The Top 50 Startups Blogs to Watch in 2012

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1) TechCrunch

http://techcrunch.com/startups/ - TechCrunch is a leading technology media property, dedicated to obsessively profiling startups, reviewing new Internet products, and breaking tech news.

2) ReadWriteWeb

http://www.readwriteweb.com/ - ReadWriteWeb was founded on April 20, 2003, by Richard MacManus and is now one of the most widely read and respected blogs in the world. To contact ReadWriteWeb about new Web technologies, apps or services.

3) BizSugar Blog & Press Center

http://www.bizsugar.com/blog/ - BizSugar is a small business news site where you can discover, share and vote for the best small-business news, tips, and information on the Web. It’s designed for entrepreneurs and owners and managers of small to medium-sized businesses (SMB businesses). The BizSugar voting system incorporates the wisdom of the masses to funnel through the fluff and provide you with the most useful ideas and news that affect your business.

As an entrepreneur, business owner, manager, marketer or professional, the site allows you to spend more time enjoying your life and work — and less time reading.

4) Mixergy

http://mixergy.com - Today Mixergy is a place where successful people teach ambitious upstarts.

The people who speak on this web site or at live Mixergy events are businesspeople who take some time out of their schedules to help teach others what they learned from their own experiences. They are people like Jimmy Wales who taught us how he got the world to help him make Wikipedia into a world-changing site. And people like Gregg Spiridellis who told us how it felt to watch his company, JibJab, get reduced to almost nothing, and taught us how he turned his business around.

5) OnStartups.com

http://onstartups.com/ - Blog and online community for startup entrepreneurs.

6) Startup Weekend Romania

http://romania.startupweekend.org/ - Startup Weekend is a global network of passionate leaders and entrepreneurs on a mission to inspire, educate, and empower individuals, teams and communities. Come share ideas, form teams, and launch startups.

7) AVC musings  of a  VC in NYC

http://www.avc.com/ - Fred Wilson – I am a VC. I have been since 1986. I help people start and build technology companies. I do it in NYC, which isn’t the easiest place to build technology companies, but it’s getting better.

I love my work. I am the Managing Partner of two venture capital firms, Flatiron Partners and Union Square Ventures.

I also am a husband and a father of 3 kids. I do that in NYC too. And it isn’t the easiest place to raise a family either. But it’s getting better too. I love my family more than my work.

I also love music, art, yoga, biking, skiing, and golf. That’s a lot of interests for a guy who works 70 hours a week and loves his family. But I manage to make it work.

8) 500 Startups

http://500.co/blog/ - 500 Startups provides early-stage companies with funding ranging from $10K to $250K via seed investments, our startup accelerator program, and new micro-fund models like the Twilio Fund. With over 160 experienced startup mentors around the world, creative work space in the heart of Silicon Valley, and a vibrant community of startup founders, we help our companies succeed in ways other venture firms do not. We are 500.

9) Chris Dixon

http://cdixon.org/2011/03/05/seo - Chris Dixon - Co-founder/CEO of Hunch (acquired by eBay).

Co-founder of Founder Collective, an early-stage seed venture fund.

Personal investor in early-stage technology companies, including Skype, Foursquare, Kickstarter, Canvas, Stack Overflow, Gerson Lehrman Group, Knewton, OMGPOP (acquired by Zynga), Bloomreach, Optimizely, TrialPay, DocVerse (acq by GOOG), Invite Media (acq by GOOG), and ScanScout (acq by Tremor Video), and a few companies in “stealth mode.”

10) StartupChile

http://startupchile.org/ - Start-Up Chile is a program created by the Chilean Government, executed by Corfo via InnovaChile, that seeks to attract early stage, high-potential entrepreneurs to bootstrap their startups in Chile, using it as a platform to go global. The end goal of the accelerator program is to convert Chile into the definitive innovation and entrepreneurial hub of Latin America; this is a mission shared by the Government of Chile and is a primary focus of the Ministry of Economy.

