This is a post about how to become an investor—someone with the authority to write checks— at Earnest Capital. We like to build in public, so there are unfinished parts of this roadmap. I’m hoping smart folks will weigh in and help us figure them out. The on-ramps to investing (or lack thereof) There are […]
Meeting a founder with deep consulting experience that they are now pouring into a productized version is, well… the best. Quinn Zeda built a world-class conversion rate optimization / UX consultancy at Zeda Labs helping clients generate millions in additional revenue. But she consistently found that one of the core tools in the toolkit, user […]
One of the best parts of early stage investing is getting to dive deep into industries that you previously didn’t even know existed. So it was a delight to meet Duncan and Joe, the founders of FixturFab, and go down the rabbit hole into the world of PCBA test fixture design and fabrication. As the […]
We love backing niche, focused SaaS businesses and founders crafting them. The best user experience (UX) teams have to take an incredibly multi-disciplinary approach to their work, gathering data and feedback across every platform and touch point of a product. For most UX researchers and teams, this means a jumbled mess of data across dozens […]
A basic belief from Day One at Earnest is that remote work, or at least the option, is the future of virtually all creative/knowledge work and that every industry will need custom remote collaboration tools to be able to do their best work from anywhere whether across the country or in the next room. So […]
One thing COVID-19 has made abundantly clear is that in-home healthcare and nursing is an essential part of our society. When a workforce is inherently distributed at the customer/patient’s home, usable mobile-friendly software is essential for managing a workforce and ensuring excellent patient care, but many of these firms are still operating on outdated software […]
Newsletter Overload. Reddit Rabbit Holes. Doomscrolling. The internet has never had more ways to suck up all your time and attention and we need to take back control over our information feeds. Mailbrew lets you take control and curate all your favorite feeds—from Twitter accounts, to subreddits, ProductHunt, RSS, YouTube channels, and more—into one aggregated […]
One of the main things we do at Earnest is invest in founders building software for niches: parts of the economy that seem too small, to the casual observer or Venture Capitalist, to justify building a company around and raising money for. We love these opportunities and believe, as we enter the Deployment Age of […]
From day one Earnest has been fortunate enough to get a firehose of inbound interest from entrepreneurs. I’ve done my best, but frankly, I haven’t been great at managing that dealflow, moving things along efficiently, and ensuring we respond to all inbound in a timely fashion. It’s time for us to up our game here […]
Earnest is introducing a plan to share at least 20% of carry (profits) with our team, early investors (LPs), and other stakeholders who help us succeed. This is Earnest so we’re doing it differently and we’re going to tell you how and why we’re doing it that way. I’d also love thoughts and suggestions for […]
