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)
- (-) Guy Kawasaki, Garage Technology Ventures, How To Change The World (24,356)
- (-) Fred Wilson, Union Square Ventures, A VC (21,881)
- (+6) Bill Gurley, Benchmark Capital, Above The Crowd (8,897)
- (-1) David Hornik, August Capital, VentureBlog (8,037)
- (-1) Brad Feld, Foundry Group, Feld Thoughts (7,543)
- (-1) Marc Andreesen, TBD, Blog.pmarca.com (5,727)
- (-1) Ed Sim, Dawntreader Ventures, Beyond VC (4,162)
- (-2) Josh Kopelman, First Round Capital, Redeye VC (4,071)
- (-1) Jeremy Liew, Lightspeed Ventures Partners, LSVP (3,512)
- (+3) Seth Levine, Foundry Group, VC Adventure (1,569)
- (-) David Cowan, Bessemer Venture Partners, Who Has Time For This? (1,526)
- (-) Christopher Allen, Alacrity Ventures, Life With Alacrity (1,419)
- (new) Dave McClure, Founders Fund, Master of 500 Hats (1,417)
- (-) Multiple Authors, Union Square Ventures, Union Square Ventures Blog (1,365)
- (+37) Peter Rip, Crosslink Capital, EarlyStageVC (1,107)
- (-1) Rick Segal, JLA Ventures, The Post Money Value (1,043)
- (-) Mike Hirshland, Polaris Venture Partners, VC Mike’s Blog (1,038)
- (-2) Jeff Bussgang, Flybridge Capital Partners, Seeing Both Sides (1,018)
- (+2) Mendelson/Feld, Foundry Group, Ask The VC (1,017)
- (-2) Tim Oren, Pacifica Fund, Due Diligence (924)
I bet Mark Suster’s blog (from GRP) will be on the list next year. Former entrepreneur turned VC, writing about “both sides of the table” – great stuff, some of my favorite posts about venture capital and the relationship between investors and founders
http://www.both...ofthetable.com/
+1
I agree Jason – Mark has a very good and informative blog. Great for early stage entrepreneurs.
he’s killing it right now. top five for sure.
Absolutely agree with Jason here. If the criteria for the Top 20 is just about Google Reader numbers then it doesn’t really have much relevance for me to be honest as I’m not necessarily interested in whose blog is the most “popular”.
I’m far more interested in the content posted and for that, Mark’s site ranks in the top 5 as far as I’m concerned. He’s more candid and frank in his commentaries. Mark posts regularly and shows a real passion for what he’s doing. So far he’s also avoided it becoming a commercial about ME.
awesome to see Dave McClure debut on that list. i never swear. but in honor of this occasion, just for Dave … fuck yea! ^_^
nice reserch this post is interesting to read.
Number 41, Keith Benjamin, died over a year ago.
We will create a Twingly Channel from these, it will be interesting to see the result.
way to market the blog Peter Rip
I could see VCs not wanting the attention unless they are looking for new ventures to fund and then they would want maximum exposure like a blog would provide.
Josh Kopelman #8 congrats. He deserves it, good blogs.
where’s Chris Sacca?
on twitter & four square, of course.
lol, yeah, right… my fault i was looking for him in a blogging VC’s list
VC Christine Herron of First Round Capital is at http://www.christine.net or http://www.twit...r.com/christine
great research !!!
i wish there was a link to export these blog subscriptions into google reader
wishing thinking !!
keep em coming !
great idea sai. I am waiting for the link. btw where is the UserVoice Feedback for TechCrunch? (my next wish)
Ask & MashLogic shall deliver.
Here’s the OPML for the Top 20 VC blogs. You can download this and import into your RSS reader.
You can also see the Term Cloud for these feeds and get a sense of what is top-of-mind for these luminaries. Click on any term to see related articles.
This comment now takes an unpleasant commercial turn.
Why use RSS readers when you can see links to your favorite blogs from every web page? For quick relief, try MashFeeds from MashLogic.
I put an OPML file of the Top 20 here – http://www.dave...0_vc_blogg.html
Thanks guys, for the OPML. I am still waiting for UserVoice, I hope TC is considering it. I believe not only web services buıt also web content can benefit from community support.
What´s a VC blooger?
Venture capitalists – It can be valuable sources of information about the tech community. Not only do they have quality insider information but they also have a knack for figuring out how to evaluate startups.
u should do a post with the top 20 highest paid bloggers
how is paul graham not on this list?
http://www.paul...m/articles.html
good point. arguably #1, definitely top 3.
How come Andressen’s blog is so high in the ranking ? There’s been only one post in months !!
… because they’re timeless, and because he F’ing rocks.
in less than a year, he put out more great material and essays than probably anyone else besides Paul Graham.