Tag: startups
Why dont technology startups leverage PR even if its more effective?
Our good friend Todd posted a very good piece on how PR helps raise venture capital. In it, he quotes a survey from BIGfrontier Communications that has the following statistics:
Startup companies that engage in PR campaigns are 30% more successful in getting funding within one to three months than those that don’t.
Forty-four percent of the [...]
Posted: July 15th, 2009 under Blogger Relations, Marketing, Public Relations.
Tags: Entrepreneurs, PR, Public Relations, Shift Communications, startups, Todd Defren
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More PR bashing by Jason
Besides Jason who talks about “Do it yourself PR” there are several others who claim the best thing to do is to fire your PR firm, pitch yourself and never hire a PR firm in the first place.
I have to say there are great PR folks and there are awful PR folks, and then the [...]
Posted: July 15th, 2009 under BuzzGain.
Tags: Entrepreneur, Jason Calacanis, PR, startups
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