"don't know how to articulate that feeling but that flutter in your stomach that you wake up with in the morning of just anxiety and stress and and worry being a ceo or founder makes it slightly harder..."

"transparent ryan hoover is the founder of product hunt which you already know he's also a former product manager which i did not know currently he's a full-time investor with his fund the weekend fund..."

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"new and you think i'm dealing with on a much smaller scale yeah yeah events are events are fun um we threw a bunch of them at product and uh yeah you do a lot of selfies and a lot of like handshakes a..."

"was gonna ask you about that so yeah um along the same lines you're you're very public person you tweet a lot you share a lot you do a lot of podcasts and things like that what's something that people..."

"i haven't been talking about it publicly primarily because i just didn't want to be lumped into oh another person moving to miami like i don't know i just there's no benefit or like reason for me to d..."

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"so freaking hard they almost always fail it's always just like oh my god this is why am i doing this to myself my general advice to founders is like don't start a company unless you just like can't no..."

"what do you advise founders for when they're thinking about should i start a company should i not start a company which how should i approach this yeah i do i do spend time ironically like challenging..."

"won't it it'll probably fail before then as most startups do but i think it's a good litmus test for yourself to be like do i actually care about this enough and am i really stoked to work on this for..."

"and then the third reason was it was like more friendly i don't know i didn't want to name it hoover capital or something like sterile wanted to be wait that's an awesome name hoover capital wow we we..."

"options i don't think today i could get further with my own i'm not super wealthy and i'm super illiquid but i have at least enough money where i could have funded you know maybe a year of development..."

"you know what you're signing up for is super important what kind of treadmill you're you're getting on yes yeah because you can't get off i mean you can but it's not like a company i always say like w..."

"like my perspective on stuff i i unfortunately always always like it kind of depends which is kind of like sounds like a cop-out answer so it's more my answers are usually more new lost and the thing ..."

"thing but actually matters for a lot of people and then the other thing is seo so seo is like a part of your strategy having articles positive articles having a positive product at launch things like ..."

"what if founders miss with how they launch yeah i mean this goes back to college and the you know i won't go on my own rant about education but you know english class and writing class a lot of teache..."

"and then there's a lot of other things around like we should go more to the product and less about the launch like do you really understand who you're building for and do you understand how to communi..."

"has like this checklist so once you launch there's like a checklist of things recommendations or tips and i'm actually forgetting like what each of them are specifically right now but some of the thin..."

"awesome that was very tactical and helpful if you were to launch something on product hunt yourself and it wasn't like hunted by ryan hoover do you think you would get to the top yeah i mean i don't k..."

"sometimes it's also driven by like the almost like the zeitgeist like what do people find interesting right now like what's sparking people's interest because product on on one side you are potentiall..."

"yeah so my background is marketing and then product management pretty quickly i used to work in the gaming industry which is like i think an awesome industry really hard to make it in that industry bu..."

"that's right okay so uh leo of sousa ventures who's also an awesome dude uh yes if you could go back i saw leo in uh miami oh uh oh oh yeah he moved to miami too oh my god everyone's over there okay s..."

"of these communities to discover all these different products and i think there was a lot of good ideas in that however i severely underestimated how difficult it would be to do two things one the pro..."

"mattered most was growth and to grow the community but what i really should have done is dedicated maybe 10 of our focus on revenue generation because you know it was once we started generating revenu..."

"to put uh anyone else in in a pickle so someday maybe i'll publish this post but to speak more vaguely about it like there are some hard really hard times and product like you know we we have all face..."

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"side the thing i've been thinking about is like again i think this is obvious to a lot of people but i think there's some nuances to it which is momentum matters so much and momentum is reflexive in t..."

"course it's in an input to a lot of things but it's just so important to nail mark andreessen talks about that that last point that there's like a word for it that i forget that a company is either be..."

"again and again uh i had a similar recognition when i was on a little psychedelic journey where i'm just like man love is all you need love is always happy man yes okay now i figured that out but i wa..."

"yeah this is a good time to play a little game that i invented just for you okay so you're the founder of product hunt okay and on product hunt people upvote ideas that they like best and so what i'm ..."

"no big asterisks it's all contextual sometimes like the audience you're building for really cares about dark mode like if you're really for developers maybe you need dark mode or some version of it bu..."

"and and then i think a lot of it is um like b2b companies usually you have a clear like problem that you're solving and you can talk to customers you can understand what are their current behaviors wh..."

"awesome i hadn't heard that uh that problem journal idea i was going to ask you if you have any suggestions for how to come up with a startup idea and that's a really interesting one so i guess i'd be..."

"the other is technology shifts so what what new thing can you build today that could be built yesterday and so there's there's a bunch of categories around there like web 3 a.i you know the biggest sh..."

"that's a lot of what we think about especially on the investing side when we talk to founders wow there's way too much good advice there have you written this down anywhere is there a tweet thread peo..."

"you know the story way better than i do but you know initially it was like just you know basically couches and extra rooms and houses and like a lot of people most people in the us would not do that l..."

"wanted to touch on investing which i believe you do full time would you say that it's your full-time gig now yeah yeah it is yeah spending all my time there and yeah cool so from what i can tell the w..."

"uh it's it's fun to be able to kind of see behind the scenes a little bit how all these things kind of play out both the good and the bad that's such an inspiring takeaway does that change how you inv..."

"the way i think about those consumer social founder first bets i love that last question along these lines for someone that's hoping to get into investing or angel investing in the near future do you ..."

"make some money in 10 years it takes a long time they're scouting that's another opportunity they're more and more scout funds probably than ever before right now in different flavors some of them are..."

"especially when i didn't and still don't have like a ton of money to angel invest so um so those are like different options like i think my blog post goes into more like pros and cons for each of thos..."

"idea i've seen people on twitter do that too what's where do you think this all goes for you are you thinking of increasing the fun that's basically the last question just yeah what's what's the futur..."

"future but i also love building building is is the most fun so creating something is whether it's a company i don't know i don't know what it is i'm not going to even call it a company but building so..."