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What Entrepreneur's Editor-in-Chief Looks For When Assigning Stories

It's not about you.
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Recently, a CEO was venting to me about how he routinely pitches his business to reporters, but nobody writes about him. So I told him the five words that, harsh as they are, all entrepreneurs need to hear: Sometimes you’re not the story.

But good news: You could be part of the story. 

Every month I use this space to explain how I make editorial decisions. I do this because entrepreneurs frequently want , but

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