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 […]
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 […]
Part of launching any new financing instrument is increasing the number of investors that are comfortable using it for investments. We created the Shared Earnings Agreement (SEAL) because we felt we needed a financing agreement that aligned investors with founders building calm, sustainable, profitable companies. As part of the process of helping more investors understand […]
An interesting aspect of running a fund is that I am both raising money from high net worth individuals and institutional investors and speaking to founders who are raising money from investors like me. One upside of that is I get to learn fundraising best practices from smart founders and then test and deploy them […]
