This is TOTAL bull! Just curious: are you being paid by PPP?
While DEPENDING on TC coverage for the success of your start-up is a bad plan, I can vouch that TC coverage 4 days after launch put us AT LEAST three months ahead of our ambitious growth plans.
SOLELY a result of TC coverage did those bizdev emails start coming in from folks very high up at mainstream corporations.
I can understand you may want to become the next Arrington by the nature of your blog. But please don't do it at the expense of obvious bad advise at a place entrepreneurs hang out.
There is some good editorial content that sites like TC have, but there are some nitpicks as with all these sites. news.yc should be all a casual reader needs for his fix of startup buzz.
While DEPENDING on TC coverage for the success of your start-up is a bad plan, I can vouch that TC coverage 4 days after launch put us AT LEAST three months ahead of our ambitious growth plans.
SOLELY a result of TC coverage did those bizdev emails start coming in from folks very high up at mainstream corporations.