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Starting a company is hard, so you're going to need a lot of advice along the way.
There are many entrepreneurs, investors and bloggers who churn out business advice daily, but it's a pain figuring out which sites are worth reading.
We've compiled a list of our favorite sources of small business and tech news for entrepreneurs.
Running the gamut from hilarious, to informational, to controversial, to thought-provoking, these blogs are all must-reads for anyone who's running a business.
Business managersblog: Quora
Blogger: Any entrepreneur you want to follow, from Fred Wilson to Marc Cuban
Why it's so great: Quora is a Q&A site where experts actually take the time to seriously answer your questions. You can follow topics like "startups" and "entrepreneurship" and people like Fred Wilson or Mark Zuckerberg. Answers get voted up by by the community so that only the best ones shine. You can find answers to questions like "What is the best way to prepare yourself for entrepreneurship?" or "What are some tips on connecting with high-profile people that can help your startup?"
Business managersblog: PandoDaily
Blogger: Sarah Lacy
Why it's so great: Sarah Lacy and her band of bloggers at Pando are making an effort to become the "site of record for Silicon Valley." Much of the staff came from TechCrunch, so they're well sourced. Lacy conducts exclusive interviews with high profile people in tech and curates the top tech/entrepreneurship stories from other startups in the site's right rail.
Business managersblog: LinkedIn Today
Blogger: LinkedIn curates articles based on your professional profile and your social connections.
Why it's so great: LinkedIn Today curates articles that are fitting for your industry and that people in that industry are sharing. As such, it's a good source of entrepreneurship and business news all in one place.
Business managersblog: Both Sides of the Table
Blogger: Mark Suster, VC at GRP Partners and former entrepreneur
Why it's so great: Suster founded two companies and worked in consulting, and has now gone over to "the Dark Side of VC," as he puts it. He's seen every business situation imaginable, from startups to large corporations, and from success to failure. Plus, he has a knack for breaking down complicated ideas and making them much easier to understand. He knows what it takes to win, and you should listen.
Business managersblog: Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist
Blogger: Penelope Trunk, Founder and CEO of Brazen Careerist
Why it's so great: As a three-time entrepreneur, Trunk has a lot of experience to share. She deftly mixes her small business advice with personal anecdotes (sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking) to make for a blog that you'll look forward to reading. And, her insights are priceless.
Business managersblog: Steve Blank
Blogger: Steve Blank, Professor of Entrepreneurship at multiple universities and author of Four Steps to the Epiphany
Why it's so great: Blank tackles the whole gamut of business topics, from innovation in big business to the role of a founding CEO. His B-school teaching instincts come through all his blog posts, where he often walks his readers step-by-step through his points, and useful graphs abound. Most posts are summed up at the bottom with a helpful "Lessons Learned" section, too.
Business managersblog: Church of the Customer
Bloggers: Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba, both authors and management consultants
Why it's so great: Attracting 120,000 daily readers, Forbes named Church of the Customer a 2010 Favorite for Best of the Web Small Business Blogs.
The blog documents successes and failures of small and large businesses, so entrepreneurs can avoid making similar mistakes.
Forbes writes about their pick: "There's always something to be learned about managing customers and building loyalty."
Business managersblog: Wise Bread
Bloggers: A collection of writers and entrepreneurs who specialize in saving money, cutting costs, and budgeting wisely
Why it's so great: As a small business owner, frugality can make or break your company. Wise Bread offers tips on how manage business finances, and gives advice to entrepreneurs who want to do big things on a small budget.
Wise Bread has a section that caters exclusively to entrepreneurship, which covers topics ranging from "launching for less" to "scoring free publicity."
Business managersblog: AllBusiness.com
Bloggers: A collection of entrepreneurs and other experts, whose areas of specialty range from marketing to strategy, to financial management
Why it's so great: AllBusiness covers how-to advice, analysis, and commentary from experts in all areas of business. Content is updated daily (including weekends) and is searchable by categories like "Internet Marketing" and "Startups."
