Venture Generated Content

Most venture firms define success through their growth and generational longevity. We don't. When Hunter and I started Homebrew it was with the idea that we'd always stay small and focused. That meant we'd never grow the partnership beyond the two of us a

About a month ago we announced the addition of Kate to our team. We regularly tell founders that hiring will and should consume the majority of your time, especially when hiring for key roles on the team, and it was no different for us once we published t

I recorded an episode of the Angel podcast with Jason Calcanis that was published a couple of weeks ago. It was a wide-ranging conversation, covering everything from cryptocurrencies to company culture to our portfolio companies. Because the podcast and Y

The beginning of the year is the traditional time for annual performance reviews at most startups (if you don't do them, check out Homebrew's guide to Performance Management at Startups). And sometimes, the outcome of that review process is the decision t

Homebrew was founded on the simple idea that there are many sources of capital at the seed stage, but there are very few seed stage investors who are willing to sign up to be the investors of record. To us, being the investor of record means being account

Once a year we have the VC equivalent of a board meeting, referred to as an Annual Meeting. And last Thursday marked our 4th Annual Meeting since starting Homebrew (Hunter and I have written about the prior ones here and here). It's always one of our favo

We had an incredible day last Thursday as we got together with our LPs, founders and advisors for our 3rd Annual Meeting to review Homebrew's progress over the past year. Hunter already wrote about what we said we know and don't know after three years of

The sky is falling in the venture financing market! Warnings, exhortations and admonitions are being written and spoken everywhere. A market in which capital was abundant is now increasingly constrained. So what's a startup to do? The reality is that you

The founders we meet each month are always passionate, ambitious and determined. And they're always working like mad. But too often, especially as of late, I find that they're making little to no progress despite their endless work. This isn't because the

Money's been flowing. VCs have been investing money at levels not seen since the bubble year of 2000. Entrepreneurs have been raising enormous amounts of money at valuations that assume years of future growth and eventual profitability. So what's the down