Hunter Walker

JANUARY 11, 2015

2014 was a great year for Homebrew (or at least I *think* it was – check back in 10 years and I’ll tell you definitively). Bunch of new companies (currently 17 core investments) and five of our earlier startups raised additional financing. Blake asked for a follow-up to my post on the two deals we lost in 2013.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I told my friend that I felt that in 2014 too many new VCs feel the pressure to chase deals, to be a part of syndicates with other brand names and to pounce on top of every startup whose numbers are trending up quickly. It’s hard enough being an investor in the roller-coaster life that is startups. I don’t.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

In 2012 I penned an article called “ It’s Morning in VC ” that highlighted many of these trends and in 2014 I published a series of data in this VC SlideShare presentation of “ Why VC is Much More Compelling ” now, which updated many of our earlier analysis. Here is the Wikipedia definition of a bubble.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

If you are a 20-something tech entrepreneur you could be forgiven for thinking that seed-stage investors, Angellist Syndicates and widely available angel money always existed. I was out to raise my first seed money in my second startup of $500,000. Neither did Y Combinator, 500 Startups, TechStars, Amplify, Mucker and countless others.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Regardless of its sources, this kind of growth is great news for the entire online video ecosystem, including owners, publishers, advertisers and video related startups. In 2014 and beyond, inner-video advertising should be about branded content (as AOL is doing with “ BeOn “). A revolution! The future.

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 2, 2015

Techcrunch reported yesterday that London startups raised $647m in Q1 this year, passing $500m in a quarter for the first time and up 67% from $411 in Q4 2014, which was itself a record. The $647m invested in London startups in Q1 was just 13% of the $5.05bn invested in Valley startups (of which San Francisco was $2.13bn).

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VC Adventure

MARCH 17, 2016

I’ve talked about this trend before – specifically the acceleration of angel investing in 2011-2014. I’ve always felt that a robust angel financing market was important to startup ecosystems and the data on the next two charts really brings that home. Specifically: Put Entrepreneurs First.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 3, 2017

What’s the number one city for startups in the United States? Is it Silicon Valley, home to accelerators Y Combinator and 500 Startups and to tech giants Google and Facebook? As of now, the City of Austin’s startup density is greater than that of the Silicon Valley!

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 20, 2015

Today, Pillow announced their seed financing which we led in 2014 along with a great syndicate including our friends at Sherpa Ventures and Homebrew advisor Lee Linden. He thinks Pillow can help increase Airbnb listings by handling all the hassles for hosts.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

It is often available for subscription, so that new episodes are automatically downloaded via web syndication to the user’s own local computer, mobile application, or portable media player. Founded in 2014 and based in Brooklyn, it has already produced some of my favourite podcasts: StartUp?—?Gimlet’s itunes.apple.com.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

So when Microsoft released the most "full-featured word processor ever for the Mac" that crawled on their Macs -- we're talking literally two minutes to startup-- the community immediately started posting in newsgroups that Microsoft was actually trying to "kill the Mac.". The title is not important; the work they do is.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 8, 2014

We don’t invest in “syndicates A rounds” as our first point of entry into a company. Syndicates: We have a bias to lead rounds. We also have a pretty broad range of syndicates that we are a part of. It’s a bigger space, with nicer amenities while still retaining the startup feel.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 21, 2014

” Now that we’re 18 months in to our first Homebrew fund, and 2014 is coming to an end, thought it could be interesting to share three places we used the pencil eraser thus far. This would make room for a meaningful number of other investors in the syndicate but also the concentration we needed. No more, no less.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

It is often available for subscription, so that new episodes are automatically downloaded via web syndication to the user’s own local computer, mobile application, or portable media player. StartUp Podcast by Gimlet Media on Apple Podcasts. StartUp Podcast by Gimlet Media on Apple Podcasts. The third wave of podcasting.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Individual angels can lend their credibility to an investment through an Angelist syndicate, even if they are only investing a pretty small amount of capital themselves. Most were the same threats that existed when we started NextView, just the 2014/2015 version. So, these are the existential threats to my business.

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