Ryan Hoover
14 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 7, 2022 by Ryan Hoover · said 4 times in 1 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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Aug 7, 2022
Hoover: Targeting a narrow audience makes building and messaging easier for startups
“It's effectively the more narrow your idea generally, and this is where I throw in the big asterisks, like not for everything, there's always contextual differences, but generally the easier it is to build a great solution for those people, because now you can…”
Aug 7, 2022 positive
Hoover: A product background is crucial for early-stage startup investing
“Having a product background, I think is one of the most important aspects of early stage startup investing. Meaning oftentimes when you're building a new company, there are a lot of risks and there's a lot of important things to nail, but it all Ultimately com…”
Aug 7, 2022
Aug 7, 2022
Aug 7, 2022
Hoover: Raised a fund because he lacked personal angel capital
“So that that's the decision that I decided back in 2017 is I wanted to raise a fund. It's a lot more work to raise the capital and there's a lot more responsibility and managing funds and so on and so forth. But it provided me with the most flexibility and in …”
Aug 7, 2022 positive
Hoover: Product launches serve as overlooked team morale milestones
“One of them is team morale. And this might, I think this is overlooked. And I would also encourage founders not to get their team to I would say you shouldn't be motivated to launch a product just to get like the likes on Twitter and the upvotes on product hun…”
Aug 7, 2022
Aug 7, 2022
Hoover: $21M might be the largest fund Weekend Fund ever raises
“Our latest fund is twenty one million. And that might, I might change my mind on this, but that might be the biggest fund we ever raise. I might keep it around that same size for the next one, because it really allows us to be like really collaborative.”
Aug 7, 2022 neutral
Aug 7, 2022 neutral
Hoover: Product Hunt might not have needed venture capital if personally funded
“Product isn't the type of company that needs to raise a ton of money. It's also one which is not doesn't have like direct competitors in the sense of like an Uber and Lyft situation where raising is actually like kind of mandatory and you sort of have to build…”
Aug 7, 2022
Hoover: Behind the confident mask, almost every company is internally chaotic
“Everyone has to wear this unfortunate mask is kind of the way I, what I used to describe it, this mask in Life and business where everything is going great and, you know, you're super confident. There are no problems. You got it all under control. And so the r…”
Aug 7, 2022
Aug 7, 2022
Aug 7, 2022
Hoover: Product launches are often better for recruiting than customer acquisition
“And a lot of people default to things like customer acquisition. Oh, I want to acquire customers. But sometimes that's actually not, it's not useful. Launch sometimes doesn't help with that. But there are many other reasons why you might want to launch. So cus…”