11) Startups.com

http://startups.com/ - Startups.com is all about Impressive customer service, money back guaranteed, Easy to unsubscribe, participatoin, experience, trust & growth.

12) Startup Lessons Learned

http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/ - Eric Ries is the creator of the Lean Startup methodology and the author of the popular entrepreneurship blog Startup Lessons Learned. He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms. In 2010, he became an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Harvard Business School.

13) A smart bear

http://blog.asmartbear.com/ - Jason Cohen is the founder of Smart Bear Software, maker of Code Collaborator. He was also a founding member of ITWatchdogs, another bootstrapped startup which became profitable and was sold, and is a mentor at Capital Factory. He is the author of Best Kept Secrets of Peer Code Review, which examines modern, lightweight methods for doing peer code review effectively without everyone hating life. He also blogs regularly at A Smart Bear.

 

14) Gabriel Weinberg’s Blog

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/ - Gabriel Weinberg – I’m the founder of DuckDuckGo and an angel investor.

 

 

 

 

15) Startup Professionals Musings

http://blog.startupprofessionals.com/ - Martin Zwilling – CEO & Founder of Startup Professionals, Inc.; Callaman Ventures Board Member and Executive in Residence; Advisory Board Member for multiple startups; ATIF Angels Selection Committee; Entrepreneur in Residence at ASU and Thunderbird School of Global Management. See me on Twitter as StartupPro, and on LinkedIn and Facebook by name. Published on Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and Huffington Post.

 

16) Startup Grind

http://startupgrind.com/ - Startup Grind in a community of founders, entrepreneurs, and wantrapreneurs looking to be inspired, educated, and network with the smartest startup minds.

Startup Grind originally started with a meeting where our friends would get together and chat at night in early 2010 in our 1000 sqft office in Mountain View CA. It was a chance for us to brainstorm, provide feedback on each others ideas, and hopefully spawn the next big thing.

17) GrowVC

http://www.growvc.com/blog/ - Grow Venture Community (Grow VC) is the first global, transparent, community-based platform dedicated to entrepreneurs and investors.  Grow VC enables great ideas and great teams to get visibility with the right investing audience, funding and support earlier. Grow VC is more than crowd funding, it’s a nurturing ecosystem where entrepreneurs can connect with experts, funders, team members, new customers and partners to realize their ideas. Grow VC can help startups companies secure initial funding of up to 1M USD.

18)  StartupNorth

http://startupnorth.ca/ - StartupNorth is written by Jonas Brandon, Jevon MacDonald, David Crow and a ensemble of others. We are entrepreneurs who, while running our own startups, decided it was time to talk about what is going on in the Canadian startup community.

19) Design Staff

http://www.designstaff.org - Design Staff is a new blog dedicated to helping startups design great products. We write for both entrepreneurs and designers. For entrepreneurs, we’ll be discussing how to build a design practice at your company: how to do design yourself, how to recruit design talent, and how best to collaborate with designers. For designers, we’ll share the lessons we’ve learned along the way about practicing design at early-stage companies.

20) Funders and Founders

http://fundersandfounders.com - We connect VCs, angels, and founders who build amazing startups with investors through start-up demo and pitch events.

21) Rocket Watcher – Product marketing for startups

http://www.rocketwatcher.com - Rocket Watcher is my personal blog covering marketing for startups including messaging, market strategy, lead generation and metrics. I’ve run marketing at startups including Janna Systems, DataMirror, and Infobright. I’ve also held executive positions at Siebel Systems and IBM.

22) Leo Starts up

http://leostartsup.com/ - Hi, I’m Leo Widrich, Co-Founder of Buffer, a new way to Tweet and share Facebook posts.

On this blog I share my insights on life, my startup journey and marketing lessons learnt.

 

 

23) The Methodologist

http://torgronsund.com/ - A methodologist is one who studies methodology – a methodology is the system of methods and principles used in a particular discipline tech entrepreneurship.

