Comments on: Company Note: Wrong On All Counts

By: Kip Sheeline

Kip Sheeline — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:30:23 +0000

Your newsletter is concise, factual and, when you add editorial comment, in my opinion it's an intelligent perspective. Keep up the good work and don't let unattributed rumors get under your skin.

By: kenobi

kenobi — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:52:40 +0000

Now now ladies. Interesting to see that this story has the most posts I've ever seen on a stroy. It has everything a news story should have. Drama, money, lust…er, well, maybe not. But I do LOVE paidcontent, news aggregator or not.

By: mark sendo

mark sendo — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:51:41 +0000

I actually enjoy and get excited reading TC. Although it's easy to point out criticisms with someone who stakes his name with subjective opinions, Mike provides much more good than harm as so many startups rely on TC for information, mostly awesome!

By: mike

mike — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:53:17 +0000

Rafat,

Your site, particularly moconews.net is a complete joke. In fact, it is nothing more than a news aggregator with a one line commentary. The fact that Mark Lehman who is not known at all, has joined Def Jam and that makes the front page of Moconews just shows how pathetically useless your site is.

By: Amit Agarwal

Amit Agarwal — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:00:25 +0000

..The first comment is at 3:14 am, right after the post went live. In those wee hours, most people are either asleep or in flagrante delicto…

Ed, people on the other side of the world are wide awake during these hours :)

By: Anne H

Anne H — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:55:36 +0000

From what I read, his descriptions were not designed to be accurate. They didn't give specifics, but ranges. It looks more like an opinion piece created to generate a page views for all. While he may be wrong with regard to this site and financing, he does raise some interesting points.

By: Mr.Ed

Mr.Ed — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:00:45 +0000

TC is all about throwing spaghetti against the wall to generate page views for ad serving.

The first comment is at 3:14 am, right after the post went live. In those wee hours, most people are either asleep or in flagrante delicto.

You have to wonder what TC CEO Heather Harde thinks of these posts. It's got to make her nostalgic for Fox. You assume Mikey had to load her up with options to get her to bolt.

ExitCrunch?

By: Harris

Harris — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:07:28 +0000

There's a steep difference between paidcontent and techcrunch. I read both, and while techcrunch is clearly more popular, it's far less valuable, in my opinion. This site has valuable news and commentary, techcrunch has tons of profiles with very little solid analysis.

By: Investment Banker

Investment Banker — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:36:58 +0000

Mike is using this to promote his stock. The public secret is that he is actively selling his company right now.

Cnet passed and others are questioning his deal value. Mike is just trying to gain support for a financing that is going south. Now he is making up that he can rollup other blogs as his primary business model. Nice try Mike.

Note to Mike: Nobody wants to work with you. Sell Techcrunch now while it's worth something. My guess is that you can get close to $5-$10m cash if you sell it hard.

By: Dell Harris

Dell Harris — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:22:14 +0000

great post, rafat. fwiw, i think your site's quite valuable and i'm glad you're not going anywhere. truth is i didn't get too excited reading the techcrunch post. as someone on this board earlier noted, arrington's credibility as a reporter is poor. isn't he the guy who said rupert murdoch would buy yahoo? :) that and a lot of other one-sourced rumors put out as fact…the dude must be feeling the heat because his stuff is getting really mediocre of late.

anyway, keep doing the great work.