Sigh. If we ignore uncov, will it go away again?
Why You Always Read About Y Combinator Startups on TechCrunch
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Re: Why You Always Read About Y Combinator Startups on TechCrunch
#22OK Teddy, we get it. You hate Arrington and his website. Get over it and find better ways to spend your time than slinging vitriol.
Re: Why You Always Read About Y Combinator Startups on TechCrunch
#23I don't read TC because the signal/noise ratio is not good for me, sometimes there is some interesting article but most of the things are rumors, startups with no relevancy covered, and so on. I guess there is space for the Ars Technica of the web...
I know this is more a news site about development startups but I bet that one of the best kind of startups one can build today is content startups. The internet is big and full of users but good stuff to read are rare.
Re: Why You Always Read About Y Combinator Startups on TechCrunch
#24Michael Arrington has made no secret (in the past, at least) of the fact that he HATES being scooped and LOVES to get exclusives. And so he should! He's trying to run the best blog in the game, so unless a piece of news is truly massive, why does he need to run non-exclusives? As such, it's no real surprise that a lot of Y Combinator startups make it on to TechCrunch. As pg explains above, Y Combinator pretty much te…
No "best of class" publication tries to operate under such an edict. It's absurd when you think about it. The Wall Street Journal breaks some killer stories, but also reports on all of the day's news. If they didn't no one would subscribe, they'd wait to hear about the exclusives from someone else who provided all the news. More over, these publications practice actual journalism and go get the news instead of waiting to be briefed by some web 2.0 jack ass "exec".