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Raising money, or not as an indie founder. Hostifi's story from $2.3k to $53K MRR.

by Rosie Sherry

Should you raise money? - Reilly Chase, Earnest Capital founder | Earnest Capital

Reilly Chase’s company HostiFi was the first company we ever invested in from Earnest Capital Fund 1 and he was recently kind enough to make a short video answering the most common questions he gets from founders on whether or not they should raise money from Earnest Capital anybody else. Reilly’s business has done super […]

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    earnest has been around for a good deal of time... we used them to help underwrite costs for students learning software programming.

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    @csallen said a while back, indie doesn't mean boostrapped.

    I'm pretty sure we'll keep hearing more success stories of indie founders finding success, either with increasing revenue or by being acquired with the support of funding through the likes of Earnest Capital.

    I've certainly been re-thinking what a good indie journey looks like and from my perspective I think there are so many potential paths we could head down. There should be no shame in getting funding, or 'being acquired'.

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      I agree. I think there are some businesses where it's hard to grow after a certain point without being acquired or funded. It's just how some sectors work.

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