- Tyler Gillies: Brother in arms, Victus Media technical wizard, and tutor of web programming
- 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.
- 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
- Paul Buchheit helped found one of my favorite social media companies. Then sold it because it was time to. He’s got a mind like a cyborg, but I love his perspective.
- 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
- Beyond the Cave, Vlad’s attempt to make sense of the shadows, and the startup he cofounded RocketHub
- Byron New Media is run by Deano and his misson: Create and enable premium New Media Properties that enable and empower fans, followers, and fanatics to live better.
- Play Me Now, a society of fun games, images and ideas
- Howling Out Loud, a book review oriented blog
- 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.
- Jason Cronkhite‘s natural strength is being able to find connections between seemingly disparate phenomena, putting things or ideas together and then exciting people with his vision for the future.
