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How My Medium Story Got Curated

How It Relates to the Startup Mentality

Grace Huang
5 min readJun 7, 2020

Here is what happened in the past week - I wrote an article about how to write a software technical design document on the weekend. That was not my first time writing on Medium. I had been writing on different topics for 5 years, but none of my stories had ever been widely distributed.

The next morning after I published this article, I got an email from Medium -

Screenshot of the email from Medium to me

At the same time, I received invitations from the editors of 4 different well-known Medium publications, to add this article to their publications. Ever since then, I have seen huge upticks in Internal and External Views and Member Reading Time that I had never experienced before.

It was an unanticipated and flattering experience. I have been reflecting on what I did differently from my previous Stories. Here is what I have learned from publishing my first-ever Medium curated Story.

Genuine Intention: Solving a Real Problem

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Grace Huang
Grace Huang

Written by Grace Huang

I write about startups, entrepreneurship, investing, software, hardware and manufacturing.

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