A List of Great Blogs to Follow in 2013
Posted on Friday, January 18th 2013. Written by Michal Ugor
I am London based entrepreneur & writer on this website, you can follow my updates at @fortunepick
If you ever searched the web for some of the best startup blogs you surely got across lists of top 100 blogs topped by TechCrunch and other mainstream blogs. Well, those are great online publications by all means, but I prefer solid advice to gossips from Silicon Valley and the idea behind this post is to share some of the less mainstream and more useful blogs for people who actually execute. The main purpose is to hopefully provide you you one or two fresh ideas on some useful weekend reading.
( Surely you’ll be familiar with many already but these are mainly sites I have in my reader and that I found very useful over some time ) Enjoy.
Tech & Entrepreneurship:
--Blogs by Founders
Altucher Confidential by David Altucher founder of Stocktwits
Joel on Software by Joel SpolskySwombat by Daniel Tenner
Only Once Blog by Matt BlumbergBlogs by Solo Founders
The Naive Optimist by Ryan Carson founder of Treehouse
Software by Rob by Rob Walling Blog by Gabriel Weinberg founder of DuckDuckGo
Lean Startups
Steve Blank's Blog
Newsletter Digests
Hacker News Weekly Newsletter - best posts from Hacker News
Podcasts
Keeping track of new startups on the scene
Tech Blogs Covering Asia
Startup Marketing
Blogs by VC’s
Both Sides of the Table by Mark Suster
Paul Graham of Y Combinator
A VC by New York based VC Fred Wilson
Blogs by Patrick Vlaskovits and Brant Cooper authors of 'The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development'
Practice Trumps Theory by Ash Maurya
Startup Digest - events, posts, recent news
Founder Weekly weekly newsletter featuring web's best blog posts
Foundora daily newsletter with strong focus on lean startup related blog posts.
Who's Blogging What - Marketing related content.
Stanford University's Entrepreneurship Corner Collection of over 2000 videos and podcasts by very well-known successful entrepreneurs like Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page or Michael Dell.
Foundation by Kevin Rose founding stories with Kevin Rose as a host
HBR Ideacast Weekly audio podcast by Harvard Business Review on management and leadership.
Keeping track of new startups on the scene
These are not blogs per-se but all 3 sites send out updates on new and trending startups
Angel List a startup / investor network
CrunchBase a startup directory, with updates on trending startups and recent funding
BetaList a newsletter and directory of latest beta startups
Eastist Central & Eastern Europe
Arctic Startup Scandinavia & Baltics
Rude Baguette France
Growth & Marketing:
--Blog by Distilled
PPC
PPC Hero
Analytics
Customer Happiness
Blog by Zendesk
Copywriting
Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Google Analytics BlogeCommerce
My favourite is Smashing Magazine, here are some more ideas:
Personal Productivity & Life Hacking
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99u by Behance
iDoneThis Blog
Buffer App Blog
PsyBlog by Jeremy Dean
Psychology Today, some great author blogs here: Don't Delay by Timothy A. Pychyl, Ph.D, The Science of Willpower by Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D.
Muscle&Fitness You didn't expect this one, did you? Well if you strip away bodybuilders that look like genetic experiment went wrong, you may find this to be a great source of research based articles on nutrition, health and training.
As you can see this is a pretty solid list and surely there are many more great resources, however I strongly encourage you not to spend all your time reading, because:
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