All startups face the same issue at their beginning. Questions like “how to get our first customers?” or “how to get at least 300 signups?” are bothering every startup founder. Of course, the most important thing to achieve this is to have great idea & great product. However, a lot of startup traction can be created by having your startup featured on popular startup blog/magazines/sites. I have decided to create a list of top sites, where you can submit your startup to get some coverage

1. 13 + 1 Top Sites To
Submit Your Startup
For Initial traction and Coverage
By Marek Novotny, founder of StartUPpers.org Link to original article

2. Each Startups Dilemma
1. How to get our first customers
2. How to get our first signups
3. How to create startup traction

3. To solve the dilemma you need
1. Great Idea
2. Great Product
3. Great Team
4. Online Coverage
And of course many other things.
But here comes the list of 13 top sites to pitch your startup to get some online coverage

4. 13. Feed My App
Page Rank 5 • Great site to submit your project if you are
Facebook Likes 2 071 working on mobile or web app.
• Founded in 2007
Twitter Followers 2 165 • Great place to make your first step in
promoting your startup.

5. 12. Techli
Page Rank 5 • Techli delivers news and in-depth editorial on
Facebook Likes 1 554 the technologies, businesses and ideas that are
changing the way we live, work, and play.
Twitter Followers 8 750 • Founder has quite some experience from
working for startups in Silicon Valley, some of
them he founded himself, so probably he
knows what he is writing about.

6. 11. Betali.st
Page Rank 4 • Founded in December 2010
• To be featured on betali.st, you have to be in
Facebook Likes 840 closed beta version, or even before that.
Twitter Followers 9 513 • IF your product is already out there, your
chance to be featured here is small.
• Featuring on this site gets you 100-200
signups.

7. 10. Betabait
Page Rank 4 • Works very similarly as Betali.st
• Betabait tries to connect startups which are
Facebook Likes 377 still in beta, with some beta-testers.
Twitter Followers 1 825 • Very young project, launched in 2011

8. 9. YoungUpStarts
Page Rank 4 • Stories about rather small businesses and ideas
that make this world better.
Facebook Likes ? • Part of Singapore-based Upstart Publishing.
Twitter Followers 1 117 Founded and run by Daniel Goh, who is at the
same time owner of The Good Beer Company.

9. 8. StartupMeme
Page Rank 5 • Founded in 2007
• StartupMeme managed to catch the startup
Facebook Likes 2 426 wave in the right time.
Twitter Followers 5 911 • Focused mainly on Social Startups
• Run by Mr. Sardar Mohkim Khan.

10. 7. KillerStartups
Page Rank 6 • “Tapping the wisdom of crowds to find the
next internet big thing.”
Facebook Likes 3 747 • KillerStartups believe, that the next BIG THING
Twitter Followers 8 936 (next Youtube, next Myspace) is going to be
somewhere on their site.
• If you believe the same about your project, you
should not miss this opportunity, and pitch
them.

11. 6. LifeHacker
Page Rank 7 • Award-winning daily blog that features tips,
shortcuts, and downloads that help you work
Facebook Likes 492 135 and live smarter and more efficiently.
Twitter Followers 550 174 • “Don’t live to geek; geek to live”.
• If your mobile app is a smart way how to hack
our lives, then you must be featured here.

12. 5. MakeUseOf
Page Rank 7 • Booming website, which welcomes startup
submissions.
Facebook Likes 193 508 • Focuses on cool websites, computer tips, and
Twitter Followers 38 447 downloads that make you more productive.
• Launched already in 2006 t
• 20M pageviews a month.

13. 4. ReadWriteWeb
Page Rank 7 • The “oldest” member on our list
• founded by Richard MacManus in 2003 as a
Facebook Likes 69 207 personal blog.
Twitter Followers 1 220 042 • Since then it grew to astronomical size being
one of the most respected technology site out
there.
• 3 days ago (12/oct/2012) it was announced,
that Richard has left RWW to start a new
chapter in his life. We can wish him nothing
else than good luck..

14. 3. Venture Beat
Page Rank 7 • One of the big 4, where you must be extremely
awesome to get to their page.
Facebook Likes 124 146 • VB covers all kind of technology articles and
Twitter Followers 107 444 explains what technology means for us.
• They started also VentureBeatProfiles, where
you can discover and share opinions about
startups – we strongly recommend you to
create account there.

15. 2. Mashable
Page Rank 8 • Founded in 2005
• 20 million monthly unique visitors
Facebook Likes 1 003 465 • To be featured on Mashable, it is not enough
Twitter Followers 3 028 566 to have a good idea, and good startup. You
must have great idea like a hell, and you
startup has to be something so revolutionary,
that even your grandmother wants to use it.

16. 1. TechCrunch
Page Rank 8 • And finally, first place, goes to Techcrunch.
• Mashable has higher traffic, but Techcrunch
Facebook Likes 508 856 got us because there is much higher focus on
Twitter Followers 2 424 047 Startup scene.
• Founded in 2005, it now has 12 million unique
visitors monthly and also runs Crunchbase,
open database about startup companies.

17. BONUS: StartUPpers.org
• Brand new social network for all startups.
• It allows you not only to publish article about your startup, but you
can still come over, to connect to other startups, look for employees,
beta testers, and actively participate in forums and discussions.
• You can be featured as “startup of the day” and get 24h coverage on
the homepage.
• On startuppers.org, all startups are welcome, to create
extraordinary networking area – online.

18. www.startuppers.org
info@startuppers.org
www.facebook.com/Startuppers.org
twitter.com/Startuppers_Org
By Marek Novotny, founder of StartUPpers.org Link to original article