In the news (again): VC blogs

Last week i was again mentionned (with others) in the news in an article dedicated to Venture Capital blogs and concluding that more VCs should come to it. 

Blogging is a huge trend in the US and only starts in Israel.

The article is mentionning a few of my Gemini fellows (i recommend you to read) as well as the blog of Michael Eisenberg from Benchmark (our neighbour from downstairs i still don’t know)

The article came online (sorry it is in hebrew only) and also in the press (featuring mine in picture). From the reactions on the article people don t really seem to understand the benefit of doing a blog specially when you are in the VC courtyard.

Blog is a killer tool to build quality network and generate fantastic deal flow. It is also one of the best way i know to save the first steps of a meeting where you need to introduce yourself (i realize that most of the people i met with read my blog before the meeting) and gives a new dynamic to the meeting.

I actually started blogging even before i began to think i would work in the VC world. Actually i started to read blog from famous VCs a while ago. If you are interested in the sector i recommend you a few of them:

• Guy Kawazaki
• Jeff Clavier
• Josh Kopelman (founder to Half.com)
• Union Square Ventures (behind Delicious)
• A VC
• VentureBlog (David Hornik)
• Alarm Clock (to be informed of all deals)

They provide plenty of useful information to understand this industry and will certainly help entrepreneurs prepare better their search for funding. But they are not only related to investment as most of them feature other subjects (which is great to know better a personn). Each of them will give you access to tones of other good VC bloggers

Thanks to Guy Grimland from TheMarker to put that together.

PS: by the way some VCs don t have a website and prefer having directly a blog (like Union Square Ventures) and i believe we will do the same with LGiLAB

Comments

[rambu]

we want GUY HOROWITZ blog too

[Guy Horowitz]

Yeah, I want my blog too. The problem is that wanting one is not enough, someone actually has to write it ;)

Let's just say I'm "in the research phase".

[the alarm:clock]

Thanks Ouriel
If/when anyone ever asks us what VC blogs we enjoy, we would surely have you high on the list.

It strikes us as suprising that the vast majority of VCs don't yet see the value in blogging. It might have taken us another year of two before we had heard of Ouriel if not for your blog. Here we have a great first impression.