A VC records the thoughts of Fred Wilson, the NYC-based managing partner of two venture capital firms, Flatiron Partners and Union Square Ventures. Technorati counts 1,286 sites linking to Fred's influential insights on marketing, technology, the Internet, and investment strategy (with a bit on his kids and his favorite music mixed in!).

Above the Law is the biggest and best site for original legal news, counting among its readers everyone from general counsels and senior partners at the nation’s biggest firms to the ranks of 1Ls. Written by lawyers for lawyers, Above the Law’s staff blankets institutions like the Supreme Count, law school, and life at big firms. It’s the first with salary and bonus information and is a hub of professional advice for legal professionals at all career stages.

Alarm:Clock, a weblog written by former RedHerring editors, covers the business of technology startups.

Besides covering the news, each weekday it adds a new profile of a privately-held technology venture, analyzing the business model and assessing how the company fits in to the technology landscape.

ArchDaily was founded in March 2008 with the one mission of delivering the most complete information to architects around the world; every week, every day, every hour, every moment: as soon as it is happening. It is the online source of continuous information for a growing community of thousands of architects searching for the latest architectural news: projects, products, events, interviews and competitions among others. Our editorial staff works in a daily basis with the most prestigious and influential architectural practices around the world in order deliver specific and valuable content to a premium readership of architects, designers, consumers and influencers. In one year ArchDaily has quickly established itself as one of the leading architectural websites in the world due to our editorial staff’s meticulous understanding of what the audience is really looking for: the best architecture around the world, as soon as possible.

BizSugar is a social bookmarking and networking site for small business and medium-sized business owners and managers. It allows you to submit, share and vote for the best business information links on the Internet. BizSugar makes it easier to learn about new business strategies, tactics, and news. You can discover websites that provide answers to many of your business challenges, meet other business owners and managers that share your interests, and help others by sharing your knowledge.

B2C's goal is to create an open community where professionals and businesses can connect with one another and the consumers of their products and services. Business 2 Community aims to provide a balanced view of the current business landscape based on industry news and trends, as well as real-life experiences.

Business Pundit offers a snarky yet insightful look into the world of business and finance. The site is a popular multi-author weblog that receives regular mention in the mainstream press on sites like Fox News Business, The Wall Street Journal and Huffington Post.

The official site of media expert Chris Brogan, Chris’ blog is in the Top 5 of the Advertising Age Power150. He has over 11 years experience in online community, social media, and related technologies. Chris consults and speaks professionally with Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies like PepsiCo, General Motors, Microsoft, and more, on the future of business communications and social software technologies. He is a New York Times bestselling co-author of Trust Agents, and a featured monthly columnist at Entrepreneur Magazine.

Dane Carlson's Business Opportunities Weblog is the premier blog of ideas and opportunities for small business entrepreneurs and is one of the most widely read business blogs. In over ten thousand posts since 2001, author Dane Carlson has proven the notion that "ideas are cheap," and pushed hundreds of inventors, entrepreneurs and small scale capitalists towards their dream of owning and running their own business.

Dealbreaker calls Wall Street as it really is. Focused on the personalities making—and breaking—the financial markets, it’s a rare must-read among the din of financial news and a several times daily habit for everyone from rank-and-file traders to masters of the universe.

Duct Tape Marketing is a team of 22 authors -- each an expert in a specific aspect of business marketing, such as PR, internet marketing and selling to large organizations -- headed by author and business coach John Jantsch. The Duct Tape Marketing Blog was chosen as a Forbes Magazine "favorite for small business" and "best blog on small business marketing" for the third year in a row by the readers of Marketing Sherpa.

Dumb Little Man is Chicago-based Jay White's 3rd child.

In only 18 months his blog has become one of the most popular on the Internet simply by helping the average person improve life.

Jay and his team of writers discuss and recommend tactics that are easily read and implemented by just about anyone that wants to make their life a little easier.

Personal finance, productivity at home or work, and strategies to improve overall personal satisfaction with life are areas that are touched upon daily.

Freakonomics explores the hidden side of everything. For instance: which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Steven D. Levitt is an economist; Stephen J. Dubner is a journalist. The books they've written together, Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics, have sold more than 5 million copies in nearly 40 languages. There’s also a Freakonomics movie, a podcast and public-radio show, and the popular and award-winning Freakonomics blog, whose engaged audience includes academics, professionals, and generally curious people the world over.

HouseLogic is filled with wonderful content covering home improvement, maintenance, taxes, finance, insurance, and even ways you can get involved in and enrich your community, HouseLogic can help you increase and protect the value of your home by helping you make confident decisions.

Guy Kawasaki's blog, How to Change the World, provides tactical, practical information that attracts the early adopter, entrepreneurial, tech-loving audience. His blog consistently ranks in the Technorati top fifty.

JiWire is the leading mobile audience media company, leveraging Wi-Fi to deliver ads to elusive and affluent audiences. JiWire reaches readers in the context of their daily lives, driving deeper engagement than traditional media.

Since its launch in 1999, Knowledge@Wharton, the Wharton School’s award-winning online journal of business research and analysis, has evolved from a single website into a network of sites that provide cutting-edge knowledge and timely business analysis to more than 1.6 million registered users. Recognized among its peers and outside experts as the premier online business school publication, Knowledge@Wharton uses innovative technology, including podcasts, videos and mobile channels, to engage its audience.

