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Torenberg: a16z Offered Series A Weeks After Product Hunt Seed Round
“I remember at Product Hunt, we raised a seed round. We had like two million dollars or something, maybe 1.5 or two million dollars in the seed round. And then a few weeks later, we got a term, a series A term sheet from Andreessen Horowitz. And we didn't even …”
Spartz: Founders should never rely on Product Hunt for marketing launches
“You don't ever do anything on Product Hunt. Like if you're, if your marketing launch plan involves Product Hunt at all, don't do it. That's fiercely competitive. You're competing with all the other 20 something males who want to start a business.”
Inactive startup founders will sell assets for $5k to stop hosting bills
“GenSpark Claw scans product hunt launches from two to four years ago. It finds one where the site is dead, but the SEO traffic is still alive. And you reach out to the founder who will sell to like, you know, maybe 25 K five K just to stop paying their AWS bil…”
Courtney: Only target partner companies with actionable collaboration channels
“It's only worth putting a company there if you think that there's something you could potentially do with that company. For example, if that company has a podcast, which would also have that audience.”
Isenberg: Source acquisitions from stalled Product Hunt launches 6-18 months old
“And like the way to do it is you scour product hunt and you don't scour today's product hunt, but you scour like six, 1218 months ago and certain things lose steam. And then you reach out and you see if you can make a deal.”
Hoover: Over-focusing on systems early leads to over-engineered products
“People like him can be challenged with overthinking things because we like to think in systems. We like to think in flywheels. We like to think of like, oh, if we have this thing, it unlocks this thing and unlocks that thing. And that's important. I think very…”
Isenberg: Product Hunt reviews provide better ideation feedback than Chrome Web Store
“Although I find that the ratings aren't as good as Product Hunt, because the people who go to Product Hunt are, like, tech people, so they're able to give, like, either you get a lot of, like, this is amazing, good, good post, or it's like, this is horrible fo…”