The blog of Designer Fund, an investor in design-led startups, covering design careers, founders and day-in-the-life profiles at tech companies.
HN commenters mostly point to its homepage as the explanation of the fund, with one joking about the design of a funded company.
I consider myself a generalist, and have really enjoyed working across several domains (primarily design and programming) - it is quite possible to pursue a profitable career while not fitting entirely into the boxes that bosses and hr would like you to fit into. We've just launched a startup over at www.coolplaces.co.uk for which I did the design and programming, but I am not a reliable judge on whether it is excellent or not :) FYI I started in fine art, and have worked for a living in design and programming.
There are many advantages to being familiar with both programming and design, and many similarities between the disciplines at a deep level (thinking through a problem holistically, balancing constraints, incorporating and developing ideas from clients). I think those advantages more than pay for any disadvantages which come with not being a specialist in one subject. In fact knowing something about several disciplines will often help inform your work in both and allow you to bring ideas form one to another - that's why many education systems require students to pursue a broad coarse of studies alongside their more narrowly focussed specialism even in higher education.
As an example of cross-fertilisation helped by working on both, for design I use version control to store my work, which is a practice imported from programming which I think many designers would love to have. For most designers, the equivalent is to keep 50 files in a folder marked design-1,…
Went through my Pinboard to extract all these:
- https://797capital.com/
- https://www.indexventures.com/
- https://www.sparkcapital.com/
- https://www.hcp.com/
- https://hvflabs.com/
- https://www.republiccapital.co/
- https://plus.vc/
- https://www.rarebreed.vc/
- https://www.dragonfly.xyz/
- https://macventurecapital.com/
- https://parafi.com/
- https://www.chingona.ventures/
- https://www.plexocap.com/
- https://lowercarboncapital.com/
- https://www.blckvc.org/
- https://www.gsr.io/
- https://rbf.capital/
- https://www.allraise.org/
- https://betaworksventures.com/
- https://www.gfrfund.com/
- https://www.hustlefund.vc/
- https://www.atelierventures.co/
- https://www.thetwentyminutevc.com/
- https://www.nfx.com/
- https://645ventures.com/
- https://backstagecapital.com/
- https://panteracapital.com/firm/
- https://femalefoundersfund.com/
- https://susaventures.com/
- https://atomic.vc/
- https://homebrew.co/
- https://www.cowboy.vc/
- https://foundersfund.com/
- https://www.kaporcapital.com/
- https://www.felicis.com/
- https://www.cleocap.com/
- https://www.ggvc.com/
- https://www.haystack.vc/
- https://www.menlovc.com/
- https://www.battery.com/
- https://www.nea.com/
- https://www.greycroft.com/
- https://group.softbank/
- https://twosigmaventures.com/
- https://www.redpoint.com/
- https://www.angellist.com/
- https://luxcapital.com/
- https://lsvp.com/
- https://www.bvp.com/
- https://upfront.com/
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I think what you're looking for is on the homepage if you scroll: http://designerfund.com/
Shows the overview, the mentors and people involved in the program, and at the bottom, what's involved in the fund.
Disclaimer: I'm in the current "batch" and have received a non-equity grant.
Blame the designer fund: http://designerfund.com/
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