As of 2006, the Knowledge@Wharton Network included three regional editions: Universia Knowledge@Wharton, launched in January 2003, is published in Spanish, Portuguese and English. China Knowledge@Wharton, launched in March 2005, offers articles in simplified and traditional Chinese as well as English. India Knowledge@Wharton was launched in November 2006.

In its most recent efforts to expand its number of regional editions and in order to further provide cutting-edge knowledge to a wider audience, Knowledge@Wharton launched Arabic Knowledge@Wharton in March 2010 in partnership with the Abu Dhabi-based Centre of Excellence for Applied Research & Training (CERT).

Krebs on Security features in-depth news and investigative stories on computer and Internet security, with a special focus on organized crime and the ways in which criminals are using Web 2.0 technologies for profit.

First printed in 1913, the New Statesman remains at the cutting edge of journalism. The greatest thinkers of the 20th and now 21st centuries have written for us. Literary greats such as H G Wells, George Orwell, J B Priestley and George Bernhard Shaw were weekly contributors. Today, global leaders in world politics, titans of business, economics and the arts contribute to make the New Statesman the essential read for bright thinkers everywhere.

A strong female voice in the business world, Penelope is the founder of three startups—most recently, Brazen Careerist, a career management tool for next-generation professionals. Her career advice appears in more than 200 newspapers. Inc. Magazine wrote that Penelope Trunk is "arguably the world's most influential guidance counselor." She has 111,000 Twitter followers, and is listed in Twitter's "Who To Follow" in Business List.

PSFK is a lens of changes in cultural behavior that influence all of us. We offer a set of trends sites contributed to by over 50 people across the globe reporting on trends in music, fashion, technology, advertising and youth. Our site readers tend to be slightly older (and wiser) media, design & advertising professionals.

Robin Good's MasterNewMedia is the premiere net destination for professional online publishers, as well as for marketing, education and media professionals wanting to communicate more effectively with new media technologies.

MasterNewMedia key traits include a strong "How-To" editorial focus, non-technical language, in-depth articles and and guides.

The site is published in four languages (English, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese) and is online since 2001.

SlideShare is a business media site for sharing presentations, documents and PDFs. It features a vibrant, interactive professional community. Individuals & organizations upload documents to SlideShare to share ideas, connect with others, and generate leads for their businesses.

Small Business Notes provides timely, quality information, resources, research, and news about starting, financing, planning, and operating a small business to help them successfully develop and grow a profitable enterprise. The focus of the site is primarily informational in nature. Instead of chatty overviews of topics, we provide in-depth resources related to business problems and issues. The goal is to provide the entrepreneurs and small business owners with comprehensive information that will allow them to learn what they need to manage each aspect of their business.

Small Business Trends wins awards for its coverage of the major and minor changes that affect small businesses, including shifts in technology, marketing, the retail environment and the global economy. Author Anita Campbell has been called THE voice of small business. Forbes picked Small Business Trends as Best of the Web in 2005.

"...the ideal small business resource: experienced, informed up to the moment, blessed with keen judgment and a broad perspective..."

- Eric Olsen, CEO, Blogcritics

"Your 'Letters to the Editor' feature is like Dear Abby for the small business market."

- Kirsten Osolind, CEO, re:invention

Among the leading business blogs, Springwise scans the globe for promising business ventures, ideas and concepts that are ready for regional or international adaptation, expansion or investment.

Thanks to its network of 8,000 spotters, Springwise has access to the brightest new business and marketing ideas as they pop up around the globe, and connects those innovative concepts to the consumer trends that drive them.

Readers include venture capitalists, CEOs, CMOs, (serial) entrepreneurs and aspiring business owners. Besides highlighting new business ideas daily, Springwise -- which launched in 2002 -- also publishes a weekly newsletter for over 100,000 subscribers.

Street Fight covers the business of hyperlocal news, information, and advertising.The site offers daily news across the emerging industry, up-close interviews with industry leaders and local business owners, commentary from experts on current events, and strategy on hyperlocal investing.

A frequent commentator on economic data and financial markets, Barry L. Ritholtz is a regular guest on CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox, CNN, ABC, CBS, PBS, MSNBC, and C/SPAN. He has appeared on many shows, including Nightline, ABC World News Tonight, Fast Money, Kudlow & Co, and Power Lunch, and has guest-hosted Squawk Box on numerous occasions. He appears regularly on Bloomberg Radio, NPR, CBS, and other radio broadcasts.

The Simple Dollar is a blog for those of us who need both cents and sense: people fighting debt and bad spending habits while building a financially secure future and still affording a latte or two. Our busy lives are crazy enough without having to compare five hundred mutual funds - we just want simple ways to manage our finances and save a little money.

VentureBeat provides news and information about fast-growing private companies and the venture capital that fuels them. Written by Matt Marshall, it is the successor to SiliconBeat. The Wall Street Journal in 2005 credited SiliconBeat with providing the "back-story" of Silicon Valley. VentureBeat targets the most influential leaders in Silicon Valley and in other dynamic business cities around the world. Readers include entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and other professionals.

Fastest growing financial media site on the web.

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