Directory of Blogs by Entrepreneurs
This post was inspired by Fidelity Ventures Partner Larry Cheng who recently compiled a list of VC blogs and ranked them in order of Google Reader subscribers. I have a few hundred feeds that I follow in Google Reader and the way that I find new ones is a random process of discovery so Larry's post was great in that he not only provided a rank-ordered list but also a convenient way to mass subscribe.
VC bloggers are fascinating to follow. But I also love to follow blogs by entrepreneurs. It's an unique viewpoint and one that I find that I learn a lot from. So with that in mind, I created a list of entrepreneur blogs. The criteria for inclusion on this list is rough but basically boils down to the primary author of the blog has to be a founder or C-level executive at an entrepreneurial organization and write relatively frequently about entrepreneurial stuff. In compiling the list I made several exceptions. For example, I included TheFunded which is not a single author blog but rather a feed from a members-only network of entrepreneurs and I included Marc Andreesson who has great stuff on his blog but he just hasn't written anything new in a while.
My list has many biases. For example, it's tilted toward authors in the US who write about "tech" companies but I would love to expand and grow the reach. So if you know of other blogs that should be included on this list, post a comment here and I'll update the list.
Lastly, here is a Google Bundle for the list. Full disclosure: I included this blog in the bundle which you can feel free to delete.
- , Founder / CEO at Fog Creek Software (64,598)
- Seth Godin, Founder of Yoyodyne; creator of "permission marketing" (41,957)
- Jason Fried, 37signals co-founder Jason Fried (and other 37signals employees) (31,595)
- Tim O'Reilly, Founder / CEO of O'Reilly Media (10,269)
- Jason Calacanis, CEO of Mahalo (10,000) [note: this is an email list & not in Google bundle]
- Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux (8,436)
- Jonathan Schwartz, CEO at Sun (7,750)
- David Heinemeier Hansson, Co-founder 37signals (7,000)
- Nivi Babak & Naval Ravikant, Entrepreneurs helping entrepreneurs succeed (6,897)
- Dharmesh Shah, Founder / CEO of HubSpot (6,723)
- Sergey Brin, Co-founder Google (5,782)
- Chris Pirillo, Geek, Internet entrepreneur, hardware addict, et al (5,437)
- Marc Andresseen, Co-founder of Netscape, Loudcloud, et al (5,116)
- Kevin Rose, Founder Digg (4,496)
- Carson McComas, Entrepreneur (4,064)
- Mark Cuban, Owner Dallas Mavericks; Founder Broadcast.com (4,062)
- Andrew Chen, Analysis on viral marketing, freemium, design & online ads (2,407)
- Markus Frind, CEO of Plentyoffish.com (1,966)
- Jeff Pulver, VOIP entrepreneur (1,709)
- Benjamin Yoskovitz, Instigating discussion, ideas and better business (1,477)
- Ross Mayfield, Co-founder / President of SocialText (1,248)
- Dan Bricklin, VisiCalc co-creater (1,159)
- TheFunded, Various C-level executives at startups (1,137)
- David Sifry, Founder / CEO at Technorati (1,093)
- Steve Blank, Retired serial entrepreneur now professor of entrepreneurship (1,062)
- Jonathan Mendez, Serial entrepreneur, online ad expert (1,087)
- Loic Le Meur, Founder / CEO Seesmic, Founder Le Web (855)
- Dave McClure, Serial entrepreneur now adviser (796)
- Rajesh Setty, Serial entrepreneur (683)
- Wil Schroter, Founder Go Big Network (781)
- Christopher Carfi, Co-founder Cerado (761)
- Shai Agassi, Musing on alternative energy, electric cars and other topics (670)
- Eric Ries, CTO and serial entrepreneur (627)
- Craig Newmark, Craig from Craigslist (609)
- Joe Krauss, Entrepreneur (578)
- Furqan Nazeeri, Startups, venture capital & everything in between (508)
- Caterina Fake, Co-founder Flickr (479)
- Anil Dash, Co-founder Six Apart (472)
- Matt Blumberg, A first-time CEO writes about entrepreneurship and email (438)
- James Hong, Founder Hot or Not (426)
- Paul Stamatiou, Tech News, Reviews & Guides (379)
- Gabor Cselle, A blog about email and startups (337)
- Tony Wright, Founder / CEO RescueTime (291)
- Jason Shellen, Founder / CEO at Plinky (281)
- Sean Ellis, Serial CMO / VP Marketing (266)
- Tom Szaky, CEO at TerraCycle (263)
- Greg Reinacker, Founder & CTO at NewsGator (240)
- Dave Kellogg, CEO of Mark Logic Corporation (210)
- Barney Pell, CEO of Powerset (165)
- Rahul Sood, Founder VoodooPC (159)
- Antonio Rodriguez, Founder / CEO at Tabblo.com (142)
- Bert Armijo, Co-founder & SVP at 3tera (133)
- Sim Simeonov, Entrepreneur; recovering VC (115)
- Jon Bischke, Founder / CEO @ EduFire (114)
- Prasad Thammineni, Serial entrepreneur and founder at Pixily (111)
- James Siminoff, Founder / CEO at PhoneTag (94)
- Steve Barsh, Serial enterpreneur / interim executive (92)
- Daniel Tunkelang, Chief Scientist at Endeca (91)
- Mark Pincus, Serial entrepreneur / recovering VC (91)
- Adeo Ressi, Entrepreneur, environmentalist & founder of TheFunded.com (70)
- Terry Gold, Serial entrepreneur (57)
- Andrew Payne, Serial entrepreneur (50)
- David Cancel, Co-founder & CTO at Lookery.com (41)
- , Founder FairSoftware (41)
- Jana Eggers, CEO of SPRD.net AG (36)
- Brian Shin, Founder / CEO at Visible Measures (34)
- Charles Teague, Technologist-in-Residence at General Catalyst (30)
- Michael Gracie, Serial COO / CTO (30)
- Pito Salas, Founder BlogBridge; former CTO eRoom (23)
- , Entrepreneur / former CEO at Black Duck Software (21)
- John Nesheim, Engineer & veteran of Silicon Valley (20)
- Mitch Kapor, Founder Lotus (20)
- Various Entrepreneurs, Founder Institute (20)
- Jeff Bennett, Experiences as an enterpreneur with social media and eCommerce (18)
- Mick Hagen, Founder @ Zinch (16)
- Aaron Cohen, Serial entrepreneur (15)
- Apolinaras Sinkevicius, Startup ops guy (14)
- Steve Woda, Founder buySAFE (11)
- Jules Pieri, CEO at Daily Grommet (10)
- David Hauser, Co-founder ReturnPath; CEO Grasshopper (10)
- Leon Ho, Founder Stepcase blogger @ lifehack (10)
- Alan Isfan, Co-founder / CEO at FaveQuest (8)
- Tom Keller, Founder & former CEO of Intense Debate (6)
- Laurent Feral-Pierssens, Founder / CEO Silentale (6)
- Jon Gillespie-Brown, Serial entrepreneur (6)
- Alan Meckler, CEO WebMediaBrands (4)
- Edward Daciuk, Investing, entrepreneurship, music, reading & life (3)
- Jay Jamison, Serial entrepreneur (3)