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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 th
by 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 agoYeah, this. How do you manage to get that kind of coverage?
- Elite 16y agoQuite 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 agoAye, 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)