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earnestcapital.com
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earnestcapital.com is the company blog at earnestcapital.com, writing about startups and business. Since 2018, 23 different Hacker News readers have linked it 52 times, most often “Investment Memo: Earnest Fund 2 [Draft]”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (18) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Earnest Capital as an investor for bootstrapped and non-VC founders, often as an alternative to traditional VC funding. Most comments name it in lists of such funds.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 18 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2019-05-29
- Investment Memo: Earnest Fund 2 [Draft]6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-01-03
- Shared Earnings Agreement5 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2018-11-30
- /3 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2019-06-07
- Request for Startups: Remote tools for remote teams3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-02-01
- /about/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-09-27
What Hacker News says?
I'm working on FormAPI [1], which helps developers fill out PDF documents. I started working on this around 2 years ago. I was mostly working on it part-time, and I took a few breaks while I was doing freelance work to pay the bills. This year I raised some money from Earnest Capital [2], which has allowed me to go full-time and hire some contractors. I used to think that I wanted to build a one-person company and s…
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on “Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?”Submitted Earnest Capital is live as a story · 368 points
HN discussionThankfully lifestyle-business focused "VCs" are a thing: https://tinyseed.com , https://earnestcapital.com , https://indie.vc
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on “I sold Baremetrics”Submitted Earnest Capital Trailhead as a story · 162 points
HN discussionYes, VC returns are dominated by the huge hits, so everyone is chasing those. Google almost certainly returned more than every other investment made that year for example. For a tens of millions pitch go to Earnest Capital who will be perfectly happy to invest. https://earnestcapital.com/
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on “How to Kill a Startup Idea with Google Keyword Planner and AdWords: A Case Study”Submitted Request for Feedback: an “opportunity fund” for underrepresented founders as a story · 9 points
HN discussionIsn’t this essentially a different way of doing what Earnest Capital is already doing? https://earnestcapital.com/
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on “Debt is coming to the tech industry”Submitted Request for Startups: Remote tools for remote teams as a story · 5 points
HN discussionIf you find these critiques of VC are resonating but also feel like a bit of capital, a mentorship group, and shared resources would help you build a sustainable profitable business, then I'd love any questions or comments on our Shared Earnings Agreement structure: https://earnestcapital.com/shared-earnings-agreement/
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on “Startups Rejecting Venture Capital”Submitted Funding for Bootstrappers 2: What we learned as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt's not set at 9.5%. Not sure where that number is coming from. Check out https://earnestcapital.com/shared-earnings-agreement-digging...
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on “Earnest Capital is live”Submitted Shared Earnings Agreement as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHiding? https://earnestcapital.com/shared-earnings-agreement-digging...
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on “Earnest Capital is live”Submitted Earnest Capital Invests in Cachix as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe residual stake is a factor of the investment amount, the Valuation Cap (negotiated at time of investment) and the terms of a sale. Note by "stake" we just mean an option to participate in a sale. You can run the business profitably forever without paying us a penny. There is a screencast here going over every term and a spreadsheet anybody can use to run the numbers. Not hiding anything :) https://earnestcapital…
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on “Earnest Capital is live”Submitted Investment Memo: Earnest Fund 2 [Draft] as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://earnestcapital.com/contact/
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on “Earnest Capital is live”Submitted Our new head of platform and newest portfolio company as a story · 2 points
HN discussionGood question! Small team for now. Me: https://twitter.com/tylertringas Head of Platform: https://twitter.com/bentossell Amazing group of mentors: https://earnestcapital.com/earnest-mentorship/
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on “Earnest Capital is live”Submitted Request for Startups: Remote tools for remote teams as a story · 2 points
HN discussionUh huh. https://earnestcapital.com/request-for-startups-1-remote/
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on “Earnest Capital is live”Submitted Earnest Capital Shared Earnings Agreement: Digging into the Numbers as a story · 2 points
HN discussion$3m?! No. This post walks through each of the terms in detail: https://earnestcapital.com/shared-earnings-agreement-digging... We have a Return Cap which is negotiated on a per deal basis but we guide toward 3-5x the initial investment.
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on “Earnest Capital is live”Submitted Investment Memo: Earnest Fund 2 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYes, by default we don't take equity (shares, board seat, none of that). If you decide to raise a round of equity financing (ie VC) we could convert into equity alongside them and if you sell the company we get a % of that. There's a spreadsheet here that lays it out: https://earnestcapital.com/shared-earnings-agreement-digging...
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on “Earnest Capital is live”Submitted Investment Memo: Earnest Fund 2 – Earnest Capital as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThank you! Yep, check https://earnestcapital.com/faq/ and let me know if anything needs to be added?
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on “Earnest Capital is live”Submitted Investment Memo: Earnest Fund 2 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionLots of reasons, although as i said in my post, unless it's a "strategic acquisition" at a huge multiple, it's usually not because "the math" of selling makes more sense than holding it. In my case, having the liquid capital from the sale allowed me to start a fund to invest in more companies like this ( https://earnestcapital.com/ ). Something I probably couldn't have done while operating my SaaS and just out of th…
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on “Selling My Bootstrapped SaaS Business (2017)”Submitted Shared Earnings Agreement as a story · 1 points
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