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Agree whole-heartedly. I am still trying to figure out what exactly it takes to be what I refer to as a "sweet heart of silicon valley". Some companies repeated

Agree whole-heartedly. I am still trying to figure out what exactly it takes to be what I refer to as a "sweet heart of silicon valley". Some companies repeatedly get covered regardless of how minor and marginal their new feature is (I recall reading about chat roulette's new wall paper a couple weeks ago). Same situation in the group messaging space. I am the cofounder of Groupie, which is tied with Beluga as the highest rated group messaging app on the App Store. We have tens of thousands of users and tens of thousands of groups. In fact, you cant search for GroupMe without seeing Groupie, yet we've never been covered. It's a mystery to me but that ultimately hasn't stopped us from growing and with a good product, it won't stop you from growing either. On that note, happy to make myself available you should want to discuss anything since we've probably hit a few hurdles that you're undoubtedly going to confront. Good luck. Leo at groupie dot co

genystartup 15y ago
Thanks for the intro mate! Will certainly shoot you an e-mail soon. And I agree with your comments. I haven't said any of these to mock the writers (infact I won't mention the publications), because it's completely up to them to decide who they write about and who they won't write about. I just want to encourage anyone else who was/is in the same boat that being covered helps a lot - yes, but that's all it does. It doesn't disqualify you at all. If I had only been covered on a big blog on Friday, don't think I would have even got to 2k users by now.
jgervin 15y ago
Not sure if it still holds true today, but in the past with some blog tech writers, you needed to submit your pitch something like this. Hello, <insert info about startup here>. Thanks, <insert name> P.S. attached is an Apple Macbook Pro, cheers.
- mnutt 15y ago
  In this case I think it's a bit simpler. GroupMe was born at TechCrunch Disrupt Hack Day 2010, and is probably the biggest success story of that event by an order of magnitude. Hence, they got a lot of TC coverage early on.

genystartup 15y ago

Thanks for the intro mate! Will certainly shoot you an e-mail soon. And I agree with your comments. I haven't said any of these to mock the writers (infact I won't mention the publications), because it's completely up to them to decide who they write about and who they won't write about. I just want to encourage anyone else who was/is in the same boat that being covered helps a lot - yes, but that's all it does. It doesn't disqualify you at all. If I had only been covered on a big blog on Friday, don't think I would have even got to 2k users by now.

jgervin 15y ago

Not sure if it still holds true today, but in the past with some blog tech writers, you needed to submit your pitch something like this. Hello, <insert info about startup here>. Thanks, <insert name> P.S. attached is an Apple Macbook Pro, cheers.

mnutt 15y ago
In this case I think it's a bit simpler. GroupMe was born at TechCrunch Disrupt Hack Day 2010, and is probably the biggest success story of that event by an order of magnitude. Hence, they got a lot of TC coverage early on.