My buddy Will recently asked me what feeds I subscribe too, so I thought I would post what I pulled together for him here in case anyone else is looking for the good stuff. I subscribe to tons more feeds, but these are the ones I find myself consistently reading. I’ve found myself helping people set up NetVibes accounts recently, and this is generally what I put together, with each header being a separate tab within the same account. I’ve linked to the sites when possible and included the feed addresses below them. If you want to subscribe to one, copy the feed address and paste it into your aggregator (”Add content” >> “Add feed” in NetVibes). I’ve included feeds from my sites because I read that stuff too.

Tech/VC News
Venture Beat
http://venturebeat.com/?feed=rss2
Barron’s Tech Trader Daily
http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/feed/
TechCrunch
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Techcrunch
ValleyWag
http://www.valleywag.com/index.xml
The Alarm Clock
http://www.thealarmclock.com/mt/atom.xml
Digg.com: Technology
http://www.digg.com/rss/containertechnology.xml
Analyst’s Edge: Venture Capital News
http://feeds.feedburner.com/AnalystsEdge-VentureCapitalFirmNews

Entrepreneurs
Marc Andressen: Ning
http://blog.pmarca.com/atom.xml
Roger Ehrenberg: Monitor110
http://www.informationarbitrage.com/atom.xml
Keith Schacht: JobCoin/Freshwaterventure
http://www.chicagobeta.com/feed/
Noah Kagan: Mint.com
http://feeds.feedburner.com/okdork/tZRC
Steve Newcomb: Powerset
http://feeds.feedburner.com/SteveNewcombBlog

VC Blogs
Jeremy Liew: Lightspeed Venture Partners
http://feeds.feedburner.com/lightspeedblog
Ask the VC (Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson: Mobius Venture Capital/Foundry Group)
http://feeds.feedburner.com/askthevc
Venture Hacks
http://feeds.venturehacks.com/venturehacks

Econ
The Big Picture: Barry Rithholtz
http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/index.rdf
Freakonomics Blog: Levitt & Dubner
http://www.freakonomics.com/blog/feed/

Private Equity/M&A
NYTimes: Dealbook
http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/?feed=rss2
Seeking Alpha: M&A
http://usmarket.seekingalpha.com/by/type/mergers-acquisitions/feed
Analyst’s Edge: Private Equity News
http://feeds.feedburner.com/AnalystsEdge-PrivateEquityFirmNews

Hedge Funds/Public Equities
Infectious Greed: Paul Kedrosky
http://paul.kedrosky.com/index.rdf
Wall Street Folly
http://wallstfolly.typepad.com/wallstfolly/atom.xml
Controlled Greed: John Bethel
http://www.controlledgreed.com/atom.xml
Analyst’s Edge: Hedge Fund News
http://feeds.feedburner.com/AnalystsEdge-HedgeFundNews

Traditional News

WSJ
http://feeds.wsjonline.com/wsj/xml/rss/3_7011.xml
Economist
http://www.economist.com/rss/printedition/economist_printedition.xml
NYTimes
http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml

Legal

WSJ: Law Blog
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/feed/
Above The Law
http://www.abovethelaw.com/index.xml

Sports

Townie News
http://feeds.feedburner.com/fitzy
Boston.com Red Sox (no direct link because of their stupid registration crap)
http://syndication.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/red_sox_rss/?mode=rss_10
Boston.com Patriots (no direct link because of their stupid registration crap)
http://syndication.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/patriots_rss?mode=rss_10
ESPN
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/rss/news

Enjoy! Also, let me know if you think I missed anything…


  1. Steve Newcomb

    Hey Rob, Steve Newcomb over at Powerset. Thanks for the link love.

  2. Andy

    I see that you are interested in powerset. You should take a look at http://www.linguisticagents.com. It’s a start-up company that has developed a natural language understanding technology that will be used in many applications in addition to search. This technology uses a deep parsing algorithm that is based on nano-syntax technology.

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