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50 startups TechCrunch was too busy to cover (while talking about themselves)

rburton 15y ago
I would suspect www.CrunchFund.com to be on that list.. Since it's not TechCrunch or related to Michael Arrington at all.
- jasonmcalacanis 15y ago
  we actually are trying to stay away from reporting on angel investors/VCs/funds.... ... we want to cover creators of actual product and founders.
  - newchimedes 15y ago
    congrats on getting it "launched". It's great you are giving exposure to the startups that Techcrunch started off giving, bu then stopped.
    - jasonmcalacanis 15y ago
      exactly... we're trying to re-establish the covering of innovation, features and products. not fighting with our corporate parent. :-)
  - rburton 15y ago
    Well, www.crunchfund.com isn't an investor, VC, or any sort of fund related website. It's a startup company that's geared towards social sales.
staunch 15y ago
I love that you're working on the TC competitor. Strangely I've found that I just don't read the LAUNCH stories very often. I know it may sound trivial, but I suspect it's partly because of the grey on grey text and inline formatting of the topic headers. The format of "WHEN/WHERE", etc also seems pretty boring. It's like I'm reading a LAUNCH application for a company. The reason people used to love TechCrunch was because Arrington would take all that detail then condense it down, add perspective, and make it interesting to read. It also doesn't seem like you're really keeping up to your mission of quality over quantity. Tons of the stuff on LAUNCH is news-of-the-day linkbait. It looks like there are 10+ articles per day now, most of which are covering the same kind of crap that TechCruch does. And the company profiles don't seem particularly great all the time. Look how sparse this one is: http://www.launch.is/blog/hottest-techstars-company-debuting-tomorrow-inboxfever.html http://www.launch.is/blog/hottest-techstars-company-debuting... Just some feedback. I think you're on to something pretty cool with LAUNCH. I just don't feel it's up to snuff quite yet.

I would suspect www.CrunchFund.com to be on that list.. Since it's not TechCrunch or related to Michael Arrington at all.

jasonmcalacanis 15y ago
we actually are trying to stay away from reporting on angel investors/VCs/funds.... ... we want to cover creators of actual product and founders.
- newchimedes 15y ago
  congrats on getting it "launched". It's great you are giving exposure to the startups that Techcrunch started off giving, bu then stopped.
  - jasonmcalacanis 15y ago
    exactly... we're trying to re-establish the covering of innovation, features and products. not fighting with our corporate parent. :-)
- rburton 15y ago
  Well, www.crunchfund.com isn't an investor, VC, or any sort of fund related website. It's a startup company that's geared towards social sales.

staunch 15y ago

I love that you're working on the TC competitor. Strangely I've found that I just don't read the LAUNCH stories very often. I know it may sound trivial, but I suspect it's partly because of the grey on grey text and inline formatting of the topic headers. The format of "WHEN/WHERE", etc also seems pretty boring. It's like I'm reading a LAUNCH application for a company. The reason people used to love TechCrunch was because Arrington would take all that detail then condense it down, add perspective, and make it interesting to read. It also doesn't seem like you're really keeping up to your mission of quality over quantity. Tons of the stuff on LAUNCH is news-of-the-day linkbait. It looks like there are 10+ articles per day now, most of which are covering the same kind of crap that TechCruch does. And the company profiles don't seem particularly great all the time. Look how sparse this one is: http://www.launch.is/blog/hottest-techstars-company-debuting-tomorrow-inboxfever.html http://www.launch.is/blog/hottest-techstars-company-debuting... Just some feedback. I think you're on to something pretty cool with LAUNCH. I just don't feel it's up to snuff quite yet.