A rainy three-day weekend creates the perfect opportunity to visit some of our favorite blogs from the New York technology startup scene. -- Mary Kathleen Flynn
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
Written by: Fred Wilson, co-founder with Brad Burnham of Union Square Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on Web 2.0 startups, such as Twitter Inc. and Tumblr Inc.
Why read? Provides a great primer on venture capital. Also offers insights and updates on Union Square's portfolio companies and other promising startups.
Recommended post: The Venture Capital Math Problem. It generated 250-plus comments, some of which are almost as insightful as the post they inspired.
This is Going to Be Big
Written by: Charlie O'Donnell, co-founder of career development site Path101 Inc.; founder of nextNY, a grass-roots community group for tech-savvy 20- and 30-somethings; former analyst at Union Square Ventures.
Why read? Candid reports from an entrepreneur who draws on experience from both sides of the investment equation. Plus a glimpse into the New York tech social scene.
Recommended posts: Venture Realities: Startup financing from the frontlines and She dreams in digital: dating on and off the grid
Trends: Find them, ride them and get off! Stocks, venture and civilization
Written by: Howard Lindzon, co-founder of StockTwits; creator of Wallstrip; founder of Social Leverage, a group that invests in social media startups.
Why read? Colorful commentary from an irreverent entrepreneur and investor. Plus some of the most creative cussing we've come across.
Recommended post: Twitter Files for an IPO....TWEET as Ticker Symbol?
Five Years Too Late
Written by: Stuart Ellman and Eric Wiesen, partners at RRE Ventures, a VC firm that has raised more than $1 billion, invested in 115 companies and had 30 positive exits over the past 15 years.
Why read? A voice, or two, of reason in the venture capital landscape.
Recommended posts: The Perfect Storm, which provides the LP perspective via Ellman, and The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same, a guest post by RRE co-founder Jim Robinson IV that puts the current hand-wringing about the state of the VC inudstry in historical perspective.
Think/Musings
Written by: John Borthwick, co-founder with Andrew Weissman of Betaworks, an innovative firm that both develops Web 2.0 startups (such as Summize, sold to Twitter last year, and Bitly) as well as investing in others, such as Someecards.
Why read? Best analysis of the "Now Web" we've seen. If you still don't get why Twitter and other real-time services are game changers, start reading Borthwick's blog.
Recommended posts: Creative destruction... Google slayed by the Notificator?
