The Venture Capital Blogs Resource Page

This page contains a categorized list of the best venture capital blogs, with a description of and link to each one. Submission instructions are at the bottom of the page.

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Last updated: February 23 2006 -- 1 added, 0 removed, 1 edited.

Venture Capital Blogs

A VC
is written by Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures in New York City. Wilson's quality of insight on emerging internet and media companies has propelled his blog toward the top of the daily must-reads in these fields. Wilson describes his blog as an experiment; with that in mind, he posts a variety of revenue-generating ads (the proceeds from which Wilson donates to charity) and other plug-ins. Wilson threads within his business posts thoughts on music (he likes indie rock and includes some free tracks), but one can sign up for his 'VC and Technology' RSS feed if you'd prefer to skip these.

Above the Crowd
is less a blog than a regular column.  Written by Benchmark Capital partner Bill Gurley, each issue focuses on an area of  emerging technology.  The blog has archives for the column going back to 1996. [Update: Above the Crowd has been inactive since October, 2004]

Allen's Blog
belongs to Allen Morgan, ex-lawyer (Wilson Sonsini) and now general partner at VC firm Mayfield. Mr Morgan writes about technology, Internet, venture capital and entrepreneurship. The last few months' posts have been dominated by an interesting and informative series of posts called Ten Commandments for Entrepreneurs, which Mr Morgan describes as "my ideas of the 10 most important "procedural" things to keep in mind when you approach a VC." Posts are infrequent (sometimes only one per month) but longer and more thoughtful than many others'.  Three minor gripes about the blog: (1) Although the blog uses TypePad which has excellent support for categories, posts aren't categorized. (2) Like all VCs, Mr Morgan pushes his own companies: he's on the board of Pluck, for example, and (surprise, surprise) the only RSS subscription logo on the blog is for... Pluck. (3) Navigation is hard. The posts are fairly long, but they're not broken into introduction/continuation to make them more navigable on the home page.

Beyond VC
is written by Ed Sim, a partner with early-stage technology VC firm Dawntreader Ventures (based in New York).  He covers venture capital and technology from a broad perspective, with particular emphasis on emerging software companies and how VCs and entrepreneurs work together to build them.  Some of his posts are particularly useful for entrepreneurs, such as his discussion of how to run an efficient directors' meeting.

Deal Flow
is Business Week Online's venture capital blog, produced by staff writers Sarah Lacy and Justin Hibbard. Because this blog is written by journalists rather than VCs it has a markedly different tone and style from most of the other blogs in this list. The blog format certainly adds to Business Week's coverage of the VC industry. It gives readers a sense of the preparation and research that goes into the more formal articles in Business Week itself, and it provides greater exposure to the individual journalists as it has a more personal tone. Most important, it allows readers to comment. Don't underestimate the importance of this type of blog: the adoption of blogs by respected financial publications shows that the blog format is impacting mainstream journalism.

Feld Thoughts
is written by Brad Feld, a managing director at Mobius Venture Capital who lives in Boulder, Colorado and Homer, Alaska. Like most VCs, he writes extensively about his own portfolio companies (that's not necessarily a bad thing), as well as technology, blogging, and entrepreneurship. A particular strength are his discussions of venture capital related issues. He's written a series, for example, on term sheets, which are must-read articles for any entrepreneur looking for VC financing. Posts are a little sporadic: sometimes one per day, sometimes nothing for a week. But if you subscribe via an RSS reader that shouldn't matter.

Infectious Greed
is written by former hedge fund manager and now finance professor Paul Kedrosky, who previously wrote for TheStreet.com. The blog is eclectic, opinionated, entertaining and smart. Kedrosky writes about venture capital, stocks, technology, gadgets and blogging, so not all the posts are investment related. Posts are very frequent (often 3 or more per day). Some gripes: the blog doesn't provide any way of contacting the auther, and like many users of Google's Blogger software, Infectious Greed doesn't use categories,so it's hard to find past posts on specific topics.

The J-Curve
is Steve Jurvetson's blog.  Jurvetson is a partner with VC firm Draper, Fisher, Jurvetson, but for some reason the profile on his blog doesn't mention that.

