Launching Startup Scouting as a Service

Today I launched a service for Angel investors where, for a monthly fee, I’ll send them investment-ready startups to invest in. Below are a few of the comments I received from “friends” about this idea…rather, Product.

“Why you?” “Where are you getting the deals?” “I’m just against the thought of this all together” “If this kind of service worked, someone else would have started it” “why don’t you get a real job instead?” “This won’t work”

You see, some people don’t really want you to succeed. They want to be perceived as supportive — that’s why you see all the public back patting on twitter — those people need to be perceived as helpful because they actually aren’t in real life. Discovering this and realizing it wasn’t me, but them, made it easier to navigate the noise and to ship this product out.

Failure is everywhere — it’s in you, it’s around you, and it’s around everyone you know, but failure is just the end of a test, a hypothesis, and we don’t have to quit after 1, or 2, or even 100. We have to keep failing otherwise we’d just work on one thing, or think our one thing was it — when it wasn’t/isn’t. I don’t know if my Scout Service will be a failure or not, but I do know I need to ship it and find out.

You can check out the details of the service on the landing page linked above, on Product Hunt, or if you have questions thereafter you can email me at ryan@vcscout.co

p.s. to those that did provide good feedback and support, Thank You!