The Making Of a Top Blogger: Mike Arrington and Tech Crunch

If you’re reading this blog, you probably know what Tech Crunch is. It’s the place to go for Web 2.0 reviews and information. It’s run by Mike Arrington, and now includes many blogs in the “Crunch Network”. I met Mike, who was a very humble guy just taking some pictures, at an event that was thrown at the famous Tech Crunch House/Ranch in September by Noah Kagan. It was a VC vs. Entrepreneur Wine Tasting Event. Yes, the VCs beat us. Anyway, Mike is at over 139,000 readers, and that’s happened in less than a year and a half. When I was searching the internet a few months ago, I somehow stumbled upon Mike’s first personal blog. I think this is really cool to see, and an inspiration for bloggers as well. It shows when mike was just starting out with Tech Crunch and had just gotten into blogging. One post shows “Tech Crunch Gaining Subscribers“… 63 Subscribers. Well, hes at more than 2,000 times that. There’s a lesson to be learned here: Even the the big guys were once just “starting out”. We all long to get to the place where “We’re kind of a big Deal”, but sometimes don’t want to wait. It happens, and one day you’ll be there if you do two things: Stay Patient and Stay Focused. We all have to go through the rites of passage and pay our dues. I haven’t fully paid my dues, but I’ve been doing the startup thing for 2 years, and I will tell you: Failure Rocks. It will increase your knowledge exponentially. So in the end, stay focused and stay patient, because one day you can be a big deal too.

[tags] tech crunch, mike arrington, web 2.0, publictivity, blogging, noah kagan, failure, learning [/tags]