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Re: Few successful entrepreneurs blog

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Post by icebraining »

selmnoo wrote: post #44
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/

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…

Just clicking on the last few posts, Cuban didn't blog from March to October.

Re: Few successful entrepreneurs blog

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Post by gbog »

gbog wrote: post #84
tptacek wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same thing. Blogging used to have a different connotation, but it's lost it, and Graham's site fits squarely into the modern notion.

What? Are you comparing idle blogging emmissions starting with "If you are like me" or "I have always been a huge fan of" or "What I will say has been said already here, there and there but I will repeat it anyway" with pg essays? Are you comparing playdoh "shapes" produced by an army of monkeys monkeying each other with the few and rare carefully carved gemstones we can read under pg's hand? Must be kidding...

Ok, I guess at least 5 bloggers felt wounded by my comment, which was a bit leaking.

Edit: but maybe, if one in hundreds will think twice before writing again something like "If you are like me" in their post...

Re: Few successful entrepreneurs blog

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Post by ronaldx »

davemel37 wrote: post #100

Those who don't engage at the top of the funnel won't be able to afford advertising to the bottom of the funnel. I Can't think of a single founder who blogged high quality original content consistently for more than two years that didn't turn his audience and readership into a successful company. There is a massive misconception about blogging and content marketing in general that gets ignored by people. Creating con…

> I Can't think of a single founder who blogged high quality original content consistently for more than two years that didn't turn his audience and readership into a successful company.

This is statistical nonsense. You are unlikely to be able to think of those founders who don't have successful companies, whether they blogged or not.

In general, we are more aware of founders who blog precisely because they do that. Making a list of blogging founders is pointless unless you have a fair way of listing the non-bloggers.

Re: Few successful entrepreneurs blog

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Post by swombat »

downandout wrote: post #38
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.

There are exceptions to every rule, but I generally agree with Keith's comment. For most successful entrepreneurs, the cost/benefit analysis just doesn't work out. Potential issues range from helping the competition to simply wasting time that would be better spent on the business. Additionally, entrepreneurs often have boards and shareholders that are scrutinizing everything they say. Unless someone has a burning pe…

Those aren't the concerns for me (in-so-far as I'm "successful"). The main problems for me are:

1) time. Running and growing a successful company is an enormous sink of time, energy, mindshare, etc.

2) completeness of thoughts. I don't like to blog about stuff where I don't really know what I'm talking about. That unfortunately is also the most interesting stuff I could blog about at the moment. However, since it's still unfolding and the results of my decisions will take 6+ months or even years to arrive, it's difficult to make a cogent blog post about those decisions. Hindsight is a valuable tool for insight, but I'm still in the middle of all these things.

Re: Few successful entrepreneurs blog

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Post by Cabal »

ericabiz wrote: post #94
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.

I do. (I can't believe the one night I decided to go out with friends, this is the thread that shows up on Twitter--my wheelhouse!) I built and bootstrapped a tech company from the ground up in the Valley. Sold it in 2007 for 7 figures. Then took my personal blog and grew it into one of the top entrepreneurship blogs online. Now running a funded startup and just completed Techstars Austin. Now that I think about it,…

I think the OP means real companies, not startups who blog and don't seem to do much else.

Re: Few successful entrepreneurs blog

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Post by jiggy2011 »

unreal37 wrote: post #13
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.

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?

He's only "arguably" the co-founder of a successful company? Wow , tough crowd!

Re: Few successful entrepreneurs blog

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Post by jiggy2011 »

Surely the more important question is, "is the % of successful entrepreneurs who write blogs moving up or down".

If you think back to the 90s before "blogging" was a thing, the number of entrepreneurs who blogged was approximately 0%.

You could probably rewind to 1995 and say something like "Few successful businesses have a website" but would it naturally follow that investing in a website was a waste of time?

Re: Few successful entrepreneurs blog

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Post by jiggy2011 »

jmount wrote: post #9

I 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.

The genius of Steve Jobs was that he only had to send a few words from his iPhone and others would do the blogging for him.

Re: Few successful entrepreneurs blog

#110

Post by jiggy2011 »

gbog wrote: post #84
tptacek wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same thing. Blogging used to have a different connotation, but it's lost it, and Graham's site fits squarely into the modern notion.

What? Are you comparing idle blogging emmissions starting with "If you are like me" or "I have always been a huge fan of" or "What I will say has been said already here, there and there but I will repeat it anyway" with pg essays? Are you comparing playdoh "shapes" produced by an army of monkeys monkeying each other with the few and rare carefully carved gemstones we can read under pg's hand? Must be kidding...

There's good blogs and shitty blogs. Good music doesn't transcend music and become something else.
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