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by ktothemc 14y ago
Send us an e-mail with answers to the eight questions above. Put my name "kim" in the subject line and send it to tips at techcrunch dot com. I will find it. We do cover some health and biotech (particularly if it's something that could be
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by ktothemc 14y ago
TechCrunch is "too mainstream"?
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by ktothemc 14y ago
We cover lots of companies that haven't taken funding or (even launched yet) but they need to have an interesting founding team or concept. I covered a company the other week from the FB engineer who built Presence (hasn't launched) and ano
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by ktothemc 14y ago
I disagree. The point is to always be strategic about why you want press and what you hope it will achieve. For some companies, TC is very relevant for acquiring customers. For others, it serves as validation for prospective investors and e
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by ktothemc 14y ago
Btw, this is for the basic company story. We also do trend, feature, or random culture stories, for which the bar is very different. :)
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by ktothemc 14y ago
If another outlet has published it before, we are not inclined to rehash them. Maybe Mashable will, but we won't unless you can provide super interesting, exclusive information (eg a funding round, new product, key hire, passing a traction
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by ktothemc 14y ago
Yes, this is true. Our best stuff comes from trusted referrals.
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by ktothemc 14y ago
DO NOT COLD E-MAIL US with a single, vague paragraph. It will go into the bowels of oblivion into tips@techcrunch.com where we get 95% crazy and 4% decent and 1% awesome information. You should find the writer that most appropriately fits w
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by ktothemc 14y ago
Um. Read the WHOLE story. I point out that their comparisons are flawed.
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by ktothemc 15y ago
That was an April Fool's joke that I guess we've kept as a category. The new TC team has very little to do with the weird, navel-gazing BS of last year. The new editor, Eric, actually went through YC six years ago. Our philosophy is more st
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by ktothemc 15y ago
I just changed the tense, so it's clearer.
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by ktothemc 15y ago
Your comment ironically reveals why we need to have stories like this. "The key difference is that most of tech news is about a group of 10 people who happen to be men...." It's not a group of 10 people who happen to be men. It's more like
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by ktothemc 15y ago
TC has written a dedicated post to virtually every single YC startup from every batch for the last several years. We did about a dozen posts on Demo Day alone this week. So writing one article that points out that YC is more diverse than
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by ktothemc 15y ago
I also think that Y Combinator's application process and brand is so meritocratic that it deflects the effect you're talking about.
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by ktothemc 15y ago
@jlees That is why I have not written a "women in tech" article in six years. But I think the benefit of showing that there are women doing interesting things at Y Combinator to other prospective women founders outweighs the downside that y
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by ktothemc 15y ago
I write about guys every single day!!! Multiple times a day on TC, in fact!!!
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by ktothemc 15y ago
This is push-and-pull. It's step-by-step. We don't get to the magical destination you're talking about immediately. If this generation of female entrepreneurs happens to be more focused on female target markets, that's fine by me if it mean
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by ktothemc 15y ago
She was not in the latest batch.
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by ktothemc 15y ago
Yeah, I understand. That's why I normally hate writing about women in technology. However, I think a lot of would-be founders or applicants to YC are probably put off by its more male-oriented image. So if nothing else, this dispels that st
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by ktothemc 15y ago
"The Women in the Y Combinator Batch" is a less readable, viral headline. I think it's sort of obvious from the first paragraph or two that I'm not talking about partners, just the most recent class.