The Making Of A TechCrunch Blogger – with Alexia Tsotsis

Alexia Tsotsis, Content, Women Founders

TechCrunch leads much of the conversation in the tech/startup world, so aren’t you curious about how it operates behind the scenes?

When my friend Alexia Tsotsis got a job at TechCrunch a few months ago, I gave her some time to settle into the position, and then I started peppering her with requests to do a Mixergy interview.

What you’ll hear in this interview is how she got hired, why she sometimes runs posts that don’t feel like news, how she finds startups to feature, and why she can blog constantly when most people give up after one bout of writer’s block.

Alexia Tsotsis

Alexia Tsotsis is a writer at TechCrunch.

 

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