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Re:ProductHunt is the Hot New Destination for Sourcing Start... by bdcravens on Saturday June 21, 2014 @07:46PM (#7926388)
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.
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Re:ProductHunt is the Hot New Destination for Sourcing Start... by 7Figures2Commas on Saturday June 21, 2014 @07:54PM (#7926406)
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.

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