[il]

Why do you care about TechCrunch coverage? It's a great blog, but it's just a blog. TC coverage won't make or break you. You'll probably get more traffic from this submission to HN than a TC post.

[olalonde]

> TC coverage won't make or break you.

I've often heard the opposite (in reference to Twitter's success for example).

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/05/business/media/michael-arr...

http://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/Mee...

Perhaps things have changed since then.

[il]

You can prove this empirically. TC publishes dozens of posts a day- are there dozens of billion dollar companies being created daily?

[cofejay]

True and totally agree with you, end of the day we just when ahead and picked a name.

[taskstrike]

Now they will have both, so I would say they are pretty smart.