Hunter Walk
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Hunter Walk's blog focusses mainly on how to create a start-up, get the ball rolling and guarantee success in your chosen field. He was also previously a product manager at Google. His blogs offers conversations with other leaders in the product management world as well as his own frank take on the issues facing product management in the current market.
Hunter Walk
3d ago
Read while recovering from St Patrick’s celebrations The Anti-Social Century [Derek Thompson/The Atlantic] – Is isolation a leading or lagging indication of breakdowns in community, political polarization, declining birthrates and other 21st century American challenges? Men who watch television now spend seven hours in front of the TV for every hour they spend hanging out ..read more
Hunter Walk
3d ago
“Be great at the job and proud of how you’re doing it.” That was our rallying cry at the beginning of Homebrew. We figured that if we enjoyed it, but weren’t financially successful, we couldn’t do it for the rest of our careers. And if we made money, but weren’t happy with the work, we ..read more
Hunter Walk
1w ago
I’m a believer in the ‘software eats the world‘ thesis, although I often change it to ‘software enables the world,’ which is not nearly as evocative but also not as consumptive. One byproduct of this movement, especially during the blitzscaling era, were new startups in areas such as finance, healthcare, housing, education, using venture capital ..read more
Hunter Walk
2w ago
Screendoor has now looked at more than 1,500 venture firms raising funds, backing roughly 1.5% of them, often as their first or second largest investor. When I’m scanning a pitch deck I’m basically looking to put it into one of two buckets – Traditional or Different. “Traditional But Better” means they are basically running a ..read more
Hunter Walk
3w ago
First, a piece of literary history. The phrase needle in a haystack is commonly credited to the book Don Quixote from the early 1600s (“needle is a bottle of hay”) but there’s also a Fujian proverb “To dive into the sea, to feel for a needle” that is thought to be even older and gets ..read more
Hunter Walk
1M ago
Sometimes I write a post just to be able to send the URL to people when they ask me a specific question. This one is “what advice do you have for someone who is a new VC analyst or wants to join a firm at that level?” If you’re joining a venture capital firm as ..read more
Hunter Walk
1M ago
Homebrew makes investments by consensus – it works because there’s just two of us. We’ve done it this way for two reasons – first, it works internally given our style of decision-making and respectful but loud debate. Second, it matters to us externally that founders know it’s always Homebrew making the investment – never a ..read more
Hunter Walk
1M ago
Podcasts are typically escapism for me, which is why I don’t listen to very many about tech or venture capital. Except The Learning Corner from Precursor, because I love Charles Hudson. A few months back they were discussing Solo GPs and some ways their processes differ from larger partnerships. Prompted by a blog post from ..read more
Hunter Walk
1M ago
Valentine’s Day. Perfect time to curl up with a good URL. How to Plan An Annual Family Summit [Bethany Crystal/Hard Mode First] – Bethany and I were grabbing wine one evening in NYC over the December holidays when she mentioned this was underway (Family Summit 2024). Before I could even complete the sentence “And are ..read more
Hunter Walk
1M ago
I’ve changed my mind about something. It stings when someone I know starts a company and doesn’t tell me about the financing. Either to consider participating (since it’s my job) or at the very least to say, hey, FYI, I wanted to let you know before you heard elsewhere but I founded a new thing ..read more