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The bootstrapped start-up with no connections in the industry has slim chances of being featured in any tech blog.
My best advice is to keep your head down and keep coding and improving your product.
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PandoDaily, in particular, is funded by VC firms that also fund tech startups. They're basically buying coverage for their investments I would like to point out that HackerNews is run by a VC firm and YC alumni effectively get free coverage here.
Any coverage YC alum get is by us upvoting them, though.
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PandoDaily, in particular, is funded by VC firms that also fund tech startups. They're basically buying coverage for their investments I would like to point out that HackerNews is run by a VC firm and YC alumni effectively get free coverage here.
But the difference is that HN content is posted by any random user. It is not employing a staff of self righteous, egotistical reporters to post crap about YC firms. The content on HN is more honest, if you will...
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But the difference is that HN content is posted by any random user. It is not employing a staff of self righteous, egotistical reporters to post crap about YC firms. The content on HN is more honest, if you will...
Except for the administratively front-paged YC ads.
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I've always wondered on "my startup is credible because I was on TC"... Wouldn't actual user count and other metrics be more credible than "I was able to schmooze to some editor"?
Sure they would. But if a company has a complimentary quote from a reputable source then I'm more likely to find it credible than one without.
Unless the end user is a TC reader the endorsement is irrelevant. And that's my entire point.
I've been covered on Techcrunch, Mashable, ReadWriteWeb, TheNextWeb, GigaOm, Lifehacker, etc., multiple times, and I can say for sure that this guy doesn't know what he's talking about. Sure it's not as effective as long time ago when there used to be this thing called "being Techcrunch'd", but it's nowhere as ineffective as that guy pointed out. It doesn't matter if his original statement included the part about "te…