User:Notnoteworthy

My favorite tags are { notability }, { advert }, { orphan }, { afd } and { proposed deletion } within the startup industry as it is obvious many young companies, the people employed by them, or the network of blogs that rehash their press releases have decided Wikipedia is a tool for SEO.

Blogs such as TechCrunch, Mashable, ReadWriteWeb, TheNextWeb, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, PandoDaily, Business Insider, GigaOm etc routinely post funding announcements and minor updates from venture capital funded startups in their general course of business. These publications may have vested interests and share investors with the fledgling companies they write about.

In short, these are for the most part biased sources with their own agends, if they are the only or core sources a company has it is likely not a noteworthy company at this point.

Conflicts of interest
A TechCrunch investment offshoot heavily funded by TechCrunch parent company AOL called CrunchFund by TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington is part of an intricate, publicized, web of COIs that call into question the validity of TechCrunch as a reputable source and proof of notability.


 * "Many of the top firms in venture capital, which Mr. Arrington also covers on TechCrunch — including Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Greylock Partners — have invested in Mr. Arrington’s fund. Accel, Benchmark Capital and Andreessen Horowitz have also invested.", NYTimes.

What makes a good startup article
References that are diverse in source and subject and especially industry publications for whatever industry you are in are a very good thing to have.

Are you noteworthy yet
Is the article you're writing / have written primarily about your investors and fundraising?