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Paul Graham and the folks over at YCombinator have done much to reenergize early-stage entrepreneurship and encourage the creation of many new and innovative startups including DropBox, Posterous, Loopt, Justin.TV, Scribd and many others. They also gave us Hacker News , which for me was a welcome addition for discovering tech stories.
I reached out to Michael after their surprising day at the top of Hacker News during early September. The innocuous post, which was simply titled " Divshot " generated over 110 comments and was awarded nearly 200 points by Hacker News' notoriously jaded readers. According to Michael, the Hacker News exposure was completely unplanned.
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When I first started writing this blog several years ago I had less followers than you have right now. But the realist in me knew I couldn’t write daily nor could I convince you to think to check out my blog with regularity. Sometimes I just scan and other times it serves as a launching-off point for me to digest the daily news.
You help them on stories, act as a source, develop real relationships, read their stories and eventually when you have news they’re more willing to have a conversation. It will take them time to know your company, socialize your story with the right journalists, wait until those journalists are gearing up to write relevant stories, etc.
I next write a paragraph to describe what I mean by each comment. Next time write it down when it happened. Don’t have your staff write their own reviews. If you don’t have the time, insights and responsibility to write your direct reports annual evaluations (read: one time per year!!) Put it in writing.
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You help them on stories, act as a source, develop real relationships, read their stories and eventually when you have news they’re more willing to have a conversation. The reality is that a journalist who’s writing a story about you – a relatively unknown entity – wants to hear directly from the founders and/or the CEO.
We are excited to share the news that we have raised $650 million across three vehicles to allow us to continue making investments for many years ahead. In our best-performing companies we often write follow-on checks totaling up to $10–15 million out of our early-stage fund.
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.” Here’s what I mean … Let’s start with what it takes for a journalist to want to write a story. Do I have an “angle” from which to write the story (first company to do X, company does biggest X, consumer behavior is doing X)? So how exactly do you break out then? And they back it up with data.
He had just received notice from a major media organization that they were going to run a very negative news story. The story ran in the print edition of a major news journal. ” If people had seen the article on the home page of the news outlets website it no doubt would have been Tweeted. Their PR firm was ready.
Drop-off on the first page of an application is bad news. Profile Blurbs and Writing Prompts Let’s look at our job matching site in more detail. This gives Mark more control over the process, without requiring him to write much, and gives the LLM more to work with. This isn’t just our opinion - our startup metrics prove it!
But, they could not write, and did not know what to write from the travel perspective. Every one of those writers has a byline and a bio, and are paid twice a week at a pretty decent rate for that writing or assignment. They couldn't find enough people to write the content they needed, at the quality they need.
I started by writing 3-4 times / week. I didn’t have any grand ambitions other than to write, share ideas and try to build awareness of who I am through my thoughts. As with tonight I got my kids to bed, did some email, caught 30 minutes of the news then sat down to type. I’ve kept it up for 2 years.
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. - Journalists don’t know enough about your company before the show, don’t have time for proper research, and you will be competing for their time afterward with 49+ other companies that want them to write about you. - If you’re Yammer , Mint or RedBeacon (all winners) you’re knighted with wonderful coverage.
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But it’s PacMan.&# I forgot to get him on record on the show, but Gregg writes all the lyrics for the big presidential videos they’ve done – you can see where the humor of JibJab comes from. They never did any PR or marketing to get their videos to first get shown on the news during the 2000 election.
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And it was the first word I muttered when I heard the news tonight. I’ll write you an angel check, then. We still had so many more times to spend together. I loved this image I saw posted by Andy Rankin. Because this is the one word that was not in your vocabulary. I remember when we met years ago. I know, I know. Yes, Jody.
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They just consume Twitter when they’re hungry for a conversation or some news right now. I’ll finish writing around 1am and that’s a dumb time to Tweet because few people in the US are online. You’l see from this morning’s logs that my post today was featured prominently on Hacker News.
Guy even gives him a nod in his index, indicating that thought leaders often assess a new book by flipping to the index to see if their name is included. At the beginning of the index, Guy writes, “I hope Robert Cialdini checks this index.” Deliver Bad News Early. Like King, his writing style is breezy and engaging.
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2: As expected at least one person accused me of writing this post because I want to see lower valuations. The price of public stocks change instantly in reaction to news that is perceived to affect the future value of that company. I acknowledged this in the article. You can be pissed off, but I don’t set prices.
Have a column against each competitor for “recent news&# where you have a one paragraph update on your competitors movements. We need to be sure we’re not surprising our partners with negative news and want to share the positive stuff also. Make sure when you write it you assume this. I would send this out quarterly.
So I thought I’d write a piece on how to not suck when you give a presentation. I spoke about this yesterday on Fox Business News. Don’t write sentences on the – only key words to help you remember what you’re going to say. It is not sufficient to write yourself notes and read them before hand.
DO capitalize on the moment in time while you’re still part of the news cycle. Just don’t believe what they write about you. Write a blog post or a journal about how you feel while you’re there. People want to feel like they’re at the cutting edge. Don’t believe their hype either.
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