THE VIDEO SHELF · startup press relations
Mike Arrington at Startup School 08
Mike Arrington of TechCrunch speaks at Startup School 2008 about how to get press coverage for a startup and how to respond to it.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as practical advice on dealing with tech press, whenever someone asks how to pitch TechCrunch and similar outlets.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- startupschool
- Topic
- startup press relations
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intro
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2009–2020
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
Mike Arrington's talk from startup school on dealing with press is quite good: [VIDEO] It's not really geared towards the mainstream press, but a good watch nonetheless.
wheels on Hacker News · 2009-04
In Ask YC: How do you get your press?Somewhat related, I found Arrington's talk at Startup School '08 to be pretty good for getting an idea of how he views the startup tech press. [VIDEO]
pbh on Hacker News · 2011-09
In Michael Arrington launching venture fundWatch this video: Mike Arrington speaks at Startup School 2008 about how to get, and how to respond to press for your startup. [VIDEO]
SuperChihuahua on Hacker News · 2012-05
In Ask HN: Best practices when pitching your startup to Techcrunch, Mashable etc?
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.