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I think the new blogs can do both, just turn the dial more towards startups and more dev/tech. Not unless the founders of the blog make a very explicit decisio

by zaidf 16y ago

I think the new blogs can do both, just turn the dial more towards startups and more dev/tech. Not unless the founders of the blog make a very explicit decision to pass on financial benefits to continue covering start-ups. Like you said, startup coverage doesn't have much audience relative to Apple etc. and that means money lost. That is why I am not convinced we can have a popular startup blog like TC ... those that mostly cover start-ups rarely get popular; those get popular tend to have a good mix of startup + big co news which over time becomes big co news.

nikcub 16y ago
Thats fair. The issue then is that 80% of tips currently go to TC because everybody wants their startup featured there alongside all the other tech news - even if only 10% of the audience is interested. For PR companies, TC is still the big 'get', probably ranks just below a NYTimes or WSJ feature. You'd have to do a good job of handling news and new companies to convince a lot of these startups that a good/thorough feature in a startup-focused blog is worth more than being one of 20 stories on a tech blog.