Venture Capital blogs I read.
(and a picture of a kitten)
This is the list of the Venture Capital blogs that I read.
(and a picture of a kitten)
The list is incomplete, it is clay on the wheel and it will be raised and lowered.
Some write too frequently, or have too much visuals, some write excessively as a channel for their brand. All that is OK with me, I can parse quickly. When they hit on something good, it’s economically worded, creatively expressed and honest.
The best, which I have only begun to list here, (I will be adding more as their emails hit my inbox) I subscribe to. It’s a much more efficient way for me to synthesize. I am not ADD challenged, I don’t like to read in the foreground but obscured by too much of the background moving closer.
I started this last about two months ago in Greece on a long run. I don’t enjoy Business Insider too much. It’s good but it never feels nourishing. Ditto some tech oriented content sites that are infomercials for the daytime.
Venture Capital, which is a huge piece of my life, these blogs are my Sunday News, Magazine, Metropolitan, Theater sections. A few quick notes:
Repeating that the list is incomplete. Everything has to start and that what the list is. It’s a list for whoever finds it and it also for me.
- Some names I have excluded. Fred Wilson is great (and I do get his email) but it’s a sound bite. It’s largely a 20,000 foot view, except when he drills down and many times those are videos of his discussions. Those I watch (or listen to) at the gym or on a run and thise are great.
- Some names are just too hip, they become required reading, some are good.
- Some truly suck. They are the man behind the curtain.
- Everyone is genius in a bull market and everyone who wins a game of chess wants to boast about their superior strategy. And then they lose, and they lose again and they fade away. I was neck deep in Internet 1.0, and then 2.0 and each had its soothsayers.
The people I like, I like a lot.
And the people I don’t like, I don’t like. I can’t stand the scattershot , um, strategy. I could write about it but time and inevitable market volatility will write it for me.
Back to the people I read: Some I disagree with on occasion and I might have a deeper perspective then theirs. Or I could be wrong. I dunno.
Some I am an investor in their funds, some I am not. Many of our managers at NEA and Sequoia just don’t write. I wish they would and I wish they wouldn’t. Some of are friends, some I have never met.
One of the strangest things is that some of the smartest people in the room don’t blog much. I don’t know why. Someone should write a post about that, someone should solve that mystery and get the them to cross the self publishing literary chasm.
Lastly I should add that one of the most remarkable things I have seen mature over the last 20 years is the amount of sharing and transparency in the VC/PE marketplace. The bread and butter of VC and PE was to keep your mouth shut unless paid in full. Now it’s the opposite.
And thats good. For everyone.
list is here, i couldn’t paste it into medium, there has to be a way…?
