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Demand Media Launches Long Form Article Effort

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The firm said it is looking to engage feature writers to write long articles--"north of 850 words"--for its sites. Demand Media said it is looking specifically for feature writers who have 5 to 10 years of experience, writing or reporting for a major daily newspaper or as a regular contributor to a major magazine.

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The Silent Benefits of PR

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Then they read about you in the American Airlines magazine or Wired or Recode and they think to themselves, “we should really reach out to that company.” Of course you need a new angle to get a journalist interested because they don’t simply want to write what everybody else has covered. ” You get the call.

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How to use PR Firms at Startups

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Obviously you should have somebody that helps you research journalists, gets you meetings, pitches stories, helps prep you for interviews & helps make sure your writing is cogent. And I actually got pretty decent grades in English and writing overall. When I write I’m looking for human tone rather than perfect sentences.

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From Startup Newsletter To Best Selling Book: How This Entrepreneur Pulled It Off

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I said, ''Hey, listen were going to start writing this newsletter and it''s going to highlight our trials and tribulations, our failures and our successes. The opening paragraphs of that first newsletter are indicative of the captivating and accessible writing style, which eventually cultivated a huge audience. And of those 35 people.

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Startup Tips From College Dropouts: Zuckerberg, Jobs, Gates, Dell, Ellison, Branson and Disney

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HIGHEST DEGREE OBTAINED BY AMERICA'S 400 RICHEST PEOPLE Source: Forbes Magazine, Jan 2012. Bill Gates – “The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. No one ever accused Mr. Gates of being a master programmer. I got hopelessly lost.”.

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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

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We then had a piece in Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Europe, we ran front cover of Tornado Insider (the top VC magazine in Europe at the time). Just don’t believe what they write about you. Write a blog post or a journal about how you feel while you’re there. Get stories written.

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Interview with Tara Weingarten, VroomGirls

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As automotive web sites go, there are lots of review and information sites giving you information about new and used cars, magazines and information sites for auto enthusiasts, and discussion sites and groups for all kinds of cars. The other thing that struck me, is because it is only men, they tend to write with lots of testosterone.

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