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Ask HN: What are some suggestions to improve 30startups.com?

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Hey guys,

I started 30startups.com a little over 5 five weeks ago so that I could stay up to date and involved with startups. I want to be able to help people gain some publicity for their services they build and hopefully bring together founders and investors so that both parties can benefit. My question is: what you guys think about it and what I can do better?

Suggestions on what to write about would be great.

Do you want to read about startups and what kind of impact they are making? Do you want interviews with startups to hear their stories? Do you want entrepreneur resources and advice? Do you want to learn more about VCs and angel investors and how to position your startup for funding?

Any help would be awesome.

http://30startups.com

Personally I like the Startup School posts much better than the startup company stories. The companies look like a lot of me-too concepts and you don't explain why you picked them or why their strategy or feature set is better. Blogs work when people present new ideas or ideas that were not easy to discover. Ideas not companies. I'll be using the "lifecycle of an idea" in my entrepreneurship class on Monday. Maybe it will generate some readers for you.

Personally, when I see yet another blog about startups, I won't subscribe to it unless it is very different from what I'm already getting. So how is it different from the popular blogs in this space?

The reason I started the blog was because I started to get sick of the larger more popular startup blogs. They focused too much on the big deals with companies raising millions of dollars in later rounds of financing. They also focused on larger sites like Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, etc and the new features they are adding.

I couldn't find any blogs that focused on the small guys raising seed funding, so I started my own. I want to offer interviews and insights from smaller startups (less than 10 people) and stories of how they went from an idea to building a company.

Cool. If you're focusing on the smaller stuff, then make that clear up-front. That might keep me interested.

also, anyone know how to make a clickable link?

Clickable: http://30startups.com

(just paste it in a comment)

good to know. thanks!

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