Reader Question: Best Blogs for Entrepreneurs?

August 29, 2005 in Reader Question

So, as an entrepreneur (or an aspiring entrepreneur)...

If a rabid donkey were guarding your computer and you were only allowed to ever view three  business-oriented blogs again, without getting bitten or kicked, what would they be?

My three would be:

  1. Creating Passionate Users This blog is brimming with brilliant business wisdom, commentary and well-developed (if a bit long winded) ideas.
  2. Duct Tape Marketing I like how he regularly dispatches great marketing ideas.
  3. Signal vs Noise Love him or hate him, (love him!) Jason and crew have something figured out. And they share. A lot. I dig.

(I wish Bnoopy would update more often, he'd be on the list. But if I'm restricted to just three, I don't want one that only updates quarterly.)

What three would you pick?

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Posted by: matt | Aug 29, 2005 6:08:32 PM

I would pick Strange Brand (http://www.strangebrand.com/ ), but I'm perhaps a bit biased.

Since you've already listed three great ones, I'll pick a fresh triumvirate:

Seth Godin
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/
Seth's site simply because he's so consistently good that I've stopped linking to his posts. It would be like highlighting anything good in his books -- you just wind up with a yellow book.

bBlog
http://xplane.com/bblog/
This is one of the best business filter blogs out there. Subscribing to this site allowed me to unsubscribe from about twenty other sites, because anything good wound up being linked here anyway.

To-Done
http://www.to-done.com/
Because it's all just talk unless you can get things done.

Posted by: James Archer | Aug 29, 2005 8:41:22 PM

Eric Sink (http://software.ericsink.com/) and Joel Spolsky (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/) are more software development focused but are a couple of my favourites.

Posted by: Ben Richardson | Aug 29, 2005 9:06:52 PM

Thanks Matt.

And James, spot on about Seth, that's hilarious and exactly how I feel. I've thought: "ok Carson, enough linking to Seth, you might as well just syndicate his blog content onto yours and be done with it." Great tip about pBlog, didn't know about that one.

Ben: totally agree. Their industry is software dev, but both are brilliant and very successful entrepreneurs and excellent writers/teachers to boot.

Posted by: Carson McComas | Aug 29, 2005 9:07:28 PM

http://www.okdork.com : an ultra sexy business blog

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog : great advice on life/business

http://www.paulgraham.com : master of startups

Posted by: noah | Aug 29, 2005 10:02:13 PM

http://www.scottberkun.com/blog Great business focused PM blog

http://www.venturevoice.com/vv.xml Technically a podcast feed - I have enjoyed all but one of the 12 entrepreneur interviews so far

http://feeds.feedburner.com/AVcVentureCapitalAndTechnology - the best of the VC blogs I subscribe to

looking forward to seeing what others come up with :-)

keith

Posted by: keith bohanna | Aug 30, 2005 6:46:57 AM

This one covers a wide range of business improvement topics, including strategic planning, quality control, organizational learning, business process automation, people performance management and measure-driven improvement.

Be Excellent™ - http://www.SixDisciplines.blogspot.com

Posted by: SR009 | Aug 30, 2005 8:52:27 AM

Hugh MacLeod

Posted by: Michael Martine | Sep 2, 2005 8:55:16 PM

Sorry: http://www.gapingvoid.com

Posted by: Michael Martine | Sep 2, 2005 8:56:17 PM

My favourites.

http://www.problogger.net by Darren Rowse from Melbourne
Darren makes over 100K+ per year from blogging so he has a lot to teach in this area.

http://www.business-opportunities.biz by Dane Carlson
Dane has a knack for finding the best entrepreneurship links.

http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com by Yaro Starak
I have to plug myself too but I do provide good content on entrepreneurship and online business.

Posted by: Yaro | Sep 4, 2005 4:28:55 PM

Great comments and links all. Yaro - with a blog that solid, plugging yourself is welcome, thanks.

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