Re:ProductHunt is the Hot New Destination for Sourcing Start...
by bdcravens on Saturday June 21, 2014 @07:46PM
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I don't follow. Just because the featured startups are little-known doesn't necessarily correlate with ProductHunt's popularity. Perhaps PH has some secret sauce for finding startups no one knows about but are high quality, which would be great investment opportunities.
Re:ProductHunt is the Hot New Destination for Sourcing Start...
by 7Figures2Commas on Saturday June 21, 2014 @07:54PM
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I think you misunderstood me. Put simply, ProductHunt's popularity means that once a startup hits ProductHunt, it's no longer "little known."
There's nothing inherently wrong with that, but the OP's suggestion that ProductHunt is a great sourcing tool for VCs looking for "little known" startups is flawed. If you're a VC compelled to find promising startups before every investor in the Valley knows about them, you now need to find startups before they are ProductHunted.
> ...Product Hunt is an excellent sourcing tools for VCs looking to discover little known early stage startups.
If ProductHunt is "quickly becoming the hot new destination for sourcing startup investment opportunities" it cannot also be "an excellent sourcing tools [sic] for VCs looking to discover little known early stage startups." Lack of awareness of startups listed on ProductHunt is inversely correlated with ProductHunt's popularity.