Are you sure about this? "Every post" is a strong statement.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Mr. Arrington is an implicit investor in YC, through the Angel Fund, and Techcrunch gave the YC startups a ton of coverage lately. The few articles that I read in the early going made no reference to this fact.
YC startups have been given lots of press for years. You may be right, I don't know the specifics of the terms but YC startups have always had a lot of coverage because they're YC startups.
I've seen far more bias from the mainstream press tech reporters towards certain startups. All these journalists seem to be hired by a number of startups. Seems like some are just reporting to help their career.
No they don't, and even if they wanted to they can't without it causing further problem (because of startups being in stealth, the disclosure itself giving favourable coverage to the startup).
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By the way, yes they do. Every post Arrington will say he or someone at TC is an investor. Not that it's too regular.
Are you sure about this? "Every post" is a strong statement.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Mr. Arrington is an implicit investor in YC, through the Angel Fund, and Techcrunch gave the YC startups a ton of coverage lately. The few articles that I read in the early going made no reference to this fact.
YC startups have been given lots of press for years. You may be right, I don't know the specifics of the terms but YC startups have always had a lot of coverage because they're YC startups.
I've seen far more bias from the mainstream press tech reporters towards certain startups. All these journalists seem to be hired by a number of startups. Seems like some are just reporting to help their career.
No they don't, and even if they wanted to they can't without it causing further problem (because of startups being in stealth, the disclosure itself giving favourable coverage to the startup).
I wrote an article about it here: http://blog.imranghory.org/michael-arringtons-unsolvable-con...
That's not good enough. That fact that it's accepted is a problem.