Venture Capital: Business blogging on rise in Seattle

"Mobile Research founder David Adams started blogging eight months ago as a way to chronicle life inside his newly formed startup technology company. Now, the 36-year-old entrepreneur admits to occasionally suffering from "blog withdrawal" when he doesn't get time to post his comments at www.MobileStartup.com

Adams is one of a handful of entrepreneurs in the Seattle area who have turned to blogging -- online personal journals -- to help tell their stories, market their products and let off a little steam from the daily grind of starting a new company. Many of the blogs attract only a few hundred visitors per week, but the entrepreneurs say it is still a great way to get the message out and put the business in perspective.

"A blog is an ideal way of doing a brain dump on a daily basis of what is going on right now, the weird, the exciting and the awful things" said Adams, whose seven-person company conducts research on mobile phones. "I also wanted to have a record for myself, just for posterity.""

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