

The residency program is designed intentionally not to be an incubator with daily programming or a formal demo day. Those joining Brickyards have received investment and moved to Chattanooga to work under one roof. So the two decided to join forces again to launch a residency program for founders last year. The only people who understood that uncertainty were other pre-product market fit founders, added Doody. We had the pressure of venture capital but our rudder as a company was still pretty thin. Thinking back to the early days of Bellhop, the hardest period for us was post-raise but pre-product market fit. When you’re pre-product market fit, you have a lot of accelerators whose job it is to get a founder to their first raise and then their job is pretty much done. “It wasn’t something that got us super excited until we started thinking about what we thought was missing in the world of early stage venture. “To be honest, Matt and I never thought that we’d go into venture,” Doody told Hypepotamus. Patterson and Doody launched Brickyard as a new take on venture capital and physical space for founders.

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With the launch of their latest venture, the pair is now hoping to move full companies down to the city. Matt Patterson and Cam Doody used to help people move from house to house with their Chattanooga-based moving startup Bellhop.
