Experiment: If your startup is growing fast and could use $300K, email me :)

Ryan Hoover
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I ran a similar experiment on Twitter a while ago and realized I should have asked the Product Hunt community. First, some context: I started Weekend Fund in 2017 while I was still the CEO at Product Hunt. Today, @vedika_jain and I write $100K to $300K checks into early-stage startups (most of which launched on Product Hunt at some point). Our background is in product and community building, but we have a network of over 400 LPs across every domain from data science to enterprise sales. More details at weekend.fund. If you're primary KPI (revenue, MAU, etc.) is growing 20%+ for 6+ months, drop me a note with details ryan@weekend.fund. If you have a deck, please share but we'd also love to chat with founders that aren't actively raising but could use our capital and help. :)

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Kelly An
Great to see you back Ryan! Thanks for sharing the Weekend Fund news!
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Drew Falkman
AARP Money Map™
AARP Money Map™
This is amazing. I love it. Always appreciate what you're doing out there for startups and hackers everywhere, @rrhoover!
Lisa Dziuba
Don’t Panic by Lemon.io
Love this, so sad that I'm not a founder right now :)
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André J
Nice inch! For 100-300k how much equity do you require in return? Ballpark number?
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Ryan Hoover
@sentry_co it varies by company and stage. We target a 3%+ stake.
André J
@rrhoover Reasonable. ✌️ I'll ping you an email, once we hit exponential growth. Altho it would have to be apart of a wider raise with other investors. A $1-3m seed-round. Would you partake in such around for the right case?
Ruben Boonzaaijer
@sentry_co Tap looks great! I'm notified! ps. ringly.io is live today your support would help us out a lot
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Derek
Anyone who gets the PH cat king in their corner is on a fast track to success. Well done 👏🏻
Russ Halilov
do you invest in companies who are competitors with your portfolio companies?
Ryan Hoover
@russ_halilov we avoid that
Rajat Dangi 🛠️
Sounds amazing! https://mockey.ai has grown so well in the last 6-8 months! 1M+ Monthly users now 🚀 Sending a deck very soon. Mockey AI has come a long way since this launch :)
Neel Patel
@rrhoover but we haven't got past 6 months yet. What do you think?
Naresh Meetei
This is so cool. I wish I could launch my idea and grow it sooner.
Ruben Boonzaaijer
@sathish_nagarajan Interesting product! I'm notified! ps. ringly.io is live today your support would help us out a lot
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FuseBase /formerly Nimbus/
hey @rrhoover @vedika_jain - perfect timing 🤩 I sent you a deck, we are actively raising now after rebranding and a successful launch here on PH 🙌 are there any chances we still could be in? :)
angel william
I could use some help.
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Utkarsh Agarwal
Emailed you :) We’ve also launched today -- would love your feedback on the same
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Judith Clary
this is great, presently our product is yet to be ready, very soon it'll be ready for launch ☺️
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Chris Lester
Love it! Can’t wait to see the update!
Markk Tong
AI Desk by Collov AI
AI Desk by Collov AI
Awesome experienment
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Ruben Boonzaaijer
@markk0217 Museclip looks fun! I'm notified! ps. ringly.io is live today your support would help us out a lot
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AmazingSylvia
Love it, I am not a founder yet, but I hope I can make this progress in the future
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Arlie Rutherford
I could use some help.
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Chris Messina
Will you share the results of this experiment (even if you don't name names)? :)
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Ryan Hoover
@chrismessina @jordimonpmm I received several replies but none turned into a check (yet). Many companies are growing nicely, but still very early. There are also several AI-powered companies that have good growth rates but there's a common pattern of high churn as consumers get curious to try new things but are ultimately left disappointed.
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Ryan Hoover
@chrismessina yeah! I'll followup here in a week or so. :)
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Kushal Shrestha
@chrismessina @rrhoover can't wait to see what unfolds here 👀