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Why the tech press is ignoring Zulily's huge IPO

7 pointsby creativityhurtsover 11 years ago

2 comments

pedalpeteover 11 years ago
This ignores possibly one of the biggest reasons nobody is talking about it, they don&#x27;t have any PR.<p>Reporters don&#x27;t go get news anymore, it comes to them, that&#x27;s the way the industry works.<p>At the same time, it&#x27;s amazing that a company like this could do so well and fly under the radar.
megfitzover 11 years ago
I work with another tech startup in the parenting&#x2F;baby space and it&#x27;s hard to do PR for this space. This is especially true because there aren&#x27;t may PR&#x2F;comms people with experiences and contacts that cross parenting and tech and in my experience, people with PR experience in the parenting space often rely on a physical product to promote and send as samples to parenting journalists, tv shows, etc. As a tech company, there&#x27;s no freebie product to push. And on the tech side, despite the fact that pretty much everyone knows a parent or child, this area is still considered niche which makes it less interesting to tech press than something that appears to be a service that could appeal to anyone.