The Math of TechCrunch: Is TechCrunch Still About Startups?

Post by zcam » Mon, Jun 13, 2011, 8:04 AM UTC

SoftwareMaven wrote: post #9

zcam wrote: post #6

> 1. TechCrunch is now 22 times more prolific than its founding year > TechCrunch now covers 10 times more seed-stage startups quantity != quality It used to have a lot less noise/signal ratio on TC, it used to have decent quality posts (and editors), and a TCrunched effect that barely exists now since a post gets buried quite fast given the post rate. These days getting mentioned on TC doesn't do/mean much, you end…

Those aren't even the important numbers. With 22x the number of articles and the ratio of small and mid stage startup to tech giant articles half of what it used to be, even finding the articles in the noise is a joke. Then, once found, we have to deal with the quality problem you mention. TechCrunch left my reading list almost a year ago for these reasons.

Post by mjgold » Mon, Jun 13, 2011, 7:59 PM UTC

iaskwhy wrote: post #22

mjgold wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry, TechCrunch asked for JPEGs instead of tables and that link stayed in the original table. The JPEGs are also low-quality so I'm going to try creating higher-quality ones next time.

You should go with PNG instead of JPG, it's more readable since it avoids artifacts when text is present on the image.