A lot of venture capitalists also happen to be good writers. Many of these incredibly busy people find time to blog and are quire prolific. But most of the VCs who blog seem to be in the US, some in Europe and almost none in India.
Why don’t Indian VCs blog? I know some of them to be pretty good writers and certainly excellent thinkers. I do know that Alok Mittal at Canaan Partners blogs at Venturewoods but that’s about it. The other day while browsing through the Clearstone Venture Partners website, I came across ‘Blog’ next to Rahul Khanna and Sumant Mandal’s profiles. On further investigation, however, I was disappointed to find that neither has started posting yet. Well at least the intent is there.
A couple of VCs in the US say they find it quite useful to connect with start-ups and entrepreneurs via their blogs. If nothing else, blogs can be a great ice-breaker particularly for young entrepreneurs who often find the whole concept of venture investing formidable.
As for me, I’ve met a few interesting people just as people on such blogs. Browse though a few of my favourite reads on blogosphere:
- Venture Explorer – Vineet Buch, BlueRun Ventures
- A little ludwig goes a long way — John Ludwig, Ignition Partners
- Bijan Blog – Bijan Sabet, Spark Capital
- The J Curve – Steve Jurvetson, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
- Who has time for this – David Cowan, Bessemer Venture Partners
- Israel Venture Capital 2.0 – Daniel Cohen, Gemini Israel Funds
I’d love to see a local name on this list soon.
thx for the kind words.
Interesting post. I work for a corporate involved a bit in vc activities and have often surfed blogs. By the way I have been following your work for sometime and you are doing a good job both here and in the biz paper. Anil
Snigdha,
Well – not strictly Indian VC since he does not work out of India, but Raj Kapoor, managing director of Mayfield Fund, blogs.
http://vcinme.typepad.com/vc/
Anand Sridharan seems to have stopped blogging – http://radventure.blogspot.com/
Among VC blogs, I like Fred Wilson (http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/), Brad Feld (www.feld.com/blog) and Paul Kedrosky (paul.kedrosky.com, Josh Kopelman (redeye.firstround.com) too – I am a regular on the last three.
Here is another list: http://www.applieddisruption.com/2006/10/103_venture_cap.html