fialkow (both serial entrepreneurs and partners at General Catalyst) also attended the breakfast.

We discussed different topics about entrepreneurship:

• Focus on communication: People do not buy things that they do not understand. Be able to synthesize and explain your idea.
• Very quickly ask for help (and be humble)
• Get mentorship early in your careers: Look for great people in your life to model something after
• Persistance: get used to be rejected
• You need to believe in your idea because you have to convince a lot of people: talent, investors and customers