Thanks to the example Dawn Foster provides in her FastWonderBlog (and specifically the Yahoo Pipes examples ) following my favorite VC (and entrepreneur) blogs just got easier. With a Yahoo Pipes setup based on one of Dawn’s examples, I’m using the AideRSS website to rank (by popularity) posts from more than 40 VC blogs. So now it’s much easier to see what people are talking about in the VC business. You can view the RSS feed of the ranked/sorted VC feeds at http://www.oregonstartups.com/vc_feeds.html.
The above link will always show the past 7 days of posts from 40+ VC blogs, sorted from most to least popular (as measured by AideRSS, which looks at comments, links to other blogs, etc.) And I’m sure I’ll keep adding blogs to the list.
Here’s a sampling of the past 7 days:
Gmail 5 Second Delay
Rank: 7.4, 3/20/2009, http://jeffnolan.com/wp/feed
Entrepreneurs vs. VCs
Rank: 7.2, 3/18/2009, http://feeds.feedburner.com/FeldThoughts
Can Amazon Run The Table On Cloud Services?
Rank: 6.9, 3/17/2009, http://feeds.feedburner.com/AVc
The Roving Eye: IBM (heart) Sun, +1 CA, Of Cars and Mortgages, H. O. Petard
Rank: 6.7, 3/19/2009, http://due-diligence.typepad.com/blog/index.rdf
Bonuses
Rank: 6.6, 3/18/2009, http://feeds.feedburner.com/AVc
Nothing to Lose (or Risk Tolerance is a Competitive Weapon)
Rank: 6.3, 3/23/2009, http://feeds.feedburner.com/redeyevc
Cloud Computing Streak Marks
Rank: 6.3, 3/16/2009, http://feeds.feedburner.com/FeldThoughts
The Book Market Stares At Ubiquity
Rank: 6.0, 3/22/2009, http://feeds.feedburner.com/AVc
Facebook and the Nature of Power Struggles in Social Networking
Rank: 5.8, 3/22/2009, http://jeffnolan.com/wp/feed/
dotting i’s and crossing t’s
Rank: 5.6, 3/20/2009, http://feeds.feedburner.com/VC_Adventure
SpringStage goes live
Rank: 5.5, 3/18/2009, http://feeds.feedburner.com/ColoradoStartups/
Requiem for an Industry
Rank: 5.5, 3/17/2009, http://due-diligence.typepad.com/blog/index.rdf
Yeah, but he really knows his stuff…
Rank: 5.4, 3/21/2009, http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/atom.xml
What Is A Good Venture Return?
Rank: 5.4, 3/20/2009, http://feeds.feedburner.com/AVc
From Calagator.org, here’s what’s coming up this week:
Monday, Mar 23, 2009
6:00 pm, Portland Data Visualization Group
6:00 pm, Mobile Portland: A Standards-Based Approach to Mobile Web Development
7:00 pm, PDXCritique
Tuesday, Mar 24, 2009
7:30 am, Portland Business Alliance Presents Business Leads Exchange
5:00 pm, SAOpdx: Obama’s Stimulus Plan – What You Need to Know (unconference)
5:30 pm, PDX Nonprofit Tech Day On, Hands On
6:00 pm, Portland Data Plumbing User Group (pdpug)
6:00 pm, IxDA Portland F2F Gathering
6:00 pm, ‘Getting It’: Careers in Social Media
Wednesday, Mar 25, 2009
5:30 pm, Technology Management (networking and meeting)
6:30 pm, PDX Open Source GIS User Group
6:30 pm, Personal Telco Project Monthly Meeting
7:00 pm, Portland JavaScript Admirers’ March Meeting
7:00 pm, Sustainability and Emergency Management
7:00 pm, CocoaHeads: Cocoa Programmers’ Group
Thursday, Mar 26, 2009
5:00 pm, SAOpdx: Getting Back to Work
Friday, Mar 27, 2009
7:30 am, Greenlight Ambassadors Breakfast w/ U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer
9:00 am, BrickFest ’09
11:00 am, The Digital Divide on the air
12:00 pm, Energy Trust Better Living Show
Sunday, Mar 29, 2009
1:00 pm, DorkbotPDX Open Lab
From Calagator.org, here’s this weeks event lineup:
Monday, Mar 16, 2009
10:00 am, Open Geospatial Consortium – Carl Reed
6:00 pm, Supporting a More Caring Economy Community Commons
7:00 pm, DorkbotPDX Meeting
Tuesday, Mar 17, 2009
7:30 am, Portland Business Alliance Presents ShopTalk Showcase
8:00 am, Invest Northwest
4:00 pm, SAOpdx: StartUp Exchange Meetup
6:30 pm, Portland Java User Group: OAuth and REST Web Services
Wednesday, Mar 18, 2009
7:30 am, SAOpdx: Chief Innovation Officer: The New CIO
8:00 am, CanSecWest
4:00 pm, TiE Oregon: Solar Directions – Future of Solar
6:30 pm, XPDX March: Ping Pong Pairing >> PIZZA FROM VERSIONONE <<
Thursday, Mar 19, 2009
7:30 am, AeA Finance Networking Event: Managing During Difficult Times
10:00 am, SAOpdx: Software Selling in a Down Economy (webinar)
11:30 am, OTBC: 7 Issues to Consider for Sustaining & Growing a Business in a Tough Economy
5:00 pm, Strange Love Live is taking the week off
5:00 pm, Startup Now: What Would Your Startup Do With $250,000 in 2009?
7:00 pm, PDXPUG: eXtreme Database Makeover 2: PORTAL
VC Jason Mendelson of Foundry Group gives a VC Crash Course in this video, recorded during a presentation he made to the Silicon Flatirons. It provides a good overview of “what makes VCs tick”.
From the Angelsoft Blog, this video features New York angel investor Roger Ehrenberg who recently led a $1.25 million angel financing of Domdex, a new company in the Internet marketing space. In this interview from the DailyDeal with Mary Kathleen Flynn, Ehrenberg discusses the new breed of serious angels, and why they can be a viable alternative to traditional venture financing.
