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 […]
A fund structure built for founders backing founders tl;dr we’re updating how commitments are made to Earnest funds and making them a quarterly subscription product. To get more details subscribe here. But since transparent mega posts are how we do things at Earnest, I want to walk through the thinking as well. Building Earnest has been […]
You’ll sometimes hear me say things like “more founders should think about founder-market fit and whether they really are uniquely suited to build their business” or “founders should try to build an unfair advantage well before they launch their product”… well, ManyRequests, from Robin Vander Heyden and Gabriel Lecointere is a case study in both […]
I’m looking to work with someone in a freelance capacity and I don’t quite know how to describe what we need. The closest I can get is an “information designer” … let me explain. First, we have a very simple minimalist brand/theme that I’m about 86% happy with. Mostly it needs some obvious bits of […]
One of our favorite checks to write at Earnest Capital is the one that lets a founder go full-time on their business by quitting their job or spinning down freelancing. Because we do “funding for bootstrappers” our preference is to be “first check, last check” (or at least for that the be Plan A). That […]
Have you heard of Webflow? It feels like everybody is talking about and using Webflow to build their websites these days. But while the no-code editor for designing sites in Webflow is best in class, the lack of a vibrant ecosystem of plugins, add-ons, and built-in functionality can be an obstacle for many users. Jetboost […]
Recently Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe, tweeted: Can you sympathize? As programming has evolved, managing packages, libraries, and dependencies has become a constant source of wasted time and smashed keyboards for developers everywhere. The problem is compounded when managing multiple development, testing, and production environments and asymptotically complex across a large engineering team. A Gemfile, […]
Yesterday I tweeted: To be clear we have invested in companies that don’t meet all or any of these criteria, and we’ve also not been able to invest in companies that met it perfectly. But I wanted to give founders a wheelhouse of what we’re looking for. But several folks asked the question (I’m summarizing): […]
The world is being rocked by COVID-19 and founders, like all of us, are trying to adjust to the new reality. We hope that you’re being as safe as possible, and staying at home, through these times. While personal health and safety are paramount, all of the founders we work with are also seeing their […]
