The Top 10 Killer Blogs and Resources for Entrepreneurs
December 5th, 2006 by Mike Read more about Recommended BlogsRunning your own Internet business can be extremely rewarding, but at times it can also be extremely challenging.
Fortunately, there is a lot of advice and lots of great resources to help you make your dream come true. Here is a list of the top 10 blogs and resources that I use all the time to build my Internet business.
These bloggers and resources will help you learn how to start your business from scratch, help you find a great idea and help you stay motivated and make your business successful.
Please help me add to this list if you notice that we missed any of your favorite blogs on entrepreneurship.
Top Entrepreneurship Blogs
As a new entrepreneur, you will love this blogs! They cover several topics such as raising money, marketing & sales, and more ecommerce specific issues.
Blog: Springwise
URL: http://www.springwise.com/
Description: Excellent source of inspiration to get smart new business ideas.
Blog: Guy Kawasaki
URL: http://blog.guykawasaki.com/
Description: Venture capitalist blog from Guy Kawasaki, managing director of Garage Technology Ventures.
Blog: Brad Feld
URL: http://www.feld.com/blog/index.php
Description: Another amazing VC blog from Brad Feld, managing director at Mobius Venture Capital.
Blog: Kauffman blog
URL: http://blog.kauffman.org
Description: Entrepreneurs’ Viewpoint Blog on many topics such as finance, human resources, sales & marketing.
Blog: Workhappy
URL: http://www.workhappy.net/
Description: Killer resource for entrepreneurs. Blog referring to many other blogs and articles.
Blog: Joel Spolsky
URL: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/
Description: Huge resource on software development, management, business, and the Internet on this site.
Blog: Andy Budd
URL: http://www.andybudd.com/
Description: Andy Budd’s blog focuses on web design isssues and in particular CSS, web standards, user centered design, information architecture and running a successful web project.
Blog: JohnJantsch
URL: http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/weblog.php
Description: John Jantsch has been called the World’s Most Practical Small Business Expert for consistently delivering real-world proven marketing ideas and strategies.
Other great resources
Blog: Paul Graham
URL: http://paulgraham.com/articles.html
Description: Several interesting articles that you must read such as “The 18 mistakes that kill startups”.
Blog: Standord Entrepreneurship Educators Corner
URL: http://edcorner.stanford.edu/podcasts.html
Description: The Stanford Entrepreneurship Though Leaders seminar series invites one prominent thought leader per week and offers the podcasts for free. A truly excellent resource.
Blog: Business Plan Archive
URL: http://www.businessplanarchive.org/
Description: Welcome to the Business Plan Archive. In partnership with the Library of Congress, the Center for History and New Media, and the University of Maryland Libraries, the Archive collects and preserves business plans and related planning documents from the Birth of the Dot Com Era so that future generations will be able to learn from this remarkable episode in the history of technology and entrepreneurship.
Blog: Startup Nation
URL: http://www.startupnation.com/
Description: Source for Small Business Advice, Help Starting a Business, Entrepreneur Forum
Blog: SBA website
URL: http://www.sba.gov/smallbusinessplanner/index.html
Description: The Small Business Planner from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) includes information and resources that will help you at any stage of the business lifecycle, including how to establish your business plan.
Blog: Lifehack’s 20 Great Resources on Entrepreneurship
URL: http://www.lifehack.org/
Description: Of course no list is complete without at least pointing to one other excellent list with great resources so you can keep on learning.
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Hey cool, cheers mate!
I read some of these blog but a lot I haven’t heard of yet. Thanks for sharing.
A couple I like that you haven’t listed…
http://www.paulallen.net/
http://www.garrettsmith.info/
http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com/
http://brockblake.com/
I also blog a little about entrepreneurship on my blog
http://www.sandbergventures.com
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Thanks for this resource.
I like what you guys are doing. keep up the great work.
– jim
This is a great list of blogs and resources. One more site that I came across recently is a wiki database of business ideas called NewIdeaPedia.com. This site seems to be trying to capitalize on the success of wikipedia. They bill themselves as a wikipedia for new ideas.. The site seems to be growing fast. You may want to add them to your list.
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What a great list of blogs. I am always on the lookout for great blogs that are about home based businesses. This is one list that I am going to keep on hand.
Graet work and and great source of information for an entrepreneur.I have book marked all of them and will try to learn the Internet home business.Thanks anyway.