Reasons Not to Pitch Your Startup to Techcrunch
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Re: Reasons Not to Pitch Your Startup to Techcrunch
#2Related to #3, while your users aren't reading TC, your potential competitors most likely are... So pick your forum based on the audience.
On the flip side, TC gets syndicated widely, and is very helpful for technical hiring.
Re: Reasons Not to Pitch Your Startup to Techcrunch
#3I'm not sure why pitching to TechCrunch and pitching to other blogs/Twitter are mutually exclusive.
Re: Reasons Not to Pitch Your Startup to Techcrunch
#4tl;dr - main reason - grapes are sour.
Re: Reasons Not to Pitch Your Startup to Techcrunch
#5So this piece is publicity for Publiseek?
How is Publiseek different from HARO?
Re: Reasons Not to Pitch Your Startup to Techcrunch
#6I'm not sure why pitching to TechCrunch and pitching to other blogs/Twitter are mutually exclusive.
Hey minimaxir, you're right that they're not. Founders are short on time and need to focus. So I'm illustrating a point that you can reliably get publicity within the time limit that you allocate for this activity. It doesn't need to be a hit or miss :)
Re: Reasons Not to Pitch Your Startup to Techcrunch
#7So this piece is publicity for Publiseek? How is Publiseek different from HARO?
Hi Egreg, I'm going to go ahead and say that yes it is. In the sense that every piece of content you share online with your name on it is publicity.
That includes that instagram photo of a great day at the beach, that blog post you wrote about reaching your 50th paid user, or a retweet of a hacker news article about lisp.
In each case you're saying look, that's me, that's what I do, and that's what I stand for.
It's called content marketing. And everyone is doing it if they're aware of it or not.
Re: Reasons Not to Pitch Your Startup to Techcrunch
#8Hi Davey - on your site Publiseek, it is in English but quite a lot of emphasis that is works in FRANCE too. Why is that?
It's kinda offputting if I just want to reach UK media.
Re: Reasons Not to Pitch Your Startup to Techcrunch
#9So this piece is publicity for Publiseek? How is Publiseek different from HARO?
Hi Egreg, I'm going to go ahead and say that yes it is. In the sense that every piece of content you share online with your name on it is publicity. That includes that instagram photo of a great day at the beach, that blog post you wrote about reaching your 50th paid user, or a retweet of a hacker news article about lisp. In each case you're saying look, that's me, that's what I do, and that's what I stand for. It's…
Agreed. And nothing wrong with it! (As long as you mean what you post.) So how is Publiseek different from HARO?
Re: Reasons Not to Pitch Your Startup to Techcrunch
#10Hi Davey - on your site Publiseek, it is in English but quite a lot of emphasis that is works in FRANCE too. Why is that? It's kinda offputting if I just want to reach UK media.
Hey Major_Grooves, that's a bug, IP geolocation gone wrong :( If you select United Kingdom you'll only get publicity opportunities related to the UK. let me know if I can do anything to help.
By the way what is your startup about? :)