My 3 Favorite VC Bloggers

On October 24, 2009, In Biz, By Tac Anderson

I’m not involved in the VC world anymore but still love the field and find VC’s great BS filters for what’s happening in our space. I thought I’d share with you my 3 favorite VC blogs, although there are many more these three are the ones I would most recommend.

Most of you are probably familiar with Fred Wilson, and if your not you should be. Fred has some great advice I try and follow and every serious blogger should follow. This is from a Q&A he did with Technorati:

What’s your advice for aspiring professional bloggers?

Show up every day with something interesting to say and don’t be afraid to speak your mind.

Brad Feld with the Foundry group in Boulder has a great blog you should follow. He’s probably the single most intelligent VC’s regarding technology I’ve met. The guy’s a total geek and wicked smart.

Mark Solon with Highway 12Ventures is relatively new to the blogging scene but is already one of my favorite blogs to read. He is the single most trustworthy VC’s I’ve met and most startups that have worked with him will tell you the same. He’s also a total health nut and could kick my butt on a bike any day. Besides that he’s a great friend and it’s his birthday today. Happy 44th Mark.

The Highway 12 blog is especially relevant is you’re in the Rocky Mountain area but he covers topics every startup should read. Gems like this:

Don’t Let The Bastards Grind You Down | Highway 12 Ventures

“Who the hell do you think I am to tell you that your business won’t be successful?”

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I Don’t Read the Paper, I Read Twitter

On June 16, 2009, In Comm, By Tac Anderson
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I write this post knowing I run the risk of kindling the wrath of my good friend David Heller (@muchosalsa). (BTW I’m *mostly* talking about the physical format of the newspaper in this post) But I have never subscribed to a newspaper in my life. On my way down to Austin last night on the red-eye with David Patton (@spincycle3) I was at a loss with what to do with this stack of newspapers he brought on the plane.

The only value I see in the newspapers is passive discovery. The ability to read something, turn the page and find an interesting article about something you’d never go out of your way to find. The problem is most of the time I have no interest whatsoever in the article on the next page and there’s no StumbleUpon button to take me to the next article that may have more interest to me. I’m just stuck with what’s in the paper. (As a side note I found it much harder to scan a newspaper than a Web page)

AVC, Fred Wilson one of the original early stage investors in Twitter recently gave a speech at the 140 conference: The Value Of Twitter Is In “The Power Of Passed Links”.

To me Twitter is my passive discovery. The thousands of people I follow provide that discovery that most people get from the paper. Except instead of reading one paper I read bits of hundreds of “papers” and blogs.

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