The AMA Recap: VC & Funding

Here's what we covered.

On August 19, our Ask Media Anything webinar featured Kate Clark of The Information, Christine Hall of Crunchbase News,  Miles Kruppa of Financial Times, and Biz Carson of Protocol. These four top reporters and contributors of fund publications answered questions for 60 minutes straight, so make sure you check out the recording below. Thank you to everyone for their questions and participation!

Let's go live.

Here are some of the top AMA tweets and words of advice from our panelists. If you want the full scoop, check out the recording of the webinar above. 

Kate Clark of The Information

@KateClarkTweets of @theinformation and @MilesKruppaof @FinancialTimes agree that getting more than two emails from the same person is a major pet peeve when receiving pitches. #AMA

— BAM (@BAMtheagency) August 19, 2020

Live from the #AMA webinar,  @KateClarkTweets of @theinformation says, “we’re interested in deals coming out of China and India, but we’re mostly focused on Silicon Valley or New York. I wouldn’t say we aren’t interested, but it just depends."

— BAM (@BAMtheagency) August 19, 2020

Christine Hall of Crunchbase News

@ChristineMHall shares her thoughts on pitching media during our live #AMA webinar: "I don’t want long pitches. I want 1 to 2 paragraphs about the funding, when you plan to announce it, the funding amount - that’s key. If there’s no funding amount, we won’t cover it."

— BAM (@BAMtheagency) August 19, 2020

If CrunchBase found it, the news is already out there. - Christine

Miles Kruppa of Financial Times

@MilesKruppa of @FinancialTimes says, "the timing of things does matter. If you know the journalist - you’ve built a relationship with them and you trust them to handle the exclusive - the timing matters.” #AMA

— BAM (@BAMtheagency) August 19, 2020

I like it when a pitch isn’t quite so transactional. When they have something else to say besides just their company. It’s helpful to reporters when you have something bigger to say. - Miles

Biz Carson of Protocol

Live from our #AMA, @bizcarson of @protocol shares her pitching pet peeve, "pitching other people on my team without disclosing that you’ve pitched me."

— BAM (@BAMtheagency) August 19, 2020

"Give me as detailed financials as you can get. When I worked at @Forbes, you couldn’t really do a story without a revenue number which drove startups nuts, says @bizcarson of @protocol during our live #AMA webinar.

— BAM (@BAMtheagency) August 19, 2020