Business managersblog: How To Change The World
Blogger: Guy Kawasaki, author of several business and marketing books and a managing director of early-stage VC firm Garage Technology Ventures
Why it's so great: WSJ deemed this blog one of the 15 Entrepreneur Blogs Worth Reading because it motivates and inspires small business owners.
Kawasaki speaks to entrepreneurs from a VC point of view, giving eager business owners advice from his own experience, along with much-needed reality checks.
Business managersblog: Entrepreneur Daily Dose
Bloggers: Regular Entrepreneur contributors
Why it's so great: This blog has the Entrepreneur brand backing its content, and it often takes current news stories and extracts marketing lessons for small business owners.
In the past week, Daily Dose has examined what businesses can learn from the Old Spice Man, George Steinbrenner's contribution to the business of baseball, and what the finance reform means for small businesses.
Business managersblog: A VC
Blogger: Fred Wilson, Managing Partner of two VC firms, Flatiron Partners and Union Square Ventures
Why it's so great: Fred is an influential thought leader in the entrepreneurial community. He has more than 2 decades of Venture Capital experience, has invested in companies like TheStreet.com, and was ranked #1 on TechCrunch's Top Ten VC Blogs of 2010.
Wilson thinks about his blog readers as a community, and he actively responds to comments and posts nearly every day (even on vacation.) With so much experience in the world of startup, his "musings" are always insightful, useful, and -- best of all -- broken down in easy-to-understand terms.
Business managersblog: Small Biz Survival
Bloggers: Blog founder Becky McCray, self-described "small town entrepreneur," along with a few of her entrepreneur friends
Why it's so great: According to BlogRank, a site that uses over 20 different factors to rank blogs including RSS members, incoming links, and Alexa, Small Biz Survival ranks #16 on the Top 100 Small Business Blogs chart.
Digging into her own successes, failures, and small-town-entrepreneur experiences, McCray offers big-time advice that can be useful for all entrepreneurs.
Business managersblog: Blog Maverick
Blogger: Mark Cuban, Chairman of HDNet and owner of the Dallas Mavericks
Why it's so great: Cuban is known for having strong opinions and not being afraid to voice them -- so, of course, his blog is the perfect platform for him to do that. His posts offer up interesting -- and often controversial -- viewpoints on the tech industry and general business strategy and management.
His writing makes for an entertaining read, and his perspectives on how to do business, whether or not you agree, will certainly provoke thought.
Business managersblog: Small Business Brief
Bloggers: Founders Robert Clough and Jennifer Laycock, the folks behind Search Engine Guide, along with select other contributors and blogs they aggregate from
Why it's so great: Listed as a Forbes Favorite for 2010 Small Business Blogs, Small Business Brief focuses on finding important info for small business owners from across the web, and aggregating them in one place.
The blog also features original stories on the information and trends the editors find. Forbes.com reports, "Small Business Brief is like reading a thick business magazine, loaded with the kind of articles you'd ordinarily earmark and highlight."
Business managersblog: Kevin Kelly's Lifestream
Blogger: Kevin Kelly, Founding Editor and currently Editor-at-Large of Wired Magazine
Why it's so great: You might have to read Kelly's short posts a few times to fully distill their meaning -- but the big ideas they bring up about leadership and innovation are worth it.
Blogger: Brian Clark, a writer, online content producer, entrepreneur, and "recovering attorney."
Why it's so great: Clark believes more people aren't successful online because they're lacking two skills: content marketing strategy and copywriting. Copyblogger serves as a comprehensive resource for any business person looking to improve their online writing and blogging skills.
With 115,000+ subscribers, Copyblogger has been given shoutouts by Ad Age's Power 150 list, Technorati's Most Popular Blogs in the World feature, BusinessWeek, and The Guardian.
Business managersblog: The Scott Adams Blog
Blogger: Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip and author of several non-Dilbert-related books
Why it's great: In his personal blog, Adams takes the same humor and musings on human behavior in business that defined Dilbert and applies them to the blog post format. Each post is funny, surprising, thought-provoking, and a pleasure to read.
