Rebekah Iliff
Founder, WriteVest
Rebekah Iliff is the founder of WriteVest, a writer’s collective specializing in publisher-ready content for enterprise brands and startups. In addition to her client work, she is a contributing writer for Inc. Magazine, Entrepreneur, Forbes, and Business2Community and a guest columnist for The Satirist. Her writing has also appeared in Mashable, HuffPost, Bloomberg Businessweek, FastCompany, and The New York Times. She is the lead writer and producer for “Food Roots,” a travel-food documentary series set to air on PBS. For her creative work, Rebekah is currently represented by ICM Partners in New York.
Prior to her professional writing career, Rebekah was the founding Chief Strategy Officer at AirPR Software (based in San Francisco, California), where she was a key contributor for the invention of the company’s attribution technology—an industry-first innovation now used by some of the world’s largest organizations to measure the impact of their editorial and owned media content. She also co-founded one of the fastest growing startup-focused PR firms in the country, talkTECH (based in Los Angeles, California).
Content & Articles by Rebekah Iliff
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) for Early Stage Companies
In our latest session from the Mucker Growth Series featuring Ethan Smith from Graphite, we explored AEO, a significant new approach for optimizing visibility in AI-driven search, particularly relevant as...
Startup Guide to AI Visibility: Be the Brand ChatGPT Recommends
Introduction Today, users aren’t just searching on Google. They’re asking ChatGPT, Claude, Google’s Gemini, Perplexity, and other AI systems for advice. AI visibility is the new frontier of brand awareness....
Practical Uses of AI & Automation for Startup Operations
In a recent Mucker Growth Series session, we invited Rock Vitale, Founder & CEO of Easie, to share how he’s helped early-stage teams move from manual, fragmented workflows to streamlined,...
2025 New York Tech Week Recap Of Mucker Sessions
Last week during New York Tech Week 2025, we joined more than 1,000 events hosted by founders, investors, and VCs. This post is a full Mucker recap of the three...
How to Build a Customer Support Function for Startups Using AI Tools with Alex Velinov
Delivering high-quality customer support can be one of the most resource-draining parts of a startup. The good news: we’re at a turning point where founders can use AI tools to...
Zero → 100: The Exact Steps We Took to Close Our First 100 Paying Customers
Going from zero customers to 100 in just four months sounds impossible—unless you’re a founder willing to roll up your sleeves and hustle relentlessly. I’m Gaurav Bhattacharya, co-founder of Jeeva.ai,...
