TechCrunch - After 5 Months

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1. Alex
   

   November 10th, 2005 at 11:52 pm

   Congrats on your success Mike! I remember stumbling onto TechCrunch back in late June and it had a noticeably different vibe about whats going on right now. Good luck for future growth, just promise you wont sell out to AOL!

2. Michael Arrington
   

   November 11th, 2005 at 12:08 am

   Alex, Thank you. You are one of the very few readers that have been around since June. My writing has changed a lot, due in large part to reading much better writers’ stuff - people like Dave Winer, Robert Scoble, Rob Hoff, Heather Green, Steve Rubel, John Battelle, Jeff Jarvis, Fred Wilson, Dan Farber, Richard MacManus, Jeff Clavier, Barb Dybwad, Niall Kennedy, Fred Oliveira Jeff Nolan…

3. Paul D
   

   November 11th, 2005 at 12:30 am

   I’m a NetNewsWire user myself, but I’d be curious to see your Safari RSS stats.

4. Michael Arrington
   

   November 11th, 2005 at 12:33 am

   Paul, Safari is about 3%.

5. Mike
   

   November 11th, 2005 at 1:24 am

   How do your reader stats compare to your daily visitor stats?

   I always wonder what % of the content gets consumed via RSS readers vs. people visiting your site. Of course, this statistic would not be completely accurate but the ratio could be interesting.

   Great job on your blog! I don’t know where you find the time. Mike

6. Richard MacManus
   

   November 11th, 2005 at 2:25 am

   Great round-up of stats Mike and congrats on the outstanding resource TechCrunch has become!

   And you’re kicking my ass in RSS subscribers now

7. David Pooxi
   

   November 11th, 2005 at 4:28 am

   Congratulations,

   Your blog really rocks

   David Pooxi

8. Jeff Rogers
   

   November 11th, 2005 at 5:08 am

   Techcrunch is popular because Mike covers technology the way it suppose to be done.

   Too many tech writers (they know who they are) are nothing more than a PR arm of Google and they have no credibility. Others pretend to be objective and unbiased about their employer (whatever…)

   Mike covers the tech startups by profiling their business plan and people running the operation. He brings life and reality to the fact there are innovative people out there that mainstream tech media won’t cover. He attracts people like me who wants to hear the story of startups. Who cares if they succeed or fail? The point is they are living the dream of pursuing an opportunity.

   I rather read Mike anyday than some MSM tech writer that believes only Yahoo or Google or Steve Jobs deserve headlines.

9. eric goldstein
   

   November 11th, 2005 at 6:58 am

   Congrats on 5 months. Regarding your point about the most popular browser for you audience being Firefox, since we released a version of Clipmarks that supports Firefox we have noticed the same thing. Over half of our members use Firefox.

10. Ian McAllister
    

    November 11th, 2005 at 7:45 am

    Congrats, good to see that quality content begets traffic. TechCrunch is one of four blogs I recommend my team read to keep up to speed on new companies and general Web 2.0 stuff.

11. Zoli Erdos
    

    November 11th, 2005 at 8:12 am

    “I think this is a reflection of general growth in the blogosphere, and the fact that I am writing about all of the interesting new companies that are popping up on the web.”  More the latter, Michael. You obviously must be doing something exceptionally well … noone gets up to 9000 readers in 5 months Actually, if you look at the Technorati Top 100, they typically have 2-3K feed readers at most.. .which is another argument to say, it’s the readers, not the links that truely measure the “weight” of a blog. Congrats!

12. Michael Arrington
    

    November 11th, 2005 at 8:17 am

    Ian, what are the other three blogs you recommend? How do I get ALL microsoft employees to read techcrunch?

13. Ian McAllister
    

    November 11th, 2005 at 8:27 am

    Read/Write Web - largely a digest of other blog posts but a good jumping off point

    A VC/Union Square Ventures - I love Fred Wilson’s style and think his opinions are pretty spot-on

    Those blogs, and TechCrunch, are good entry points to discover the other relevant blogs.

    How do you get all Microsoft employees to read it? Keep writing good stuff. Read/comment/link to other MSFT employee blogs where appropriate. But mostly keep writing good stuff.

14. Dorrian
    

    November 11th, 2005 at 10:12 am

    Awesome work. We know it’s Keith who actually writes everything, but we think it’s fair that you get the credit because you host such cool park-where-you-want kind of parties Congratulations on making something so useful and important. Go search “new great editors” on Google. You can and probably will take issue with some of my conclusions given your love for Memeorandum, and your blog doesn’t necessarily fit the profile I describe. Nevertheless, it seems clear that you are among, and prove the need for, the new great editors.

