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Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
I will say this was not expected by me, but I don’t really follow the startup coverage at TechCrunch that much, I end up reading the more mainstream stuff they do, like the youtube announcement, etc. But, this does make sense as they would cover the entire lifetime of a startup, from beginning until the end.
FuckedCompany first went live in 2000, chronicling failing and troubled companies in its unique and abrasive style after the dot com bust. Within a year it had a massive audience and was getting serious mainstream press attention. As the startup economy became better in 2004, much of the attention the site received went away. But a large and loyal audience remains at the site, coming back day after day for its unique slant on the news. At its peak, FC had 4 million unique monthly visitors.
Since FC focuses on the negative news coming out of startups, and TechCrunch tends to focus on the positive, this combination may seem odd. But the sites are in fact extremely complimentary. For example, the audiences are about equal in size and have very little overlap. So from day one we will double our reach and traffic. Source:
We Say: Lots of comments have cried April Fools, and this certainly would be a pretty good one, and lots of them happened a day early last year. Michael talks about merging both websites into one and creating a new site for the startups, which doesn’t make much sense to me, but, what do I know.
