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by jgervin 5523 days ago
Not sure if it still holds true today, but in the past with some blog tech writers, you needed to submit your pitch something like this.

Hello, <insert info about startup here>.

Thanks, <insert name>

P.S. attached is an Apple Macbook Pro, cheers.

1 comments

In this case I think it's a bit simpler. GroupMe was born at TechCrunch Disrupt Hack Day 2010, and is probably the biggest success story of that event by an order of magnitude. Hence, they got a lot of TC coverage early on.