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Friends and Influencers

  • Tyler Gillies: Active Read Write Web hacker, brother in arms and former Victus Media technical wizard
  • BothSidesOfTheTable: Mark Suster details his experiences as both an entrepreneur and a VC. He covers essential advice for fresh startups, and more mature businesses.
  • AVC Fred Wilson’s an idea engine and he takes on the role of Venture genius with an open mind
  • Kevin Kelly is my intellectual imagination guru. His thoughts and passion relate to a long fascination with the co-evolution of technology and humanity.
  • Kevin Marshall is a hacking machine and a big part of the Wow.ly team. I’m a big fan of speed at programming.
  • Howard Lindzon is fast becoming my goto source for stock market trends. He’s also fired up my curiosity about mining the $tocktwit$ stream
  • LM Framework: Dave Semeria is not only a sharp guy with a great sense of humor. He also is inventing the future web, in a modular fashion
  • Seth’s Blog: if you find Seth’s blog from mine, I’ll buy you a sandwich. He’s a prolific marketing blogger.
  • A Smart Bear: Jason Cohen’s blog that is ultra targeted on tips to help startups and entrepreneurs.
  • Steve Blank shares his lessons learned like a true veteran going over the details of why things worked or failed in his startups and those he advised
  • Cdixon.org – chris dixon’s blog is chock full of awesome advice for entrepreneurs, and investors
  • Paul Graham’s Essays are required reading if you want to give your startup a FAT multiplier on it’s probability of success. He’s sharp like a monomolecular edge
  • Arnold Waldstein is passionate about the social web and its ability to transform our world, travel, art, his family and wine as a way to experience cultures and meet and enjoy people.
  • Scobleizer, Robert Scoble’s startup, ideas, social tech blog.
  • Louis Gray, social media master, tech follower, information curator
  • Skeptic Geek, Mahendra eloquently captures the essence of modern information stream curation
  • iN8sworld.net, Nate’s describes it best: This site is a personal online journal with no agenda other than to provide an easy way to continue writing and sharing ideas with friends
  • Vlad cofounded and writes at RocketHub empowering creatives to build communities
  • Play Me Now, a society of fun games, images and ideas
  • Howling Out Loud, a book review focused blog by my friend Terence
  • Shana Carp’s Essays, always full of fantastic ideas
  • David Pinsen author of Steamcatapult, and thehackensack noted I already have an imagination guru, so he’s offered to be my cynicism guru. Some would call Dave pessimistic, but I prefer the description pragmatic.
  • http://tylergillies.mp Tyler

    Tyler Gillies – Boy Genius (just kidding ;)

  • http://www.victusspiritus.com/ Mark Essel

    Thanks for the reminder, you've been added of course!
    I only receive and carefully read through a dozen or so emails of yours at a time, a handful of project updates, and a dedicated 5-10hours of shared desktop working a week. I'd say you're definitely a friend and influencer :D

  • http://tylergillies.mp Tyler

    I'm flattered

  • http://www.victusspiritus.com/ Mark Essel

    But you see when other folks see how terrible I am at hacking, I can now blame you. muhahahah *cough*

    Besides you rescued me from the initial treachery of php.

    By the way, Neil Diamond is staring me down in my sidebar, he's creeping me out ;)

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