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Re: Few successful entrepreneurs blog

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Post by netcan »

tikhonj wrote: post #10

Few 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 da…

Not sure if this is an example or counterexamle. Both stopped or slowed on the blogging as Stackoverflow got big/mature.

Re: Few successful entrepreneurs blog

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Post by ajlin500 »

flyosity wrote: post #79
ajlin500 wrote: post #49

Gary Vaynerchuk (garyvaynerchuk.com) blogs all the time and runs a highly successful, high growth marketing agency. Although, he mostly video blogs which can take less time than writing if you are good.

His business was built on blogging and vlogging, it's at the core of how he makes money and markets his products. Not the best example because, of course he still blogs and vlogs.

Very true. There is an obvious ROI for him. However, he is one of the busiest guys I know and still manages to make it happen. Regardless of incentive, it shows it is possible to manage both a high growth start up and a powerful personal brand.

Re: Few successful entrepreneurs blog

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Post by tcrorg »

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…

I can also think of KissMetrics CEO Neil Patel http://quicksprout.com/

Re: Few successful entrepreneurs blog

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Post by joeblau »

laCour wrote: post #28
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/

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/

I wouldn't necessarily add Dalton to the category of "Successful" just yet. Although he is a great influencer and a great technologist.

Re: Few successful entrepreneurs blog

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Post by gbog »

jiggy2011 wrote: post #110
gbog wrote: post #84

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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.

Certainly, but essays predates blogging and cover something else, all essays are not blog posts and all blog posts are not essays.

Re: Few successful entrepreneurs blog

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Post by jiggy2011 »

gbog wrote: post #115
jiggy2011 wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Certainly, but essays predates blogging and cover something else, all essays are not blog posts and all blog posts are not essays.

Depends on if you view a blog as a type of content or a method of organising content (electronically distributed, ordered reverse-chronologically , short enough to be consumed in one sitting).

Re: Few successful entrepreneurs blog

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Post by benmoore1982 »

It really depends how you see success... "Success is working towards a predetermined goal" Earl Nightingale How much money does a CEO need to make to be deemed successful? For me people like Ryan Carson are successful because he is on a journey and whilst I admit he doesn't blog now as often as he used too, when he does blog it is about the journey he is on. Mark Suster I would deem successful irrelevant of how much money he has and his blog is brilliant and regular and a great read for any entrepreneur. Just my thoughts :)

Re: Few successful entrepreneurs blog

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Post by lucasnemeth »

tmallen wrote: post #34
davycro wrote: post #27

Reasons 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

> 37signals is an outlier because their readers are potential customers Your readers are always potential customers.

Yes, as in anyone you meet in the street is a potential costumer. So this is a very weak counter-argument. But there are companies that have more economic value in maintaining a blog than others, YC, 37 signals, and other companies that market directly to people who work in the same business, will benefit more from famous blog posts from their CEOs than B2C companies or B2B companies that develop products for companies in different fields.

Re: Few successful entrepreneurs blog

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Post by lucasnemeth »

scotthtaylor wrote: post #76

I wasted 10 minutes reading that entire thread. Probably could have written a blog post in that time.

... Well, but you probably are procrastinating. Writing a blog is a creative effort. And in 10 minutes you only can write a very short or unoriginal blog post...
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