Producthunt Founder's dialogue with San Francisco entrepreneurs

Pioneering expert Brenden Mulligan and Ryan Hoover met each other in the autumn, in San Francisco, a place where many technology and innovation entrepreneurs have been brought together, and these two are now starting their own businesses. They started a conversation at South Park, and at first glance, the place was an ordinary theme park with swings and benches everywhere. But the park has seen a lot of entrepreneurial opportunities: Jack Dorsey The first idea of being a stat.us, now well known Twitter. Mulligan and Hoover, while sipping coffee, chatted about each other's ongoing projects. Mulligan is the founder of Cluster, who developed a private group picture-sharing application and added some new elements to the concept, eventually making homeroom, which was just online two days ago. Mulligan explains. Speaking of cluster, Mulligan explained the idea behind the start-up, saying: About 18 months ago, the company was just set up. Its initial idea is that people who join a party or event will be able to share their photos with each other at the end of their activities. From a start-up perspective, we've got a lot of users, and we've seen how users use this application. We found that while many users would use the app at parties and events, they would use it at other times, such as creating an album for their children, keeping all of his photos for the next 10 years, and then sending it to him when he grew up. So this application becomes a private social networking application from a party photo-sharing application. "These new ways of using users have prompted Mulligan to start a new attempt at cluster Labs: homeroom. This is a private web and mobile application social network where school teachers can use the service to share photos of children in school with parents. The theme of the conversation turned to product Hunt, and the recent 6.1 million dollar financing of the product. As Mulligan commented on the success of product Hunt, Hoover said that while product Hunt had grown fast, he had recently been struggling to think about how to make a sensible expansion: we are really growing, but we are now trying to slow it down. I often use such a metaphor, when you are at a dinner party, suddenly another 10 people, these 10 people will change the whole atmosphere of the dinner and chat theme, everyone will change once. "When we talk about product hunt, the topic of conversation becomes their destination, and it's very important for Hoover.One place: Y Combinator. The famous Y Combinator is a business incubator in Mountain View, Calif., which provides financial and other help to start-ups, who receive two applications a year, and the fledgling start-ups get 120,000 dollars, and Y Combinator only requires a small percentage of the corporate stakes. Just 3 months ago, Hoover, with Product Hunt, joined a 3-month incubation program held by Y Combinator. Mulligan y Combinator as "the world's most famous business incubator," he said: "Startups from all over the world want to join Y Combinator." Hoover says: The most interesting thing about YC is that someone always asks me, ' is it worthwhile to join YC? ' To be honest, YC's help to me never ended. Although the project is over, I still have access to a lot of partners and I can make an appointment with them at any time. I now have a network of about 1500 entrepreneurs, and I have a close relationship with them. Although the project is over, YC is providing me with help and value in other ways. "People have to learn to take advantage of themselves, and founders of Startups," Mulligan. "I think for most people, we are just good at getting the company to grow on one side, and few entrepreneurs are proficient in all aspects of entrepreneurship," he says. Even the best entrepreneurs we recognize, such as Mark Zuckerberg, need Sheryl Sandberg to solve a lot of problems that he can't solve himself. "If you look at the founders of Twitter, you'll find that they've left the company, and now there are only a few founders with a great sense of business running the business." We often see so-called ' serial entrepreneurs ' who are constantly creating new businesses because they know they are best at early management and operations. "Brenden Mulliganbrenden Mulligan is a product designer and entrepreneur from San Francisco who has had many successful entrepreneurial experiences. At present he is immersed in the business of party photos private sharing service cluster. Mulligan, who resigned in 2006, founded the Music business Onesheet (2013 was bandzoogle) and Artistdata (2010 sonicbids). The enterprises established by Mulligan include Morningpics, Tiplist, Webbygram and Photooile. In addition to the identity of the entrepreneur, Mulligan is also a guide to seed money and 500Startups, the start-up accelerator.Division。 He has provided advice and guidance to a number of start-ups, including the famous UNTAPPD. Ryan Hooverryan Hoover is a successful young entrepreneur, aged 27. A year ago, he set up product Hunt, the user, the investor, and the application developer, who were able to achieve their goals on the platform. Users can find excellent applications here, and investors can find good investment projects here, and application developers can promote their applications here. Since its inception, the company has grown rapidly, gaining 2000 users in just 20 days after the launch. Product Hunt won 6.1 million dollars in seed financing in October this year, with the a16z. (viamashable, translate/fast carp)