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CNN? Well done.

• il 16y ago
  It would be interesting to learn what they did to get to the front page of CNN. Excellent PR firm? Techcrunch/YC coverage? Or just hard work and ingenuity by the founders?
  • dflock 16y ago
    Yeah, this. How do you manage to get that kind of coverage?
    • Elite 16y ago
      Quite a bit of it has to do with YC and the tech community buzz and implicit validation. The founder of HipMunk mentioned that CNN contacted him out of the blue within a day after they launched. If it was the same product done outside YC I don't think they would have got CNN coverage, at least not this soon.
      • kn0thing 16y ago
        Aye, YC is probably one of the strongest startup-related brands these days. It's shocking to see how well people respond to my relationship to YC these days. Back when Steve & I started reddit, we had to explain to nearly everyone just what "Y Combinator" was all about. The association really is validating in a lot of ways -- but every day it becomes even more important to keep up the brand's value. (Full-disclosure: I'm a new employee at YC - Ambassador to the East)