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Tech journalist Newcomer on being an entrepreneur

May 4, 2025

Posted by Chris Roush

Eric Newcomer

Candice Choi spoke with tech journalist Eric Newcomer — who operates the Newcomer newsletter — about what it’s like being an entrepreneur as well as a reporter.

Here is an excerpt:

“You understand how hard things are. It has created a little more of an optimistic product, productive, less judging. Sometimes journalists can have a ‘this was a path not taken, and it could have been this.’ But there might not have been a path if not for this company getting created.”

“If you’re going to be a startup, you need to find ways to differentiate from the competition. One of them is to build in public. So I announced last year that we generated more than $2 million in revenue.”

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