24) Startup Boy

http://startupboy.com/ - Naval Ravikant - I am the CEO and co-founder of AngelList. I previously co-founded Epinions (which went public as part of Shopping.com) and Vast.com. I’m an active Angel investor, and have invested in dozens of companies, including Twitter, Uber, Docverse and Jambool (both sold to Google), and Mixer Labs and Fluther (both sold to Twitter).

 

25) Start Up Blog

http://startupblog.wordpress.com/ - Steve Sammartino is the director of planning and integration at Grey Group Australia.

Steve has been involved in the marketing and communications arena for over 15 years. He has a wealth of traditional marketing and client planning experience, as well as an enormous amount of knowledge on digital strategy and integration based thinking. He has worked with a variety of agencies via his client roles at leading global consumer goods firms. These include Kraft, Fosters, P&G (Gillette) and Kimberly Clark. Steve has worked on many global brands both in Australia, Asia Pacific and Europe. Steve has strong brand marketing credentials, and is also sessional Marketing Lecturer and Tutor at Melbourne University.

Steve has spent the last three years building a .com business called www.rentoid.com – a peer to peer renting portal, which now the global leader in this category. Through this he has a rare skill set combining traditional & new media. His blog www.startupblog.wordpress.com is the most followed start-up/entrepreneurs blog in the world.

26) Aaronontheweb

http://www.aaronstannard.com/ - My name is Aaron, I’m an entrepreneur and a .NET developer who develops web, cloud, and mobile applications.

I recently joined Microsoft as a Startup Developer Evangelist in Southern California (Santa Monica) and help evangelize the BizSpark program and the .NET platform to startups.

27) theStartup

http://www.thestartup.eu/ - theStartup.eu, founded in April 2009, is a weblog that covers the european startup scene. It is focused on technology companies, web applications, social media, growth entrepreneurship and venture capital. We believe that Europe, even thought still far away from the Valley’s standards, has a huge potential and we’re here to help you discover it.

28) The Startup Success Podcast

http://startupsuccesspodcast.com - The mission of The Startup Success Podcast is simple: make microISVs, startups, Mac indies and everyone pursuing the dream, challenge and reality of starting their own software company more successful.

Each week, we hope to bring you about 20 minutes of valuable information on the business, technical and social developments, tools and trends that will give you an assist in your startup.

29) Jordan Cooper’s Blog: startups, venture capital, Hyperpublic

http://jordancooper.wordpress.com/ - Jordan Cooper – I’m a NYC based entrepreneur. I think there is one metric that can be used to measure the value of a human life and that’s impact. How did you change things? How many people did you touch? How different is the world because you lived in it and how positive was the change that you affected?

30) BHOPU

http://bhopu.com/ - We all are aware of how the Web2.0 movement has changed the way people build websites, and how Web 2.0 standard websites are springing up in droves. Everyday brings new and interesting Blog site launches to the Internet. We at Viscus Infotech have entered the Big Splash as well by launching our very brand new blog site”Bhopu”. The content on Bhopu is the driving force of our blog site – information any visitor would want to read and enjoy, which has prompted us to write articles that enhance the user experience. While not technically necessary, our approach is much more impressive to new vistors. By identifying our readers and placing blogs on related subjects we are trying to start relationships, not close a deal.

Bhopu reflects a clear picture of possible social media, new technology introduced, social networking and new website launch. A Web 2.0 Blog site built on ASP.Net 2.0, AJAX and SQl Server 2005, Bhopu aims at being an informative and interactive medium. The community aspect is a very important part of Bhopu and it is the users posting articles that will drive the content, comments, reviews and insight on websites and technologies. All Internet users are encouraged to subscribe to the Bhopu RSS feed to stay abreast of the latest in website trends.

31) Startup Life

http://www.startuplifeblog.com/ - Josh Sookman – CEO at Guardly. Past VC. Advisor to tech companies and youth entrepreneurs. [StartupDigest] curator. Tech community supporter & evangelist. Wakeboarding nut.

 

 

 

32) VcDave

http://www.vcdave.com - Dave Feinleib - I am an investor, advisor, and serial entrepreneur.

