How I Make $2,000 Every Year Without Doing Very Much. 101 Ways to Make Money Online - Clickfire. Making money online is easy… well not as easy as the pic suggests :) Think you’ve got to be a web genius to make money on the Internet? Think again. There are tons of ways to make money on the Internet and here are just a few to chew on. The “MMO” possibilities are infinite on the world wide web. Pick one and make it happen. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Platforms and Two-Sided Networks. How To Get Our Attention, A Case Study. Many a post has come before this one on the special adventure that is pitching TechCrunch. And while most of our writers have their own preferences (Please don’t call my cell before 7 a.m.
PDT unless you’re Google, and you’re buying Twitter. And you’ve made and will bring me breakfast in bed.) there’s definitely a right and wrong way to ping tips@techcrunch if you’re a startup hungry for coverage. The following email thankfully fit into the former category. On Jul 29, 2010, at 11:00 PM, Mark Nielsen wrote:TechCruch Team,Another late night, we’re tired, hopped up on caffeine, malnourished and could probably use a shower…but man do we love this startup S#!
Step 1. You know, just like with almost everything else in life, once you’ve got the “be interesting” thing down, that’s pretty much it. How I Pitched @TechCrunch And 13 Ways To Get Press When You Launch Your Startup. I outlined 16 must have customer acquisitions techniques for startups in a post last month.
One of the most important techniques comes in the form of Public Relations and I think it’s important enough to warrant its own article. PR is how you launch companies, build buzz, and get valuable attention that ranks well above the noise of buying advertising. For example Apple only aired the 1984 ad once, but received over five million dollars of free publicity due to everyone talking + airing the ad again on the news. What are some blogs and sites, a new startup should send press releases to. Must Read Quora Threads for Startups. For entrepreneurs, Quora has become the new Hacker News: the go-to-place to glean great, rich information related to startups – culture, technology, product, design, history, financing, etc.
It’s all there and much of it is outstanding. My goal is help build a list of must read Quora threads for entrepreneurs and startups. This is by no means a comprehensive list – so I encourage you to share threads that are important / helpful to you and I will supplement the list. In no particular order, here is a list of Quora threads that I think are critically important to startups. I have tried to include content relevant to all avenues of entrepreneurship: from hiring to product to financing… and everything in between. How not to get on covered on TechCrunch.
I launched my startup officially last week (Eureka Science News - - intelligent news aggregator, fully automated, similar to techmeme and Google News, but with full content on the site - check out the /about page if you want to know more).
I got amazingly positive feedback from it; got covered on the front page of Drupal with a full write-uo on how I built the site, in details( Drupal is the open-source CMS I built my site with, so it was my way of giving back to the community. After that, I figured 'hey! Maybe I actually have a chance with TechCrunch! '. In my mind TC covers only very high profile, tech-related startups, so at first I didn't think that they would be interested by a science news site started part-time by a PhD student in retrovirology ;) So I submitted my story via the form on their contact page. This time they answered promptly; I was very excited! So don't make the same mistake, submit to TechCrunch FIRST via the newstip email link, not the contact form! Startup Traction: How do social sites (e.g., Hunch, Foursquare, Reddit, Digg) go from 1 to 100k users. Startup Advice and Strategy: What are the best productivity tools for entrepreneurs.