Business managersblog: Small Business Trends
Blogger: Anita Campbell, Founder and CEO of Small Business Trends, along with other contributors
Why it's so great: The Small Business Trends blog is a comprehensive resource for small business news, research, and how-to's. Posts tend towards the dry side, but they pack in a lot of useful, current information that every small business owner should be aware of.
Business managersblog: Duct Tape Marketing
Blogger: John Jantsch, marketing and digital technology coach
Why it's so great: Jantsch specializes in effective small business marketing that can be done on a budget (or for free). He offers thorough advice on social media marketing, word-of-mouth marketing, and generating referrals, all with the frugal business owner in mind.
Business managersblog: The Entrepreneurial Mind
Blogger: Jeff Cornwall, Chair of Entrepreneurship at Belmont University
Why it's so great: Get business advice from someone who teaches it for a living. Cornwall also consults businesses on growth and the start-up process, and focuses articles on entrepreneurial finance and entrepreneurial ethics.
Business managersblog: Venture Hacks
Bloggers: Babak Nivi and Naval Ravikant, startup advisors, entrepreneurs, and investors
Why it's so great: With experience as both entrepreneurs and investors, "Nivi and Naval" know what they're talking about when it comes to getting funding. Their blog features clear how-to guides on the basics of starting a company and raising capital, and lots of guest posts by influential entrepreneurs and VCs. Make sure you check out extra features like their Twitter Digest, and their cool project, Angel List.
Business managersblog: Seth Godin's Blog
Blogger: Seth Godin, author of multiple books on entrepreneurship and marketing
Why it's so great: Renowned author Seth Godin (all 12 of his books have been bestsellers) jots downs his daily musings on business, social media, and the way the business world is changing at his blog. Each post is a nugget of wisdom meant to provoke thought on bigger issues about how we do things in business.
Business managersblog: James Altucher's blog
Blogger: James Altucher
Why it's so great: Altucher is savvy, well-connected and blunt. He gives advice on everything from dealing with 'crappy people' to multitasking.
Business managersblog: SAI and War Room
Why it's so great: Business Insider's technology section (SAI) and business strategy section (War Room) offer exclusive interviews with entrepreneurs, how-to guides, and tips about succeeding in business.
Top business magazines and web sitess are
The Economist
The Business Magazine
Harvard Business Magazine
linked in, yahoo finance, the economist, the business magazine.
It will greatly depend on the intentions and size of a selected company, For a small business or even a startup, you would want too keep up to date with the local markets. Trends are a great element to extract from blogs that accommodates these smaller organizations because, they often use trend scoping as a means to stay ahead of competition.
For a reasonable to large organization it would be better to not only follow well known sources but, also keep professional high reputation sites such as: Linkedin and Buffer Blog (great sites that keeps you in touch with the social media aspect of business communication). It is however just as important to keep global finance, markets and news in mind because any changes here is more likely to influence a larger company in a larger fashion. These sources are easier to track down and can easily be identified. High reputation sites may include: Forbes, CNN Money and Bloomberg
Hi there, it depends on the country that you reside in or do business in. Checking out US blogs or reading business news from US sources and at the same time - residing/doing business in Russia or China, does not mean at all that you are up-to-date with Russian/Chinese business news. There is no such a thing as "one source or one blog" for all the business news around the world. Hope this helps and good luck!
Linkedin, Noobprenuer Business Blog, Yahoo Finance, MSN Money Central, CNN Money, etc.
there are many Blogs and websites to follow, harvard Business review, is veery good for business vews
Harvard Business Review, Ted Videos
“Chris Brogan’s Blog”
He delivers quality, helpful, thoughtful and inspiring content to every business owner wise enough to tune into what he has to say.
Great resources provided by Lamya Adam down here. I'd like to add few sites I actively follow:
The Alex Jones Show - for current world economic and political analysis
The Watchdog channel on Youtube
Trendsjournal dot com
Rich Dad blog for entrepreneurship and investment.
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