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Michael Arrington reportedly to launch “CrunchFund” to invest in startups

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Re: Michael Arrington reportedly to launch “CrunchFund” to invest in startups

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Post by andrewcooke »

erikpukinskis wrote: post #15
coderdude wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's true that they have a high volume of stories but those stories are: 1) Shown to a huge number of people. Their traffic, I'm sure, dwarfs HN's traffic. 2) They have an enormous amount of people subscribed via RSS who will be able to read the news at their leisure. 3) Their stories are also shared via Facebook, Google+, Twitter, you name it. 4) TC articles make their way to HN and Reddit as well, providing additio…

1) Shown to a huge number of people. Their traffic, I'm sure, dwarfs HN's traffic. This is definitely true. My startup was at the top of the front page on HN for a day or so (a year ago), and that sent us something like 1500 visits. The subsequent TechCrunch writeup garnered something around 5000.

i wonder how that's changed since then, though? i guess both have got bigger, but what were the relative rates? i got 9k unique visitors on a front page blog post from hn last week, fwiw.

Re: Michael Arrington reportedly to launch “CrunchFund” to invest in startups

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Post by mhashim »

rsingel wrote: post #2

Someone recently wrote that you know you are in a bubble when reporters start their own startups. Maybe that should be revised to be "when reporters start their own venture funds." (that said, this ain't the same as the last tech bubble, and the issues around Arrington/access/other angels are only going to get more and more complicated.)

Did you forget about this guy? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Moritz

Not too shabby for a reporter.

Re: Michael Arrington reportedly to launch “CrunchFund” to invest in startups

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Post by jaredmck »

coderdude wrote: post #5

He's in a good position to do this. Connections and fame aside, he has the perfect avenue to give exposure to the startups he invests in. I think this is critical. Part of the reason why many tech startups "go big" is because they're given broad exposure and are shown in a good light from the beginning. For example, Y Combinator has Hacker News to promote their investments. I've said before that without HN you probab…

Why do people think PR and coverage is so important? It's not at all obvious to me that techcrunch has anything to do with who actually succeeds, they really don't do real coverage of early stage startups- it's just PR Newswire plus trolling authors. Yet so many founders seem to think it's important and even worth hiring a PR firm to get into techcrunch and other similarly thin tech content farm blogs. That techcrunch nofollows all outbound links says enough about how they think about your startup, no matter how cool it may be.

Re: Michael Arrington reportedly to launch “CrunchFund” to invest in startups

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Post by fedd »

andrewcooke wrote: post #31
erikpukinskis wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1) Shown to a huge number of people. Their traffic, I'm sure, dwarfs HN's traffic. This is definitely true. My startup was at the top of the front page on HN for a day or so (a year ago), and that sent us something like 1500 visits. The subsequent TechCrunch writeup garnered something around 5000.

i wonder how that's changed since then, though? i guess both have got bigger, but what were the relative rates? i got 9k unique visitors on a front page blog post from hn last week, fwiw.

and i wonder which is the best day of week to post a show hn post? sorry for offtopic.

Re: Michael Arrington reportedly to launch “CrunchFund” to invest in startups

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Post by ChrisNorstrom »

jaredmck wrote: post #35
coderdude wrote: post #5

He's in a good position to do this. Connections and fame aside, he has the perfect avenue to give exposure to the startups he invests in. I think this is critical. Part of the reason why many tech startups "go big" is because they're given broad exposure and are shown in a good light from the beginning. For example, Y Combinator has Hacker News to promote their investments. I've said before that without HN you probab…

Why do people think PR and coverage is so important? It's not at all obvious to me that techcrunch has anything to do with who actually succeeds, they really don't do real coverage of early stage startups- it's just PR Newswire plus trolling authors. Yet so many founders seem to think it's important and even worth hiring a PR firm to get into techcrunch and other similarly thin tech content farm blogs. That techcrunc…

PR and Coverage CAN BE very important. Everyone remember the Opera browser? Amazing little browser, fast, secure, first to implement quiet a few features. It was around before Firefox, before Safari, before Chrome, and as the other browsers grew in market share, Opera is still in last place. Why? My guess, lack of PR and coverage?

Re: Michael Arrington reportedly to launch “CrunchFund” to invest in startups

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Post by andrewcooke »

fedd wrote: post #37
andrewcooke wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i wonder how that's changed since then, though? i guess both have got bigger, but what were the relative rates? i got 9k unique visitors on a front page blog post from hn last week, fwiw.

and i wonder which is the best day of week to post a show hn post? sorry for offtopic.

yeah, i wondered the same - that was a weekend, which i suspect is lower.

Re: Michael Arrington reportedly to launch “CrunchFund” to invest in startups

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Post by rburton »

kloncks wrote: post #33

CrunchFund.com, which according to the article was only recently registered, is about a product called CrewBuyer. What is that?

crewbuyer.com is a startup focused on group sales where members establish groups (otherwise known as a crew) to buy products. They have an setup that'll let members refer friends in return a 1% discount for each member referred.

I hope that helps.

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