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Venture Capital (VC) Blog Directory – 2011 Edition

Posted in Technology, Venture Capital by larrycheng on January 19, 2011

This is the 4th edition of the Venture Capital Blog Directory (1st edition, 2nd edition, 3rd edition).  This directory includes 149 venture capital, microVC/seed, and growth equity blogs.  The imperfect statistic used to rank these blogs is their average monthly uniques in Q410 from Compete (more methodology info below).  Blogs that have seen increased traffic over Q409 by 1,000+ uniques/month are highlighted in bold.  There is an additional list below of VC blogs below that had insufficient Compete data.  To subscribe to the top 15 VC blogs through Google Reader, click here: Top 15 VC Blogs.  As always, if there is any information missing or incorrect, please leave it in the comment field.  Many thanks to my colleagues at Volition Capital for their assistance with this directory – we hope it’s a useful service for everyone.   

The Global VC Blog Directory (Q410 Avg. Monthly Uniques)  

  1. Paul Graham (@paulg), YCombinator, Essays (97,227)
  2. Fred Wilson (@fredwilson), Union Square Ventures, A VC (81,483)
  3. Mark Suster (@msuster), GRP Partners, Both Sides of the Table (53,655)
  4. Brad Feld (@bradfeld), Foundry Group, Feld Thoughts (38,821)
  5. Chris Dixon (@cdixon), Founder Collective, cdixon.org (20,988)
  6. David Skok (@bostonvc), Matrix Partners, For Entrepreneurs (14,173)
  7. Charlie O’Donnell (@ceonyc), First Round Capital, This is Going to be Big (13,970)
  8. Larry Cheng (@larryvc), Volition Capital, Thinking About Thinking (13,215)
  9. Dave McClure (@davemcclure), 500 Startups, Master of 500 Hats (11,127)
  10. Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz), Andreesen Horowitz, Ben’s Blog (10,686)
  11. Jeremy Liew (@jeremysliew), Lightspeed Ventures Partners, LSVP (9,344)
  12. Bijan Sabet (@bijan), Spark Capital, Bijan Sabet (8,256)
  13. Ryan Spoon (@ryanspoon), Polaris Venture Partners, ryanspoon.com (7,828)
  14. Albert Wenger (@albertwenger), Union Square Ventures, Continuations (7,469)
  15. Roger Ehrenberg (@infoarbitrage), IA Capital Ventures, Information Arbitrage (7,182)
  16. Rob Go (@robgo), NextView Ventures, robgo.org (6,934)
  17. Josh Kopelman (@joshk), First Round Capital, Redeye VC (6,778)
  18. David Cowan (@davidcowan), Bessemer Venture Partners, Who Has Time For This? (5,993)
  19. Mendelson/Feld (@foundrygroup), Foundry Group, Ask The VC (5,963)
  20. Bill Gurley (@bgurley), Benchmark Capital, Above The Crowd (5,428)
  21. Jeff Bussgang (@bussgang), Flybridge Capital Partners, Seeing Both Sides (5,223)
  22. David Hornik (@davidhornik), August Capital, VentureBlog (5,157)
  23. Seth Levine (@sether), Foundry Group, VC Adventure (4,858)
  24. Eric Friedman (@ericfriedman), Union Square Ventures, Marketing.fm (4,706)
  25. Andrew Parker (@andrewparker), Union Square Ventures, The Gong Show (3,854)
  26. Mark Peter Davis(@markpeterdavis), DFJ Gotham Ventures, Venture Made Transparent (3,602)
  27. Lee Hower (@leehower), NextView Ventures, AgileVC (3,459)
  28. Christine Herron (@christine), Intel Capital, Christine.net (2,484)
  29. Will Price, Hummer Winblad, Will Price (2,348)
  30. Jon Steinberg (@jonsteinberg), Polaris Venture Partners, Jon Steinberg (2,318)
  31. Jason Mendelson (@jasonmendelson), Foundry Group, Mendelson’s Musings (2,171)
  32. Marc Andreesen (@pmarcablog), Andressen Horowitz, Blog.pmarca.com (2,151)
  33. Jon O’Shaughnessy (@j_oshaughnessy), Dace Ventures, jonoshaughnessy.org (2,095)
  34. Sarah Tavel (@sarahtavel), Bessemer Venture Partners, Adventurista (1,968)
  35. Ed Sim (@edsim), Dawntreader Ventures, Beyond VC (1,948)
