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Hoover: At most 50% of products on Product Hunt are consumer
“People think that most of product hunt is actually consumer as well. It's probably, I don't know, 50% at most is consumer. There's a lot of B to B stuff on there.”
Ryan Hoover Feb 15, 2019 ▶ 16:55 Ryan Hoover on Product Hunt's Acquisition and Lessons Learned About Launches with Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
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Hoover: Wirecutter never raised a full venture capital round
“They never raised like a real VC full round.”
Ryan Hoover Feb 15, 2019 ▶ 8:20 Ryan Hoover on Product Hunt's Acquisition and Lessons Learned About Launches with Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
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Hoover: Gabe Rivera has never raised outside capital for Techmeme
“What Gabe's done with TechMe, which has been around forever. You know, it's been, it's basically a force and like a thing that everyone in technology knows about... And it doesn't, he hasn't raised money.”
Ryan Hoover Feb 15, 2019 ▶ 8:34 Ryan Hoover on Product Hunt's Acquisition and Lessons Learned About Launches with Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
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Hoover: Casey Neistat used Product Hunt's Ship for Beme Panels
“Like Casey Neistat and his new app, they used it to start capturing interest for beam panels or new app that's coming out.”
Ryan Hoover Oct 4, 2017 ▶ 3:52 Communicate with Users, Build Something They Want - Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt · Y Combinator
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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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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
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