Few successful entrepreneurs blog
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#2Keith's comment surprised me. I found at least one counterexample among companies we've funded: Jason Freedman of 42Floors. But there are certainly not many.
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#4I'm a CEO of a co that's doing well.
This comment resonated with me.
Started blogging a few yrs ago, then dropped it.
1) ain't nobody have time for that.
2) too fraught in general. Supposed to be face of company so can't really say anything interesting in a blog.
3) and that Dalton kid posting the millionth "MBA and startups" article: who gives a fuck, what's the use, hire good people that fit... Don't engage in navel gazing analysis.
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#5There is no real causation between blog posting and the success of an entrepreneur but there may be a correlation between success entrepreneurs and whether they are likely to blog. At the end of the day, I don't think it matters. The CEO's transparency and image is all depending on what company it is. The CEO of IBM is less likely to blog than the CEO of Airbnb (I don't know if either of them blog, it's just a comparison).
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#6Jason Fried, 37signals in SVN? I'm not sure that's a good example. It's a bit of an outlier and SVN has components which go to their bottom line (selling books, jobs board.)
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#7Jason Goldberg of Fab blogs regularly at http://betashop.com/ and is surprisingly open about his company and its progress.
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#8Coding Horror?
The whole exchange seems to be @rabois saying "no, that's not a startup. No, that's not what I meant by CEO. No, he doesn't count."
What's his point in making this statement, except to attract attention?
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#9I thought that was the whole point of Daniel Lyons's Fake Steve Jobs blog: that Jonathan Schwartz being a blogging CEO was counter-pointed by Real Steve Jobs as a non-blogging CEO.
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#10Few people blog, full stop. Is the proportion smaller among successful entrepreneurs?
There are a few companies and people that stand out immediately: 37signals, Joel Spolsky, Jeff Attwood, Priceonomics and probably a bunch more that I just don't pay attention to.
The last three really come to mind because blogging is pretty important to their companies. A large reason that StackOverflow had a strong audience from day one is that both Spolsky and Attwood had good followings on their blogs.