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- Valuing Gumroad Equity, a deep dive Aug 11, 2024 - I announced recently that my early stage investing firm, Calm Company Fund, was taking a break and pausing our investing. The short version of that story is that while the thesis of investing in calm companies—businesses run by lean teams that grow at a sustainable profitable pace—is still very strong, the business model of raising... Continue reading →
- Everything I knew about stretching was wrong Feb 4, 2024 - In the past 12 months my body’s mobility and flexibility went from abysmal, a source of persistent pain impacting my quality of life, to pretty darn good. I’m not about to become a stretching influencer, but after a year of researching, trial and error, and hard work I feel back on track and like I... Continue reading →
- Cooking For Founders Jan 10, 2021 - With COVID-19 forcing many of us indoors and cooking more (yes, this post took a little longer to go live than I planned), there’s never been a better time to really learn how to cook. I grew up not learning much about how to cook and taught myself as an adult. Over the last 5-7... Continue reading →
- 2021 SaaS Market Predictions Jan 7, 2021 - I’m an investor now so I suppose I need to start making predictions 🙂 These are not so much predictions as, things already in progress that I feel I’m able to see a little bit earlier than most folks by looking at 1,000s of early stage bootstrapper-minded software companies. So here we go: Everything is... Continue reading →
- On Indexing the Early-Stage Market of Funding for Bootstrappers Aug 7, 2020 - Lately several people have asked me, is “Earnest Capital trying to index early-stage software companies?” The answer is “no, not really” but there is an interesting discussion to be had around the idea of indexing so it’s worth unpacking. AngelList Data shows that “indexing” early-stage (pre-seed/seed) investing produces superior returns than picking deals. One reason... Continue reading →
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