13 + 1 top sites to submit startup for initial traction and coverage
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All startups face the same issue at their beginning. Questions like “how to get our first customers?” or “how to get at least 300 signups?” are bothering every startup founder. Of course, the most important thing to achieve this is to have great idea & great product. However, a lot of startup traction can be created by having your startup featured on popular startup blog/magazines/sites. I have decided to create a list of top sites, where you can submit your startup to get some coverageTRANSCRIPT
For Initial traction and Coverage
13 + 1 Top Sites To Submit Your Startup
By Marek Novotny, founder of StartUPpers.org Link to original article
Each Startups Dilemma
1. How to get our first customers
2. How to get our first signups
3. How to create startup traction
To solve the dilemma you need
1. Great Idea
2. Great Product
3. Great Team
4. Online Coverage
And of course many other things. But here comes the list of 13 top sites to pitch your startup to get some online coverage
13. Feed My App
Page Rank 5
Facebook Likes 2 071
Twitter Followers 2 165
• Great site to submit your project if you are working on mobile or web app.
• Founded in 2007 • Great place to make your first step in
promoting your startup.
12. Techli
Page Rank 5
Facebook Likes 1 554
Twitter Followers 8 750
• Techli delivers news and in-depth editorial on the technologies, businesses and ideas that are changing the way we live, work, and play.
• Founder has quite some experience from working for startups in Silicon Valley, some of them he founded himself, so probably he knows what he is writing about.
11. Betali.st
Page Rank 4
Facebook Likes 840
Twitter Followers 9 513
• Founded in December 2010• To be featured on betali.st, you have to be in
closed beta version, or even before that. • IF your product is already out there, your
chance to be featured here is small. • Featuring on this site gets you 100-200
signups.
10. Betabait
Page Rank 4
Facebook Likes 377
Twitter Followers 1 825
• Works very similarly as Betali.st• Betabait tries to connect startups which are
still in beta, with some beta-testers. • Very young project, launched in 2011
9. YoungUpStarts
Page Rank 4
Facebook Likes ?
Twitter Followers 1 117
• Stories about rather small businesses and ideas that make this world better.
• Part of Singapore-based Upstart Publishing. Founded and run by Daniel Goh, who is at the same time owner of The Good Beer Company.
8. StartupMeme
Page Rank 5
Facebook Likes 2 426
Twitter Followers 5 911
• Founded in 2007• StartupMeme managed to catch the startup
wave in the right time. • Focused mainly on Social Startups• Run by Mr. Sardar Mohkim Khan.
7. KillerStartups
Page Rank 6
Facebook Likes 3 747
Twitter Followers 8 936
• “Tapping the wisdom of crowds to find the next internet big thing.”
• KillerStartups believe, that the next BIG THING (next Youtube, next Myspace) is going to be somewhere on their site.
• If you believe the same about your project, you should not miss this opportunity, and pitch them.
6. LifeHacker
Page Rank 7
Facebook Likes 492 135
Twitter Followers 550 174
• Award-winning daily blog that features tips, shortcuts, and downloads that help you work and live smarter and more efficiently.
• “Don’t live to geek; geek to live”. • If your mobile app is a smart way how to hack
our lives, then you must be featured here.
5. MakeUseOf
Page Rank 7
Facebook Likes 193 508
Twitter Followers 38 447
• Booming website, which welcomes startup submissions.
• Focuses on cool websites, computer tips, and downloads that make you more productive.
• Launched already in 2006 t• 20M pageviews a month.
4. ReadWriteWeb
Page Rank 7
Facebook Likes 69 207
Twitter Followers 1 220 042
• The “oldest” member on our list• founded by Richard MacManus in 2003 as a
personal blog.• Since then it grew to astronomical size being
one of the most respected technology site out there.
• 3 days ago (12/oct/2012) it was announced, that Richard has left RWW to start a new chapter in his life. We can wish him nothing else than good luck..
3. Venture Beat
Page Rank 7
Facebook Likes 124 146
Twitter Followers 107 444
• One of the big 4, where you must be extremely awesome to get to their page.
• VB covers all kind of technology articles and explains what technology means for us.
• They started also VentureBeatProfiles, where you can discover and share opinions about startups – we strongly recommend you to create account there.
2. Mashable
Page Rank 8
Facebook Likes 1 003 465
Twitter Followers 3 028 566
• Founded in 2005• 20 million monthly unique visitors• To be featured on Mashable, it is not enough
to have a good idea, and good startup. You must have great idea like a hell, and you startup has to be something so revolutionary, that even your grandmother wants to use it.
1. TechCrunch
Page Rank 8
Facebook Likes 508 856
Twitter Followers 2 424 047
• And finally, first place, goes to Techcrunch. • Mashable has higher traffic, but Techcrunch
got us because there is much higher focus on Startup scene.
• Founded in 2005, it now has 12 million unique visitors monthly and also runs Crunchbase, open database about startup companies.
BONUS: StartUPpers.org
• Brand new social network for all startups. • It allows you not only to publish article about your startup, but you
can still come over, to connect to other startups, look for employees, beta testers, and actively participate in forums and discussions.
• You can be featured as “startup of the day” and get 24h coverage on the homepage.
• On startuppers.org, all startups are welcome, to create extraordinary networking area – online.
By Marek Novotny, founder of StartUPpers.org Link to original article
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