  36. Mike Hirshland (@vcmike), Polaris Venture Partners, VC Mike’s Blog (1,910)
  37. Dan Rua (@danrua), Inflexion Partners, Florida Venture Blog (1,510)
  38. Rob Hayes (@robhayes), First Round Capital, Permanent Record (1,509)
  39. Matt McCall, DFJ Portage Venture Partners, VC Confidential (1,430)
  40. Mo Koyfman (@mokoyfman), Spark Capital, Mo Koyfman (1,422)
  41. Fred Destin (@fdestin), Atlas Venture, Fred Destin’s Blog (1,405)
  42. David Feinleib (@vcdave), Mohr Davidow Ventures, Tech, Startups, Capital, Ideas. (1,353)
  43. Rick Segal (@ricksegal), JLA Ventures, The Post Money Value (1,308)
  44. Alex Taussig (@ataussig), Highland Capital, Infinite to Venture (1,239)
  45. Christopher Allen (@christophera), Alacrity Ventures, Life With Alacrity (1,188)
  46. Nic Brisbourne (@brisbourne), Esprit Capital Partners, The Equity Kicker (994)
  47. Chris Fralic (@chrisfralic), First Round Capital, Nothing To Say (844)
  48. Ouriel Ohayon (@ourielohayon), Isai.fr, MYBLOG by Ouriel (799)
  49. Multiple Authors, Highway 12 Ventures, Highway 12 Ventures Group (780)
  50. Martin Tobias (@martingtobias), Ignition Partners, Deep Green Crystals (723)
  51. David B. Lerner (@davidblerner), Columbia Seed Fund, David B. Lerner (716)
  52. Baris Karadogan, ComVentures, From Istanbul to Sand Hill Road (615)
  53. Dan Grossman, Venrock Associates, A Venture Forth (614)
  54. Jason Caplain (@jcaplain), Southern Capitol Ventures, Southeast VC (599)
  55. David Aronoff (@dba), Flybridge Capital Partners, Diary of a Geek VC (539)
  56. Mike Speiser, SutterHill Ventures, Laserlike (490)
  57. Tomas Tunguz (@ttunguz), Redpoint Ventures, Ex Post Facto (441)
  58. David Beisel (@davidbeisel), NextView Ventures, GenuineVC (427)
  59. Eric Ver Ploeg (@everploeg), Metric Ventures, Pocket Watch (403)
  60. Allan Veeck (@aveeck), Pittsburgh Ventures, Pittsburgh Ventures (353)
  61. Ryan McIntyre (@ryan_mcintyre), Foundry Group, McInblog (314)
  62. Satya Patel (@satyap), Battery Ventures, Venture Generated Content (310)
  63. Saul Klein (@cape), Index Ventures, LocalGlo.be (306)
  64. John Ludwig (@jhludwig), Ignition Partners, A Little Ludwig Goes A Long Way (296)
  65. Pascal Levensohn (@plevensohn), Levensohn Venture Partners, pascalsview (251)
  66. Derek Pilling, Meritage Funds, Non-Linear VC (250)
  67. Kent Goldman (@kentgoldman), First Round Capital, The Cornice (217)
  68. Rob Finn (@robfinn), Edison Venture, Ventureblogalist (215)
  69. Rich Tong (@richtong), Ignition Partners, Tongfamily (190)
  70. Jeff Joseph (@venturepopulist), Prescient Capital Partners, Venture Populist (137)
  71. Chip Hazard (@chazard), Flybridge Capital Partners, Hazard Lights (131)
  72. Paul Fisher, Advent Venture Partners, The Coffee Shops of Mayfair (122) 
  73. Jason Ball (@jasonball), Qualcomm Ventures Europe, TechBytes (47)
  74. Ted Rogers (@vcbrazil), PPI Ventures, Venture Capital Brazil (35)
  75. Greg Foster, Chrysalis Ventures, SouthernVC (15)
  76. Michael Cichowski (@mcichows), Edison Venture Fund, Digital Goggles (14)

Other VC Blogs

This list includes other VC blogs that didn’t make the primary directory for one of the following reasons: (1) They don’t have any Q410 Compete data due to insufficient traffic, (2) There was insufficient data on the blog subdomain, or (3) They are a hybrid blog/corporate website meaning the actual blog traffic is hard to decipher.  They are in no particular order.

(Methodology:  We aggregated the unique visitors for each blog on Compete.com for Oct-Dec 2010, and then divided by three to get a monthly unique traffic score.   If blogs only had data for one or two of the months, it was presumed that the missing months had no traffic and the aggregate number was still divided by three.)

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