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List Your Startup on AngelList

  • Create your Company Profile
  • You’ll need a personal profile first
  • Click on your picture in the top right, then click Create Company Profile
  • Fill out each field. Be to-the-point concise, but give a complete overview of your company.
  • Clearly state your fundraising goal. Be upfront about how much you want to raise in your current round of fundraising (if you are fundraising, it’s not necessary to fundraise to create a Company Profile on AngelList or to post a job).
  • Use all 4 markets. Those following the listed markets will be able to come across your startup easily. It is not wise to create a new market. If you create a new one, no investors will be following it, therefore no one will be able to find you.

medium.com/@marenkate/list-your-startup-on-angellist-how-to-375ee289177f

This article explains what I did to do this, so you can achieve the same result. It is broken into 4 sections: * Update Your Website: What to do to update your web site to prepare to submit to BetaList * Develop Your Process: How to prepare for people asking for access to your product or service * Plan Your Announcements: How to plan a promotion strategy to get upvotes, comments & tweets * Do Your Followup: What to do after you’ve launched

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How we got 1000 beta signups in 2 weeks

We decided to focus on BetaList first, as it was the apt community for a private beta product like ours. (Product Hunt wouldn’t accept private betas, so we kept it for later.)

BetaList is a vibrant community where the audience is hungry to try new stuff everyday. Getting on BetaList however, is close to impossible if you go the organic way — like Product Hunt. We realized that their wait periods can go indefinitely long after a submission. So we decided to go the paid route and spent $199 on a one day approval process.

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How to post on Hacker News

  • Submit at 8:00 AM EST. If you miss the window (after 8:20 AM), simply post the day or week after.
  • Preferably on Wednesday. Weekends front page are easier to land for example, but Wednesdays seem to be the peak of traffic for HN (more eyeballs).
  • Have a great title. That means being relevant and catchy, use capitalization and potentially use slang (a simple “sh*t” in the title can go a long way).
  • Be opinionated. Having a strong opinion about something will help create some level of discussion and buzz among readers, which helps getting upvotes.
  • Be relevant. HN is a community of hackers and entrepreneurs, so either post about entrepreneurship, technology or the related lifestyle and interests of such kind of people.