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Little Ludwig Goes a Long Way (John Ludwig, Ignition
Partners)
A
Sack of Seattle (Andy Sack)
A VC
- Musings of a VC in NYC (Fred Wilson, Flatiron Partners,
Union Square Ventures)
A
Venture Forth (Dan Grossman, Venrock Associates)
ABCDVC
(Mark Sherman, Battery)
Above
the Crowd (Bill Gurley, Benchmark Capital)
Adventurista
(Sarah Travel, Bessemer Venture Partners)
Allen's
Blog (Allen Morgan, Mayfield)
Alsop
Louie Partners (Stuart Alsop and Gilman Louie)
Ask The
VC (Brad Feld, Mobius Venture Capital and Jason
Mendelson)
BeyondVC
(Ed Sim, Dawntreader Ventures)
BijanBlog
(Bijan Sabet, Spark Capital)
Brian
Berliner’s Brain
Both Sides
of the Table (Mark Suster, GRP Partners)
Burnham's
Beat (Bill Burnham, Softbank Capital Partners)
China
Venture News (James Borton)
Christine.net
(Christine Herron, Omidyar Network)
Chris Dixon's
blog (Chris Dixon, angel investor)
Class
V (Sachi Gahan, Catamount Ventures)
Cleantech
Investing (Rob Day, Expansion Capital Partners)
Colorado
Startups (David Cohen)
Consuming
Ambitions (Tom Cole, Trinity Ventures)
Cracking
the Code (Philippe Botteri, Bessemer Venture Partners)
Dav-generated
Content (David Dufresne, Desjardins Venture Capital)
Deal
Flow (Justin Hibbard, BusinessWeek)
Deep
Green Crystals (Martin Tobias, Ignition Partners)
Due
Diligence (Tim Oren, Pacifica Fund)
EarlyStageVC
(Peter Rip, Crosslink Capital)
Ego
Ventures (Andrew D. Luter, BaseCamp Capital)
Esther
Dyson's photo blog (Esther Dyson)
Feld
Thoughts (Brad Feld)
Felicis
Ventures (Aydin Senkut)
Florida
Venture Blog (Dan Rua, Inflexion Partners)
"Founder
Frustrations" blog (Norm Wasserman, HBS)
Fred
Destin's Blog (Fred Destin, Atlas Venture)
From
Istanbul To Sand Hill Road (Baris Karadogan, ComVentures)
From
the inside, looking in (Shin Fukushige)
Geekfishing
(Various from Ignition Partners)
Genuine
VC (David H. Beisel, Masthead Venture Partners)
Global-Themes
(Shantanu Bhagwat, Amadeus Capital Partners)
Go
Big or Go Home (Rob Schultz, Illinois Ventures)
GOLB:
Is this Israel? (Ed Mlavsky, Gemini Israel Funds)
Ho
John Lee's Blog (Peak Capital)
How
to Change the World (Guy Kawasaki, Garage Technology
Ventures)
Infectious
Greed (Paul Kedrosky, Ventures West)
Insider
Chatter (Donna Bogatin)
Israel
Venture Capital 2.0 (Daniel Cohen, Gemini Israel
Funds)
Israeli
VC on Sand Hill Road (Tali Aben, Gemini Israel Funds)
Jason
Ball's Techbytes (Jason Ball, London Seed Capital)
John
Cook's Venture Blog (John Cook, Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Kauffman
eVenturing (Ken Berlac, Kauffman)
kiteblog
(William Tai, Charles River Ventures)
Let
the Sparks Fly! (Various from Brightspark Ventures)
Life
With Alacrity (Christopher Allen, Alacrity Ventures)
localglo.be
(Saul Klein, Index Ventures)
Longworth
Venture Partners Blog (Jason Yau, Longworth)
Mark
Andreessen (Andreessen Horowitz)
Mark
Pincus Blog (not technically a VC, but...)
