Huddle Stories, Episode 030: Equity & Education
Hey there! Happy Wednesday.
This past week we welcomed in our newest and largest batch of Huddle Leads. Leads are members that take the extra step to get trained on best practices through our newly-launched HuddleU. In turn, they unlock extra ways to contribute and lead projects inside Huddle.
Educating more of our members is an easy win. Huddle customers can trust a consistent experience. And members, especially those coming off full-time tenures in big tech, get support and education to onramp to a sustainable independent career.
Read on to hear about what’s being built this week inside Huddle – including our newest Leads, a company update from Mike at Outlander’s Fall Showcase and a glimpse into how Huddle teams are getting paid in equity.
More soon,
Mike & Steph
Founders at Huddle
Shout-Out: Our new Leads
Welcome to our members that completed HuddleU this week. They’re set up and ready to jump in and lead new Huddle projects.
Here’s a few of the newest Huddle Leads:
Sr. Product Designer (Instacart) – can start 2-3 days/wk
Growth Leader (Grammarly) interested in FinTech & SaaS – can start 4-8h/wk
Product Advisor (Techstars) – can start 2 days/wk
Sr. Full-Stack Developer (Disney, Hypercontext) – can start 2 days/wk
Brand Designer / Art Director (Relay, Peggy) – can start 1-2 days/wk
👉 Post your project on Huddle today, meet vetted designers and builders by Friday. Or book a free team-building workshop with us.
Tune in: Huddle Pitch
One of Huddle’s lead investors, Outlander VC, recently hosted their Fall Showcase. Our Co-founder and CEO, Mike, shared the latest on Huddle and where we’re heading alongside four great startups.
Huddle Love
Huddle Member and PM Ben Kromnick
"Something that made me feel good about Huddle and brought that kick of feeling happy or good was just seeing the cool projects y'all have coming in. I felt like I'm in good company and surrounded by talented people."
In case you’re new here…
Huddle is a community of 1300+ designers, builders, and creatives that work on startups together. Think of us as vetted collaborators in your pocket. On Huddle, getting a team is as easy as posting a tweet.
From pre-launch to Series B, startups of all sizes are using Huddle like a team extender. Get design help, pitch decks, engineering, branding, marketing, advisory, and more with cross-functional teams that spin up in <1day.
🪄 Teams getting paid in equity
Equity – as both a tool for startups to move quicker and leaner and as a tool for builders to earn ownership – is close to our hearts at Huddle. We’ve enabled equity as a way to pay since we launched and we’ve even created our own note (Creator Agreement for Future Equity, the “CAFE”).
We’ve been rolling out ways to make it even easier, by offering equity as a payment option right inside the Huddle app. Startups can now clearly see when their potential Huddle team is interested in taking a portion of their payment in cash and equity.
Startups can hold more cash, get builders that have skin in the game.
The cash portion of the agreement is one-click pay through the Huddle app.
Huddle handles the equity documentation within 3-5 business days.
Huddle is powered by friends helping friends build.
Gift a founder an invite to Huddle so they can move quicker and build bigger. They’ll get expedited access to a dream team and you’ll get 5% of their first project as a thank you from the Huddle community.