TechCrunch articles worth less to a startup than expected

This is TOTAL bull! Just curious: are you being paid by PPP?<p>While DEPENDING on TC coverage for the success of your start-up is a bad plan, I can vouch that TC coverage 4 days after launch put us AT LEAST three months ahead of our ambitious growth plans.<p><i>SOLELY</i> a result of TC coverage did those bizdev emails start coming in from folks very high up at mainstream corporations. <p>

You can read my take on this specific post here: <a href="http://www.zaid360.com/?p=67">http://www.zaid360.com/?p=67</a><p>I can understand you may want to become the next Arrington by the nature of your blog. But please don't do it at the expense of obvious bad advise at a place entrepreneurs hang out.<p>-Zaid

There is some good editorial content that sites like TC have, but there are some nitpicks as with all these sites. news.yc should be all a casual reader needs for his fix of startup buzz.