McInblog
(Ryan McIntyre, Mobius / Foundry)
Morten
Lund (Danish angel)
Mr
Wave Theory ("retired silicon valley VC")
Nivi
(Babak Nivi, EIR Atlas Ventures; also produces Venture
Hacks)
Northwest
VC (Steve Hall, Vulcan Capital)
Nothing
To Say (Chris Fralic, First Round Capital)
Nothing
ventured, nothing gained (Jeremy Levine, Bessemer
Venture Partners)
Now
What? (Scott Maxwell, OpenView Venture Partners)
NW
Venture Voice (Various Authors)
OC
VC (Marc Averitt, Okapi Venture Capital)
Occam's
Razor (Marc Goldberg, Occam Capital)
Our
Man in Nirvana (Robin Bordoli, formerly with Mobius)
Outright
VC (Todd Jaquez-Fissori, Siemens Venture Capital)
Oxyfish
(Tom Shields, Woodside Fund)
Pascalsview
(Pascal Levensohn, Levensohn Venture Partners)
Paulgraham.com
(Paul Graham, Y Combinator)
Permanent
Record (Rob Hayes, First Round Capital)
PE Hub
(Dan Primack)
Punctuative
(Matt Winn, Chrysalis Ventures)
PureVC
(CXO Ventures)
Reality
(Susan Wu, Charles River Ventures)
Redeye
VC (Josh Kopelman, First Round Capital)
Release
2.0 (O'Reilly Radar...technically not VC)
Ross
Mayfield's Weblog (Ross Mayfield, Socialtext)
Salman's
blog (Salman Farmanfarmaian, SCP Partners)
Seed Stage
Capital (Nathan Beckord, VentureArchetypes LLC)
Seeing
Both Sides (Jeff Bussgang, IDG Ventures)
Sense
and Cents (George Zachary, Charles River Ventures)
Seriously
clueless (Anand Sriharen, Bessemer)
SF
Venture (Keith Benjamin)
Six
Kids and a Full Time Job (Michael Eisenberg, Benchmark
Capital)
Soaring
on Ridgelift (Stu Phillips, Ridgelift Ventures)
Sortiprenuer
(Cem Sertoglu)
Software
Only (Jeff Clavier, SoftTech VC)
Southeast
VC (Jason Caplain, Southern Capitol Ventures)
Startable (Prasad
Thammineni and Healy Jones)
Startup
Review Blog (Nisan Gaby)
Startups
and Angels (Tim Keane, Golden Angel Network)
TahoeVC
(Robert Goldberg, Ridgelift Ventures)
Tech Startups,
Capital Ideas (David Feinleib, MDV)
TechBytes
(Jason Ball, London Seed Capital)
Technofile
Europe (Max Bleyleben, Kennet Partners)
Texas
Startup Blog (Alexander Muse)
The
Coffee Shops of Mayfair (Paul Fisher, First Capital)
The
Equity Kicker (Nic Brisbourne, Esprit Capital Partners)
TheFunded.com
(VC reviews written by startup founders)
The
Gong Show (Andrew Parker, Union Square Ventures)
The
J Curve (Steve Jurvetson, Draper Fisher Jurvetson)
The
New Normal (Roger McNamee, Elevation Partners)
The
NVA Blog (Ari Newman)
The
Perceptions and Reverie of an Investor and Entrepreneur
(Bradley Twohig, Insight)
The
Post Money Value (Rick Segal, J.L Albright Venture
Partners)
The
VC in me.... (Raj Kapoor, Mayfield Fund)
This
and That (Santo Politi, Spark Capital)
This
is going to be big. I can feel it. (Charlie O'Donnell,
Union Square Ventures)
Tim
Oren's Due Diligence (Pacifica Fund)
TJ's
Weblog (Torsten Jacobi)
Treading
the VC Waters (Sagi Rubin, Gemini Israel Funds)
Union
Square Ventures (Their web site is also a blog...clever)
VC
Adventure (Seth Levine, Foundry Group)
VC
Circle (Sahad PV, Business Today)
VC
Confidential (Matt McCall, Portage Venture Partners)
VC
Ratings (part of The Deal Network; Joshua Jaffe)
VCball
(Steve Brotman, Silicon Alley Venture Partners)
VCinJerusalem
(Jacob Ner-David, Jerusalem Capital)
VCMike's
Blog (Mike Hirshland, Polaris Ventures)
VCMom
(Michelle Goldberg, Ignition)
Venture
Again (Justin Label, Bessemer Venture Partners)
Venture
Beat (Matt Marshall)
Venture
Capital Blogs (American Venture Magazine)
Venture
Capital Cafe
Venture
Chicks (Various women in VC-- roughly 8 and counting)
Venture
Chronicles (Jeff Nolan, formerly SAP Ventures)
Venture
Cyclist (Richard Dale, Sigma Partners)
Venture
Examiner (Aakar Vachhani - Fairview Capital)
Venture
Explorer (Vineet Buch, BlueRun Ventures)
VentureHacks
(by Babak Nivi)
Venture
Intelligence India (Arun Natarajan)
Venture
Law Lines (Suzanne Williams, lawyer, former VC)
Venture
Voice (Gregory Galant, Podcasts and interviews)
VentureBlog
(David Hornik, August Capital, Various Authors)
Ventureblogalist
(Rob Finn, Edison Venture Fund)
Venture
Inside (Kara Nortman, Battery Ventures)
Way
Too Early (Howard Morgan, First Round Capital)
What
Is Left (Chris Sacca, Lowercase Capital)
Who
Has Time For This? (David Cowan, Bessemer Venture
Partners)
Will
Price Blog (Will Price, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners)
Note: This compilation was originally built from various other compilations, and in particular, we'd like to thank and credit Ventureblogs, Andrew Fife, and Applied Destruction for their excellent lists.
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