This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 18, 2024

You know what our incentives are and we care enough about our reputation within the ecosystem to not do anything too terrible—usually. This is a business and the goal should be to get the best people at every position, regardless of their position on the cap table.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 11, 2023

He’s founder and CEO of Greenhouse , a ‘hiring operating system’ for companies which spans recruiting and onboarding tools for enterprises and SMEs. They help with issues of scale and growth, with operational questions, and even with things like purchasing and cash management. And they bring great resources to bear.

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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Be more helpful than the folks on cap tables today who overpromise and underdeliver — every cap table I’m on has some percentage of allocation that provided zero value after the investment. If you can be more valuable than that, I’d love to bring you on to the cap table of the next seed round we lead.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 14, 2019

Then he tells you he likes being an investor but *really* misses being an operator, and is joining another one of his other portfolio companies as COO. Former operators return to operating; GPs trading up (or being managed out); wealth-effect retirements; whole firms dramatically changing strategy. Such as Homebrew.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

I’ve met several people from Cooley Godward who have stellar reputations in this category. I always try operate on the “Fixed Fee +&# arrangement. They have a stellar reputation and know how to work with the earliest of starts with entrepreneurs. I already mentioned DLA Piper.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 14, 2018

But Homebrew is founded upon the belief that we’ll put sweat and reputation behind your startup, not just a wire transfer, so to me it seems like a normal question to help understand if you need things that we can, or can’t, provide. The answers I receive typically fall across four categories: 1.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Founder hostile” VCs are problematic because they push for the perspective of institutional investors to override those of all the other constituents on the cap table. The proper balance is, of course, in the middle; where the VCs with the best reputations operate.

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