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Re: Few successful entrepreneurs blog

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Post by [deleted] »

amplification wrote: post #20
pg wrote: post #2

Keith'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/

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Re: Few successful entrepreneurs blog

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Post by trevmckendrick »

pg wrote: post #2

Keith'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.

Keith couldn't make up his mind.

When Hunter mentioned the CEO of LinkedIn blogs, Keith said it doesn't count because they're not a startup.

But by definition, the "unicorn" companies are all more like LI than the average startup.

Maybe the question is "at what point does a company cease to be a startup?" At a $1B valuation? Or a significant liquidity event?

Re: Few successful entrepreneurs blog

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Post by selmnoo »

amplification wrote: post #20
pg wrote: post #2

Keith'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/

Sridhar Vembu of Zoho - http://blogs.zoho.com/author/sridhar

Craig Newmark - http://craigconnects.org/blog

Mark Cuban - http://blogmaverick.com

Tim O'Reilly - http://radar.oreilly.com/tim

Yeah, I'm pretty sure evidence to the contrary is stronger. A little googling tells me C-levels and founders of forbes 100 are often proflic bloggers. Novell, Cisco, Oracle, a lot of founders of big companies in India, and many here in the non-tech sector blog as well.

Insofar as commenting on HN and other similar sites is quite similar to blogging, there's a lot of others here too.

Re: Few successful entrepreneurs blog

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Post by oo7jeep »

pg wrote: post #2

Keith'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.

Key points that as I discussed with Keith became clear we were using different definitions:

What is a blog? I'd content any direct communication with the internet at large is in the intent of "blogging".

Which CEOs should count? I have no idea. But for fun lets say $100M+ valued companies.

Does frequency matter? To Keith it does but I think its beside the point.

Does it have to be written personally by the CEO? I would argue not. Many blogs (Svbtle, Medium, Sequoia's) include editing or content help.

So...

If you use the above criteria many many many CEOs blog. From Steve Jobs' letters explaining why Apple has it's stance on Adobe to Elon Musk's discussions about cars catching on fire. Then there are the by almost any definition bloggers mentioned elsewhere in this thread.

Re: Few successful entrepreneurs blog

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Post by [deleted] »

amplification wrote: post #20
pg wrote: post #2

Keith'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/

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Re: Few successful entrepreneurs blog

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Post by tansey »

simonbrown wrote: post #37
amplification wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/

Tom Preston-Werner - http://tom.preston-werner.com/

Looks like Tom hasn't actually blogged in 2 years though. That's not really very regular...

Re: Few successful entrepreneurs blog

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Post by wisty »

pg wrote: post #2

Keith'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.

Selection bias?

Blogging is a marketing strategy. It's not always a good one (time expensive, money cheap). It also works a lot better for some people than others.

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