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  snasta 2:22 pm on February 9, 2015 Permalink  

  Best Blogs for Entrepreneurs from HBS’ Tom Eisenmann 

  

  There are thousands of blogs dedicated to entrepreneurship and business.   Finding time to read all of them is near impossible.  Harvard Business School professor Tom Eisenmann (@teisenmann) teaches a course on Launching Technology Ventures and Product Management.  As part of the reading material for these courses Dr. Eisenmann, curates the best of business and entrepreneurship blogs.  His class reading lists offer a curated a primer for any entrepreneur, not just MBAs.   

  A couple of favorites:

  • Avinash Kaushik, analytics evangelist for Google, is the author of the Occam’s Razor blog and Web Analytics 2.0, a MUST READ book that provides comprehensive and practical guide to analytics.
  • Brian Balfour on how to build customer acquisition skills

  Dr. Eisenmann also offers an annual compilations of the best blogs for each year.   The list of blogs that Dr. Eisenmann follows (on the right) is a useful starter set for an entrepreneur.

   
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  snasta 8:45 pm on October 21, 2014 Permalink  

  Blog: Matt Mullenwegg – Unlucky in Cards 

  Matt Mullenweg is the founding developer of WordPress (my favorite publishing platform).   His blog has a good set of links to  thought leaders, fun quotes, and tech reviews.

  http://ma.tt

   
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  snasta 8:34 pm on October 7, 2014 Permalink  

  Book Summaries: Dave Martin of Automattic 

  Dave Martin is the Creative Director at Automattic.  His blog focuses on Design Thoughts but what attracted me to his blog were summaries of some of the books that interest me.  Two in particular:

  • 36 Thins you might take away from Creativity, Inc.:   Creativity, Inc., written by Ed Catmull, President of Pixar and Disney Animation, was one of my favorite books that I read last year (and is in the pile for a re-read).
  • 84 Highlights from the Startup Playbook:   The Startup Playbook is on my list of books to read.   A lot of the codes that Dave picked definitely resonated from the past successes and especially failures.