15. Michael Arrington
    

    November 11th, 2005 at 10:25 am

    Dorrian, that is a really interesting post (http://dorrianporter.typepad.com/silicon_valley_himalayan_/2005/08/why_are_we_forg.html). Wrong, but insightful.

16. Ken Leeder
    

    November 11th, 2005 at 10:42 am

    Congrats Mike — your success is well deserved. In my view, TechCrunch has become mandatory reading for anyone interested in understanding Web2.0

17. larry
    

    November 11th, 2005 at 11:02 am

    Congrats on your mini milestone and keep up the good work!

    Did you know that Technorati says Techcrunch is worth a cool $729,000?

    http://www.business-opportunit.....crunch.com

18. Brian Del Vecchio
    

    November 11th, 2005 at 11:56 am

    Go, Mike!

19. david parmet
    

    November 11th, 2005 at 12:54 pm

    Mike - congrats on the milestone. I’ve been here since July and it gets better every day.

20. Mandy
    

    November 11th, 2005 at 2:36 pm

    Mike: Well done on your blog’s success!

21. Puneet Gupta
    

    November 11th, 2005 at 4:05 pm

    Mike:
    Keep up the good work.
    It’s been a pleasure getting to know you.

22. Clarence Wooten
    

    November 11th, 2005 at 9:59 pm

    Congrats Mike. Since I stumbled onto Techcrunch in June… I have not stopped reading it daily. It has been fun to watch your blog grow in popularity — leaving us little guys behind Keep up the good writing and reporting… I know that at your 1-year anniversery, 9k daily readers will seem like peanuts

23. Oliver Starr
    

    November 12th, 2005 at 1:24 am

    Mike,

    I was really tempted to come up with some witty comment but sometimes the simple truth says it best; you’ve done an amazing job…perhaps the most meteoric rise to blog-god-dom in the history of the medium.

    As a fellow blogger, I know something of the difficulty in identifying new and interesting things to write about on a consistent basis, particularly when one has intentionally limited the focus to something highly specific as you have with TechCrunch.

    In such a short time what you have accomplished is truly impressive. I can think of no greater complement than to tell you that yours is one of a very small list of blogs that I make a point of reading every day.

    Congratulations!

    Oliver Starr “stitch”
    http://www.mobile-weblog.com

24. Chandu
    

    November 12th, 2005 at 4:13 am

    Congrats & Keep up the good work mike.

    I read a article today on the register here http://www.theregister.co.uk/2.....t_answers/

    Which is raising lot of questions about Web 2.0.

    Can you post an article about what it(Web 2.0) is all about and what is the future of it.

25. Chris
    

    November 12th, 2005 at 2:43 pm

    Great stats for only being at it for 5 months. When you first started TechCrunch, what did you do to get the word out? Keep up the great work.

26. Michael Arrington
    

    November 12th, 2005 at 3:11 pm

    Chris - Write good content about stuff that you love. Readers will find you.

    Oh, and hire Fred Oliveira at webreakstuff.com to redesign your site. He’s expensive but he’s one of the web’s top designers.

27. Frederico Oliveira
    

    November 12th, 2005 at 3:32 pm

    Chris - The thing with Techcrunch is that Mike did a great job at filling a gap in the new web space - he connects users, entrepreneurs and investors under the same roof. What was a niche in June is now a widely recognized “era” of the web, and techcrunch is rapidly establishing itself as the definitive coverage website for “web 2.0″, even if you don’t agree with the term.

    The combination between great writing and properly organized content (a news oriented layout helps) is key to success. It is not the miraculous formula for the web, but it seems to have worked.

    I am lucky enough to be working with mike in more than one project, and he’s admitedly the hard type, but one thing we have in common is the will to actually get things done.

    Keep it up, Mike.

    (And your comment on #27 is midly exaggerated - I’m not at the web’s top). I can only be happy that I get to produce good work by working with great teams. Still, thank you. I really appreciate it)

28. hamlet
    

    November 13th, 2005 at 8:51 am

    Congrats. I just got on Techcruch boat ,it’s amazing and will be daily necessity.Thanks for your great work.

    BTW,I use http://www.netvibes.com from Firefox.

29. Lee
    

    November 13th, 2005 at 12:56 pm

    Hi Michael,

    I would love to talk to you via email about a few things, could you please shoot me an email saying hello?

    Thank you

30. Shai Tsur
    

    November 13th, 2005 at 11:31 pm

    Hi Mike,

    Congratulations on your first five months. As someone who has begun to focus on the Web 2.0 world in a professional capacity, I find your blog to be a great resource and one of the first sites I look at in the morning.

    Keep up the great work!