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Hoover rejected early investor pressure to build a Product Hunt VC fund
“A few different investors and people suggested, Hey, you should start a product hunt fund. You should build a fund on top of product hunt, invest in, use the data in the community and everything to source and find really early stage opportunities. And I was pr…”
Ryan Hoover Feb 15, 2019 ▶ 31:41 Ryan Hoover on Product Hunt's Acquisition and Lessons Learned About Launches with Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
Insight
DeBaun: Pitching competitor's investors is a mistake for founders
“I think I made the mistake that a lot of first-time founders make, which is you raise you go and look at your competitors, right? You go look stocks on AngelList, you look at them on Crunchbase, and you're like, okay, well, who invested in them? We're like the…”
Morgan DeBaun Aug 2, 2017 ▶ 14:00 Morgan DeBaun on Reaching 20M Millennials - With Kat Manalac at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator
Assertion Supported
Hoover: AngelList platform sets up funds for $12k replacing $100k costs
“So they do all of this work that would normally cost maybe a 100,000 dollars to set up all for like 12,000 dollars and they take a piece of the carry.”
Ryan Hoover Oct 4, 2017 ▶ 38:50 Communicate with Users, Build Something They Want - Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt · Y Combinator
Assertion Supported
Hoover: AngelList's original MVP was an email digest
“AngelList, ironically, was one of those. Like, AngelList's MVP essentially was an email digest.”
Ryan Hoover Oct 4, 2017 ▶ 7:10 Communicate with Users, Build Something They Want - Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt · Y Combinator
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