Top 10 Blogging VC’s

In the spirit of Erick Schonfeld’s The Top 20 VC Bloggers (September 2009), Here are my Top 10 Blogging VC’s.

1. Guy Kawasaki, Garage Technology Ventures, How To Change The World (24,356)
2. Fred Wilson, Union Square Ventures, A VC
3. Bill Gurley, Benchmark Capital, Above The Crowd
4. David Hornik, August Capital, VentureBlog
5. Brad Feld, Foundry Group, Feld Thoughts
6. Marc Andreesen, TBD, Blog.pmarca.com
7. Ed Sim, Dawntreader Ventures, Beyond VC
8. Josh Kopelman, First Round Capital, Redeye VC
9. Jeremy Liew, Lightspeed Ventures Partners, LSVP
10. Seth Levine, Foundry Group, VC Adventure

The Top 20 VC Bloggers (September 2009), by Erick Schonfeld on September 8, 2009

When it comes to lists of top VCs, one of our favorites is the top VC bloggers. Larry Cheng, a partner at Fidelity Ventures, started keeping just such a list last May, based on how many subscribers each VC blogger has on Google Reader. This morning he updated his VC blogger leaderboard. The top 20 are below, all 100 are on his own blog, Thinking About Thinking (No. 71).

These rankings obviously do not correlate with venture returns, but they are one measure of who are the most interesting VCs. Guy Kawasaki and Fred Wilson kept their No. 1 and No. 2 spots on the leaderboard, but Benchmark’s Bill Gurley made a big move from No. 9 to No. 3.  That pushed most everybody else down a notch.  Dave McClure made his debut on the list at No. 13.  And Peter Rip moved up 37 spots to No. 15.  Here is the full leaderboard:

Top  20 VC Bloggers

Rank (Change) Name, Venture Firm, Blog (Subscribers)

1. (-) Guy Kawasaki, Garage Technology Ventures, How To Change The World (24,356)
2. (-) Fred Wilson, Union Square Ventures, A VC (21,881)
3. (+6) Bill Gurley, Benchmark Capital, Above The Crowd (8,897)
4. (-1) David Hornik, August Capital, VentureBlog (8,037)
5. (-1) Brad Feld, Foundry Group, Feld Thoughts (7,543)
6. (-1) Marc Andreesen, TBD, Blog.pmarca.com (5,727)
7. (-1) Ed Sim, Dawntreader Ventures, Beyond VC (4,162)
8. (-2) Josh Kopelman, First Round Capital, Redeye VC (4,071)
9. (-1) Jeremy Liew, Lightspeed Ventures Partners, LSVP (3,512)
10. (+3) Seth Levine, Foundry Group, VC Adventure (1,569)
11. (-) David Cowan, Bessemer Venture Partners, Who Has Time For This? (1,526)
12. (-) Christopher Allen, Alacrity Ventures, Life With Alacrity (1,419)
13. (new) Dave McClure, Founders Fund, Master of 500 Hats (1,417)
14. (-) Multiple Authors, Union Square Ventures, Union Square Ventures Blog (1,365)
15. (+37) Peter Rip, Crosslink Capital, EarlyStageVC (1,107)
16. (-1) Rick Segal, JLA Ventures, The Post Money Value (1,043)
17. (-) Mike Hirshland, Polaris Venture Partners, VC Mike’s Blog (1,038)
18. (-2) Jeff Bussgang, Flybridge Capital Partners, Seeing Both Sides (1,018)
19. (+2) Mendelson/Feld, Foundry Group, Ask The VC (1,017)
20. (-2) Tim Oren, Pacifica Fund, Due Diligence (924)

Global VC Blog Directory – Ranked By # of Google Reader Subscribers (Sept 2009)

Posted in Best of VC, Technology, Venture Capital by larrycheng on September 8, 2009

Here is the first quarterly update of the Global VC Blog Directory – originally published in May 2009.  These are the blogs of venture capitalists and VC firms from around the world – ranked by their number of Google Readersubscribers.  Please note, there are many great blogs with fewer subscribers as the number of subscribers doesn’t necessarily correlate to the quality of content.  If I have missed any VC blogs, please leave a comment and I will update the directory no later than the next quarterly update.  To receive these updates, you can subscribe to this blog directly via Google Reader/RSS, email, Kindle, or follow me on twitter (@larryvc).  Alternatively, any of the bulk subscription links below include this blog as well.

Links to subscribe to the Global VC Blog Directory in bulk via Google Reader (RSS/OPML):

• Top VC Blogs:  Top 10, Top 25, Top 50, Top 100
• US VC Blogs:  California, Massachusetts, New York
• Global VC Blogs: Europe, Canada, Israel
• Entire Directory: The Global VC Blog Directory

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Larry Cheng is a partner with Fidelity Ventures. He focuses on investment opportunities in Internet applications, information services, financial services and consumer technologies. Larry currently serves on the boards of Prosper, MFG.com, Cortera, and mindSHIFT. He is also a Board observer on Flock and The New Orleans Exchange. Larry previously led Fidelity Ventures’ investment in Verid which was acquired by EMC. Prior to joining Fidelity Ventures, Larry was a senior associate at Battery Ventures, where he was an early investor in Ruckus Network, OpenNetwork Technologies (acquired by BMC Software) and Ximian (acquired by Novell). From 1998 to 2000, he was an associate for Bessemer Venture Partners where he focused on software investments. Prior to Bessemer, Larry was an associate consultant at Corporate Decisions Inc.