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The State of Startup Media - by Kyle Harrison

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This is a weekly newsletter about the art and science of building and investing in tech companies. To receive Investing 101 in your inbox each week, subscribe here: When I started thinking about startups in 2013 there was one resource that everyone pointed me to: TechCrunch. The people really in the know also knew to check HackerNews. When I started working in venture in 2014, there was one resource that got added to the list: Fortune Term Sheet. If you checked in on those 2-3 resources, you'd have a pretty good lay of the land in tech. But around that same time, two things happened. In 2011, a16z made the claim that "software is eating the world." Increasingly, if software and technology are becoming "everything," then media about technology transitions from being niche to being universal. In 2013, Snowden let everyone know that companies like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft were letting the NSA access user data. Then, Cambridge Analytica happened in 2018. During the dotcom, the inter

The State of Startup Media A Newfound Republic of Letters Kyle Harrison Apr 27, 2025 42 14 10 Share This is a weekly newsletter about the art and science of building and investing in tech companies. To receive Investing 101 in your inbox each week, subscribe here: Subscribe Startup Storytelling When I started thinking about startups in 2013 there was one resource that everyone pointed me to: TechCrunch . The people really in the know also knew to check HackerNews . When I started working in venture in 2014, there was one resource that got added to the list: Fortune Term Sheet . If you checked

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