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By: Will Conley

Will Conley — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 08:36:22 +0000

The God’s honest truth is that blowhards always win. We’re wolves eternally searching for that next Alpha Male. IT SUCKS BUT IT’S TRUE, so if TechCrunch is smart (oh, and it is) it will not only maintain but intensify the snark, sarcasm, cynicism, and anti-intellectual bear-baiting, and I will be watching closely to see who comes out on top so I can align myself, cynically, with that next Alpha, forever and ever, amen. Animal wins, man loses. FOREVER, did I mention that? Forever.

By: Nick Gonzalez

Nick Gonzalez — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:44:42 +0000

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It’s called HugsOnline. We plan to be the peapod of hugs with a wide distribution network delivering hugs to our customers in response to real time requests.

The business model is built on unicorns, puppies, lollipops, and fairies. It’s going to be the next Google.

- Keep up the good fight.

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Howard Lindzon » Google, Gold and Oil...Related After All — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:40:54 +0000

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By: hyokon

hyokon — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:12:47 +0000

It’s your choice. A big and characterless media or a small and cult-like niche. I, like other young consultants at McKinsey, BCG and Bain, used to believe this is an analytical issue, where there is an NPV answer. No. This is about what you want TC (or even you) to be. Good luck.

By: CoryS

CoryS — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:44:45 +0000

The real question, Mike, is whether you can (or care to) make the jump with TC from early adopters to the mass market. With Web 2 feeling tired and a lot more of TC’s focus on major players (Yahoo, M$ and Facebook seem to garner the majority of today’s posts) and post-series A funded companies, what made TC unique (=information of the under reported, early seed start ups) has been marginalized and, along with it, a bit of the mystique of seeing under the hood of Silicon Valley.

Put simply, if you’re going after a tech version of the Wall Street Journal, good for you, if not, then I’ve most enjoyed TC’s work covering those little unheard of gems that haven’t even released a Beta. Sounds like you might, too.

Regardless, it is a fun wave.

By: Darren Stuart

Darren Stuart — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:19:38 +0000

I actaully think a spin off blog just for startups is a great idea and would get a large audeince.

I have to admit, I have tired of the constant news on large companies and what your mates are doing (also maybe some disclosure if you are friends with the people who are runnning the company wouldn’t hurt).

Also when posting what Robert had for breakfast maybe you could use this blog instead.

I know its a hard to please everyone and many of us forget its YOUR blog.

By: Ian Bell

Ian Bell — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:39:14 +0000

He has some points, but I don’t think it has 100% merit. I love the TechCrunch content for the most part and read it daily. You introduce me to new companies, give a brief overview of what you think about their product, let me know how they received funding (if any) and I think CrunchBase is a good compliment.

The user comments are really getting out of hand, they are not productive in most cases and there is really too much flaming etc going on. Here are some community ideas I would suggest:

1) I would love to see the ability to rate user comments, or users in general. If there is a person that is constantly posting garbage on the site, I want to rate that person’s feedback on a 1-10 scale, maybe as “reputation” that stays with that person. The higher the reputation, the closer they are to the top of the comments on a post. I.E. most useful comments come first and the spam crap is at the bottom, or hidden and can be expanded.

2) Create a user account system where new users have to be approved, and can be banned, much like a traditional forum. There are enough readers on TechCrunch where you can ban some of the spammers and still retain a large amount of posts. This will ensure that quality comments and users remain, and will ultimately attract conversation from more intelligent readers.

3) What about user reviews? Let those same quality/approved users rate the companies you are talking about as well. Do they think the product is good, and will the company have a chance at success?

These are just some off-the-cuff ideas that I think will help encourage a healthy community and add some more value to the site.

What you are going through are typical growing pains. There is no reason to give up. Just harness it and shape it how you see fit. This is a GOOD problem to have.

Best of luck.

Ian