Comment by minimaxir | Hacker News Reader

Comment by minimaxir | Hacker News Reader

If your startup is targeting influencers at blogs, why do you have pictures of Michael Arrington at TechCrunch and Arianna Huffington at Huffington Post, both of which have had nothing to do with their respective blogs for some time?

I also found it suspicious that you have reference to "as featured in" but it's an image and not a link, so I did a little digging. For your The Next Web feature, all Publicize has is participation in a pitching contest (http://thenextweb.com/voice/2015/04/14/all-75-startups-that-...) and an guest posts written by the CEO (http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2014/11/22/tech-reporter-... and http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2014/12/13/5-common-mista...). Neither would count as a feature.

Additionally, why do you have a Y Combinator logo under "our successes?" Having success with batch companies is a bit different than having success with the parent entity.

Despite the nitpicking in this thread, I've only heard positive things about Conrad Egusa and Publicize. I heard about him through YC, where other people recommended him. He gave me some useful advice, and if you're looking for a PR company, I'd definitely check out Publicize.

author here. the reason we used michael arrington, ariana huffington and matt marshall is because they are the founders of the respective publications (not because of their current involvement).

for the featured in, you are right (it actually goes back to when we were expecting publicize to be featured in a tnw article as our design was being implemented and this was pushed back). because we've only been included & written guest articles, we will change this to as seen in.

update: we've fixed this to "as seen in".

about your comment on the y combinator logo, i do see your point. the aim wasn't to be deceptive, the reason we included the logos of some of the accelerators is because for the founder institute we've worked with a bunch of fi founders + multiple publicize team members are mentors there, with 500 startups i'm a global mentor there + having worked with companies, and for yc we've worked with a number of its companies. however if this comes off as misleading that we work directly with y combinator / others, then it should be removed.

update: we just removed that bar at the bottom (so the logos are no longer there). thanks for the feedback.

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