Damn I'd better stop blogging. I want to make sure I'm successful.
You'll need to time to research more irrelevant cat pictures for your blog.
Few successful entrepreneurs blog
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#22Coding 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?
Some people really like writing, or blogging, so they do it anyway, whether is useful or not. I think the point Keith is making that successful people don't have time to blog, or the blog really doesn't help that much. They prioritize their time to do things that actually matter for their business, rather than being on top of HN or being tweeted 1000 times. It's not the whole truth. When you have actually "made it",…
Being tweeted 1000 times actually matters for a business if they have their own marketing machine ready to squire, convert and activated visitors.
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#23just drop the word entrepreneur, and this claim is very plausible
i hate it when a shop owner calls herself CEO, CEO should only be used for very large organizations
yet even if you own a miserably failing business (success is in the eye of the beholder), you can still call yourself entrepreneur, i think keith just overestimate the term entrepreneur
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#24Recently SEC approved Twitter for disclosing material information. I wonder how many CEOs etc will use it.
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#25Damn I'd better stop blogging. I want to make sure I'm successful.
I think you got the Cause-Effect process backwards; when you are successful you will be too busy to blog, but to be successful, initially, you need to market yourself and your products through blogs...
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#27Reasons that I did not blog when I ran a company:
1) I'm a poor writer 2) Any insights that I shared would benefit my competitors and would be insignificant for customers
37signals is an outlier because their readers are potential customers
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#28Keith'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.
If the challenge is to "think of successful entrepreneurs or CEOs who blog", I can think of a bunch off the top of my head: Leo W. at Buffer - http://blog.bufferapp.com/author/leo Ryan Carson at Treehouse - http://ryancarson.com/ Jason Fried & DHH - http://37signals.com/svn Matt Mullenweg - http://ma.tt/ Patio11 - http://www.kalzumeus.com/
Tobi Lütke of Spotify - http://tobi.lutke.com/
Dalton Caldwell of App.net - http://daltoncaldwell.com/
Suhail Doshi of Mixpanel - http://sufficientlyadvanced.net/
Jack Groetzinger of SeatGeek - http://jackg.org/
Eric Koester of Zaarly - http://ekoester.com/
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#29Reasons that I did not blog when I ran a company: 1) I'm a poor writer 2) Any insights that I shared would benefit my competitors and would be insignificant for customers 37signals is an outlier because their readers are potential customers
I think points #2 and #3 are the most important thing. Even if are a great writer, if your potential customers aren't going to be reading your blog, the only person you are helping is your competitors. It just doesn't make sense to blog, you are putting your own ego ahead of the success of your company. If writing helps you do your job better, write to a journal.
And if you think little bits of information can't help competitors, I strongly disagree. A little perspective (like where a company is focusing or where growth is coming from or whatever) can go a long way, and when you blog you are just leaking those things to everybody else.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
What about you, pg? Arguably you are the co-founder of a successful company which takes up most of your time, and you blog. I'm not sure what's the point of this statement. Few successful CEO's blog. Few politicians blog. Few celebrities blog. Few people blog. So what?
pg blogs? Or are you thinking of his essays?
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