Jeff Nolan
is a partner with SAP Ventures, the venture capital affiliate of enterprise software vendor SAP AG.  His blog provides links and original content on the broader technology industry, with an emphasis on enterprise software applications and infrastructure.

Northwest VC
is written by Steve Hall, a partner with Vulcan Capital.  While his specific interests are embedded networking and data intelligence, he writes about technology and venture investing broadly.

NIVI
is written by Babak Nivi, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Bessemer Venture Partners in Menlo Park, California, former consultant to Boston-based Atlas Ventures and previously with Seed Capital Partners. The blog focuses on venture capital, entrepreneurship, and business, but Nivi "will write about anything that I think is truly innovative; I really enjoy finding the newest and best ideas and presenting them". The result is that NIVI reads like a cross between a venture capital blog and a technology blog. He writes about the business of starting and funding companies, but it has less pomposity ("here's my advice...") than many VC partner blogs; and it has the sense of excitement of someone intoxicated with technology. It's particularly strong on Internet tech, and also has a tab that links to the author's del.icio.us page of selected and briefly annotated bookmarks. The blog was launched in April 2005, but picked up from one started in 2003. Post are a few times a week.

Paul Allen
founded Internet company MyFamily.com and is now managing partner of business incubator Infobase Ventures. He writes about technology, telecommunications, entrepreneurship, public company investing, venture capital, books - basically anything that he is thinking about. This is a fabulous blog due to the intelligence, presentation and subject matter of the posts. It's particularly useful for those involved in (or investing in) Internet companies. Posts are roughly one per day.

SF Venture
is written by Keith Benjamin, partner with Levensohn Venture partners since 2002, and previously partner with Highland Capital Partners. His focus is on software, particularly applications that exploit data for business purposes and the shift to "On Demand" delivery. He also writes about the VC business, M&A, leveraged buyouts and other aspects of Wall Street. Launched in January 2005 with sporadic posts every couple of weeks.

VC Adventure,
written by Mobius Venture Capital principal Seth Levine, has a different tone from many other VC blogs. Mr Levine started as an Associate and is currently a Principal. (He works for Brad Feld, who writes Feld Thoughts.) Those positions give him a different perspective from the Partners whose blogs dominate this list. VC Adventure is strong on blogging and the surrounding technologies, partly because his firm has invested in Technorati, Newsgator and Feedburner.  But it's uniqueness lies in the fact that it's more inward-looking than most VC blogs: instead of just commenting on the outside world, the blog gives you a sense of what it's like to work for a VC firm. The blog was started in January, and has about 3 to 4 posts per week.

Venture Blog's
contributors include Andrew Anker, EVP for Corporate Development with Six Apart, David Hornik of August Capital, Kevin Laws of PacRim Venture Partners, and Naval Ravikant of  DotEdu Ventures.  Their goal, they say, is "to discuss the things we think about on a daily basis as early stage venture investors in Silicon Valley".

Will Price
leads Pequot's software investing on the West Coast. Pequot is an asset management company ($7bn under management) that runs long-short equity portfolios as well as private equity investments. The blog focuses on issues relevant to venture capitalists, start-up management teams, and technologists, with discussion of industry trends, management and venture capital best practices, and Mr. Price's personal thoughts on the VC industry at large. Launched in May 2005, with about two posts per week.

How to submit a blog for (no guarantee) consideration in this list

Blogs are chosen entirely on merit.  If your blog is accepted and
you'd like to link to this page, that's great.  But I don't require a
link because link swapping compromises editorial integrity.
If you think your blog is a candidate for acceptance to this page,
please provide the following information (be careful to include
everything) via this form:

1. the name of your blog
2. author's name (if anonymous, please say so)
3. the URL

4. a brief description of the blog - what subjects you cover or what slant you take
5. when the blog started (blogs under three months old stand little chance of inclusion)
6. how freqently you post to the blog
7. some biographical information about the author(s); even if the blog
   is anonymous, provide some information about why you are qualified to
   write on the topic
8. whether your blog has any particular strengths (for example: exhaustive links on a particular topic)
9. an example of a particularly good posting on your blog that is also characteristic of what you write about.

Please make sure you number your answers to these questions in the same order that they appear here.  If in doubt, include more rather than less information. It increases your chance of inclusion and the quality of the write-up if you are included.