From 2009 – 2011 I was a General Partner at Mohr Davidow, a venture capital firm with $2B under management. I led the first institutional rounds in RootMusic, the #1 entertainment app on Facebook; doxo, the premier digital filing cabinet; and VirtuOz, the leading virtual customer service company. RootMusic recently closed a $16M follow-on financing; doxo, a $10M round, and VirtuOz a $7M round. I was a Principal at Mohr Davidow from 2006 – 2008.

Prior to joining Mohr Davidow, I started four companies, one of which was acquired by Hewlett Packard, another by Keynote Systems. Before that I was a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft, promoting the then unknown Windows operating system.

In 2011, my love for entrepreneurship took me back to working on my own ventures, while continuing to advise and invest in others. I hold an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA Summa Cum Laude from Cornell University, where I was a Kodak Scholar. I’m an avid triathlete and violinist.

33) MetaJack.im

http://metajack.im/ - Jack Moffitt - I’m an entrepreneur and a hacker.

My current project is called Chesspark and is an online community for chess players built on top of technologies like XMPP (aka Jabber), AJAX, and Python.

Previously I created the Icecast Streaming Media Server, spent a lot of time developing and managing the Ogg Vorbis project, and helping create and run the Xiph.org Foundation. All these efforts exist to create a common, royalty free, and open standard for multimedia on the Internet.

I am passionate about Free Software and Open Source, technology, music, and photography.

34) Startup Iceland

http://blog.startupiceland.com - Our agenda is to build a sustainable entrepreneurial eco-system through best practice tools and advice for Iceland. We are starting with a conference on “Building Sustainable Entrepreneurial Ecosystem.”

35) Small Hands Big Ideas

http://smallhandsbigideas.com/ - Grace Boyle – Small Hands, Big Ideas is a conglomeration of my ideas and covers my life as a woman in a tech startup, daily inspirations, career, moving, relationships and ideas as a 20-something.

Thousands of Generation Y leaders, thinkers, and curators visit Small Hands, Big Ideas each month. We have fun, we keep it real and inspiration spins. Hold on to your Fedoras.

36) Women 2.0

http://www.women2.com - Our mission is to increase the number of female founders of technology startups. Women 2.0 enables entrepreneurs with a network, resources and knowledge to take your startup from idea to launch.

37) From the Start-up Trenches

http://kevindewalt.com/blog/ - Microthoughts of a entrepreneur, lean startup advocate, investor, and life extension supporter. Moving to Beijing, China in March, 2012.

38) Startup Biz Blog

http://www.startupbizblog.com/ - Startup Biz Blog was started one night after I realized that all the information I learned through business school was sub-par and I needed to learn it all for myself. I decided that I would share my ideology with other people that are looking for startup / small business advice. Thus, this blog was formed. I’m hoping to give excellent advice and know-hows for anyone that needs the information.

The goal of this blog is to bring together the best advice and resources to get businesses off the ground and also to help take existing small businesses to the next level. If you think you have some great advice that future or existing businesses owners / entrepreneurs would be interested in hearing, email me, kevin{at}startupbizblog.com or feel free to contact me through twitter.

39) Fashion Startups

http://fashionstartup.org/ - We connect fashion startups, app developers and retail entrepreneurs to possible venture capitalists or angel investors. We facilitate successful pitch/ networking events and workshops focused in the fashion and tech industries.

40) Startup Baltimore

http://startupbaltimore.org/ - Startup Baltimore is an online publication and organization focused on the early-stage tech and innovation community in Baltimore, Maryland. Beyond this blog, our community consists of local entrepreneurs and valuable resources sharing a common goal of accelerating entrepreneurship in the region.

This website, StartupBaltimore.org, publishes content on tech news, events, profiles and opinions in and around Baltimore.

41) HealthyStartups

http://healthystartups.com - Healthy Startups brings you stories focused on new technologies and social media and their impacts on our health.

The pace of change in the world of health care, driven by new technology, research and the empowerment of patients through social media, has never been greater.

Healthy Startups explores the bridge between these emerging technologies, the people who create them and the people who are empowered by them to take better charge of their own health.

