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sure PR firms can help ... but there is not way you can get Fred Wilson to use the product before its launched, or get Dave Winer to try it out... or its not ev

by shayan 19y ago

sure PR firms can help ... but there is not way you can get Fred Wilson to use the product before its launched, or get Dave Winer to try it out... or its not even that easy to get TechCrunch, and many other A List bloggers to write about your product... some of these blogs are big because no PR firm can get them to just publish the stuff, they are very picky... And of course if an average person wants TechCrunch to write about their product they will have very little chance to get any attention, but if I can get PG to ask TechCrunch, then its a different story, which is fair since they know who PG is and they know their time is not being wasted, whereas its hard to know what other people thinking... They have surely had great PR and they have probably got advice on what they should do, but what they are getting back is not simply because they are willing to spend dollars on a PR firm ... and if it is, and there are such influential PR firms please introduce them to me

brezina 19y ago
PG doesn't ask TC to write stories for his companies. TC asks PG. YC is a quality filter - it works for follow-on investors, acquirers, and press alike. edited: I didn't intend for this comment to be insulting. "TC asks PG" was hyperbole. What I meant to get across is that TC is interested in writing about YC companies because YC acts as a good filter for all the stuff that comes across Arrington's inbox.
- shayan 19y ago
  you are laughing as if you are very confident about your answer ... well I am not as sure as you are what exactly PG does ... but I doubt TC calls up PG or anyone else for that matter on daily basis to find out whats new... and maybe PG doesn't do it but a lot of other VC's do (check this interview video with Michael Arrington about how to get on TC http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/11/how_to_get_in_t.html http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/11/how_to_get_in_t.html ) ... if I am going to work with YC I would expect them to help me with these kind of stuff ... I mean that is the whole point of YC (don't start with saying they are not a PR team and they are not there to create news for you, I know that) .. but the way YC is structured (which I think is great) is to mostly give you advice and support ... And this kind of support could mean more than anything else to help you launch your business, create traction and gain users, specially with Disqus that is late in the game, and needs the support of bloggers, and has many competition, and there is only a need of one of these services on each blog, and it has been proven that its not so easy to get dominance in this field
  - jey 19y ago
    "you are laughing as if you are very confident about your answer" FWIW, brezina is a cofounder of YC-funded Xobni, so he has the inside scoop.
    - shayan 19y ago
      oh thats interesting ... so maybe he should be kind enough to answer the questions and give us his insight!!! I would find that more useful and interesting :) and congrats to him as well for xobni they have done a great job
- shayan 19y ago
  I see your point now and we are in agreement ... I kind of mentioned that myself in the last sentences too

by shayan 19y ago

brezina 19y ago

PG doesn't ask TC to write stories for his companies. TC asks PG. YC is a quality filter - it works for follow-on investors, acquirers, and press alike. edited: I didn't intend for this comment to be insulting. "TC asks PG" was hyperbole. What I meant to get across is that TC is interested in writing about YC companies because YC acts as a good filter for all the stuff that comes across Arrington's inbox.

shayan 19y ago
you are laughing as if you are very confident about your answer ... well I am not as sure as you are what exactly PG does ... but I doubt TC calls up PG or anyone else for that matter on daily basis to find out whats new... and maybe PG doesn't do it but a lot of other VC's do (check this interview video with Michael Arrington about how to get on TC http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/11/how_to_get_in_t.html http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/11/how_to_get_in_t.html ) ... if I am going to work with YC I would expect them to help me with these kind of stuff ... I mean that is the whole point of YC (don't start with saying they are not a PR team and they are not there to create news for you, I know that) .. but the way YC is structured (which I think is great) is to mostly give you advice and support ... And this kind of support could mean more than anything else to help you launch your business, create traction and gain users, specially with Disqus that is late in the game, and needs the support of bloggers, and has many competition, and there is only a need of one of these services on each blog, and it has been proven that its not so easy to get dominance in this field
- jey 19y ago
  "you are laughing as if you are very confident about your answer" FWIW, brezina is a cofounder of YC-funded Xobni, so he has the inside scoop.
  - shayan 19y ago
    oh thats interesting ... so maybe he should be kind enough to answer the questions and give us his insight!!! I would find that more useful and interesting :) and congrats to him as well for xobni they have done a great job
shayan 19y ago
I see your point now and we are in agreement ... I kind of mentioned that myself in the last sentences too