Scoreboard Media Group, Internet Audience Development

VC’s. God love ‘em with their light blue shirts and their hunt for a Blackberry Tetris high score while you are presenting your pitch. Say whatever you want about them, but it’s really hard to grow a big company without them.

The following is a ranking of the Top 25 Venture Capitalist blogs. These blogs give you an amazing insight into what these investors are actually looking for, how they operate, how they think, and how committed they are to communication. If you are contemplating raising money, I’d suggest adding each of these gentlemen (and as many of their peers as you can) to your reader in order to find who may match up best with your business. Afterall, if they are blogging, at least they can find the Internet.

Methodology

This is an assessment of each VC Blog’s audience. Data is pulled from:

- Alexa Traffic Ranking

- Technorati Authority Score

- Bloglines Subscribers

- Inbound links in Yahoo Site Explorer

- Google PageRank

A maximum of 10 points is available in each category. The top raw score in each category is given a score of 10 and the rest are indexed to it. Tiebreakers are decided by the Alexa raw score.

1. Guy Kawasaki, Garage Technology Ventures, 10.00, 10.00, 1.19, 10.00, 10.00, 41.19

2. Paul Graham, Ycombinator, 5.01, 4.55, 0.45, 3.94, 10.00, 23.94

3. David Hornik, August Capital, 0.68, 0.58, 10.00, 2.28, 10.00, 23.54

4. Paul Kedrosky, Ventures West, 2.47, 1.39, 0.76, 8.26, 8.57, 21.46

5. Fred Wilson, Union Square Ventures, 4.97, 2.42, 0.90, 4.39, 8.57, 21.26

6. Brad Feld, Foundry Group, Mobius Ventures, 1.89, 1.02, 0.90, 1.35, 8.57, 13.73

7. Josh Kopelman, First Round Capital, 1.39, 0.54, 0.33, 0.61, 8.57, 11.44

8. Ed Sim, Dawntreader Ventures, 0.34, 0.20, 0.81, 1.28, 8.57, 11.20

9. Jeremy Liew, (interviewed by me here)Lightspeed Venture Partners, 1.64, 0.49, 0.03, 0.26, 8.57, 10.99

10. USV Partners, Union Square Ventures, 1.01, 0.53, 0.21, 0.46, 8.57, 10.78

11. Marc Andreessen, Angel, 5.10, 3.54, 0.26, 1.70, 0.00, 10.60

12. Jeff Clavier, Softtech VC, 0.67, 0.25, 0.15, 0.83, 8.57, 10.47

13. Rick Segal, JLA Ventures, 0.45, 0.23, 0.15, 0.96, 8.57, 10.35

14. Christopher Allen, Alacrity Ventures, 0.24, 0.16, 0.21, 0.75, 8.57, 9.93

15. David Cowan, Bessemer Venture Partners, 0.38, 0.14, 0.13, 0.56, 8.57, 9.79

16. Peter Rip, Crosslink Capital, 0.38, 0.26, 0.05, 0.49, 8.57, 9.76

17. Seth Lavine, Foundry Group, Mobius Capital, 0.27, 0.08, 0.10, 0.33, 8.57, 9.36

18. Steve Jurvetson, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, 0.09, 0.07, 0.19, 0.42, 8.57, 9.34

19. Will Price, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, 0.15, 0.10, 0.05, 0.26, 8.57, 9.13

20. Howard Morgan, First Round Capital, Arca Group, 1.39, 0.03, 0.05, 0.04, 7.14, 8.66

21. Bill Burnham, Inductive Capital, 0.48, 0.00, 0.33, 0.67, 7.14, 8.62

22. Tim Oren, Pacifica Fund, 0.08, 0.04, 0.37, 0.86, 7.14, 8.50

23. Babak Nivi, Atlas Venture, 0.35, 0.12, 0.21, 0.38, 7.14, 8.20

24. Steve Hall, Vulcan Capital, 0.07, 0.02, 0.08, 0.31, 7.14, 7.63

25. Matt McCall, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Portage Ventures, 0.15, 0.08, 0.05, 0.09, 7.14, 7.51

25. Jeff Bussgang, IDG Ventures, 0.14, 0.00, 0.06, 0.17, 7.14, 7.51

Notes

If Google would have updated their Toolbar PageRank in the last 6 months, it is likely that Marc Andreessen’s blog would be a PR5 or PR6 site, thus vaulting him into 5th place.

If Jeremy Liew had not switched feed addresses, he would not have lost over 100+ Bloglines subscribers and he would have moved up a few spots.

Gentlemen, for the love of God (or the deity of your choice), please move all these TypePad, Wordpress, and Blogger blogs to your own domains. You have a ton of great links. Use them to prop up the search traffic to the content on your firm’s sites.

Guy owns y’all!