Healthy Startups was founded in November 2010 by Jason Berek-Lewis. A survivor of 3 open heart surgeries and recipient of a St. Jude Mitral Mechanical Valve in 1981. Jason lives and works in health care communications/ public relations in Melbourne, Australia.

42) Generation-Y startup

http://genystartup.com/ - Tolu Babalola - Founder of @College2Startup, Fan of the Internet, Liverpool FC enthusiast. Opinion is mine, wit & charm also mine.

43) Startup Product Manager

http://www.startupproductmanager.com/ - Anand Rajaram - In this blog, I present my thoughts as I see them from the intersection of Technology, Marketing and the Customer.

44) StartupTrekTv

http://startuptrek.net - Steve Bell - Startup Trek TV has been my technology industry video blog, during a time of transition for me between businesses.

For a time in the recent past, I enjoyed interviewing promising tech startups on video tape, then compressing it down into a 3-5 minute video. That is what this blog is about. Over the next six months, I’ll be moving all of these videos onto YouTube, deleting my blog posts, and shutting down this site.

All of my posts on StartupTrek featured my own photography, and when possible, video coverage. I will be posting an honorarium about each startup that we interviewed. Thanks, everyone!

45) Brad Hargreaves | Startup adventures in NYC

http://bhargreaves.com/ - Brad Hargreaves - Founding partner at General Assembly, an urban campus for entrepreneurs in Manhattan along with Adam Pritzker, Matthew Brimer and Jake Schwartz. I’ve started a number of companies, including Free Awesome, PickTeams, Aloysius Properties, LabApp, and PayoutHub. The latter was sold to Strategic Design Network in January 2010.

 

46) Solid Startups

http://solidstartups.com/ - There is a key difference between a startup and an established business: startups move quickly.

Sure, that’s obvious, but the reasons for it aren’t. Necessity plays a large part: companies that don’t get funded fast, get customers fast, and displace their competitors fast can at least be fast in finding the Deadpool. Beyond that, though, there is an equally important reason startups can move quickly: startups have no history.

Or at least not a lot of history. This is a big deal. While the big companies lumber along under the burden of entrenched cultures, enshrined processes, existing product lines, deep politics, established workforce dimensions, and a host of other legacy attributes, the startup can create and change. It is the one environment in which change is not only possible, but necessary.

47) Startups Unplugged

http://www.startupsunplugged.com - Paul Orlando - Startup Co-founder & CEO, now mostly focused on teaching other early-stage founders. I have an intense passion for understanding people and building great products. Love collaborating with other entrepreneurs. Good at finding talented people and challenging them to do great work.

 

 

48) Sweden 100 – Tracking the Swedish startup-o-sphere

http://www.sweden100.com - This site is dedicated to Swedish startups. It gives you a brief and quick overview of some digital services produced in Sweden.

49) SustainableStartup - http://www.cameronchell.com/sustainablestartup/ - Cameron Chell - I spend my time with investors and executives to determine what is most important and how to specifically achieve it. My career experience has been based around working with and leading teams to develop and finance new projects, technologies, companies or industries. The most notable of these would be the founding of the Application Service Provider industry, www.aspindustry.org, as well as the world’s first Application Service Provider, FutureLink, (google: Futurelink, asp). The industry is thriving and a cornerstone of the internet tech space.

50) Hot & Top European Web 2.0 Startups

http://hoteurostartups.wordpress.com - Markus Wagner - This blog gives an overview / list of hot European startups (web 2.0, B2C, B2B, mobile, internet) and my private opinion.

I was searching for interesting web 2.0 companies out of Europe. I was searching for those, which are well known, those which will be important in 2 years from now…. I couldn’t find a valid objective source, so I’m starting my own blog, sharing my thoughts with you.I’m European, I’m living in New York – I’m working in the web 2.0 business; always looking for the next exciting idea. My team and I are investing in hot European startup’s and help them grow (i5invest web 2.0 business incubator/start-up factory). I’m an entrepreneur, most of them are.

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