The conversation around entrepreneurship in the digital world and social media has escaped the walls of Silicon Valley and the community of entrepreneurs has gotten closer than ever. Entrepreneurs support and share their experience with each other and they get inspiration from success stories across the globe. But when interested in making a change with their businesses, who do they turn to for inspiration and guidance? We decided to take a closer look.
We partnered withPeerIndex, to come up with a list featuring the 25 most influential people tweeting about entrepreneurship. Our top 25 list is not ranked based on their overallPeerIndex score, but based on each one’s topic resonance score, which measures their actions within the entrepreneur community.
You can follow our list of the entrepreneur community’s top 25 influentials onTwitter hereor get more info on thePeerIndex groupwe’ve created to stay on top of the latest news, get inspired or get valuable advice. And, let us know your suggestions for people to follow if you are interested in entrepreneurship in the comments!
1.Steve Blank
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PeerIndex: 68
Advises start-up companies and teaches at Stanford, University of California, Berkeley and Columbia. Famous fordefining startupsas: “a temporary organization in search of a repeatable business model.” Find out more about his work and bookshere.
Follow@sgblank
2.Brad Feld
PeerIndex: 76
Managing Directorat Foundry Group, Mobius Venture Capital, Intensity Ventures, member of Board of Directors at Gold Systems, Co-Founder of TechStars (seeour recent story) and Chairman at National Center for Women and IT.
Follow@bfeld
3.Eric Ries
PeerIndex: 71
Author of the bookThe Lean Startup, sharing his experience online onStartUp Lessons Learned.
Follow@ericries
4.Bijan Sabet
PeerIndex: 69
General Partner atSpark Capital,Twitter investor and board member.
Follow@bijan
5.Umair Haque
PeerIndex: 85
Director of the Havas Media Lab, author ofThe New Capitalist Manifesto: Building a Disruptively Better Businessand founder of Bubblegeneration. You can read his posts onHarvard Business Review.
Follow@umairh
6.Mark Suster
PeerIndex: 74
Entrepreneur that sold both his companies, BuildOnline to publicly traded French company and Koral toSalesforce.comand now is a partner at venture capital firmGRP Partners. Read more about him onBoth Sides Of The Table.
Follow@msuster
7.Dave McClure
PeerIndex: 76
Founding partner at500 Startups, co-founder/organizer atStartupVisa.com, founder/creator atGeeksOnaPlane, organizer & founder atStartup2Startup, advisor, investor & boardmember atmyGengo,Twilio, Inc. andTeachStreet.com, advisor atKiva.org, startup advisor and angel investor at500 HatsLLC (Sole Proprietorship)
Follow@davemcclure
8.Rand Fishkin
PeerIndex: 70
CEO and founder atSEOmoz.org, and a publishedauthor. You can read his personal bloghere.
Follow@randfish
9.Rob Go
PeerIndex: 63
Co-founder and partner atNextView Ventures, founding Advisor at Stealth Education Company. You can read his personal bloghere.
Follow@robgo
10.Martin Varsavsky
PeerIndex: 73
Based in Madrid, Varsavsky is atech entrepreneur and investor, founder ofViatel,Ya.com,Jazztel, andFon.
Follow@martinvars
11.Ben Yoskovitz
PeerIndex: 61
Founding partner atYear One Labsand founder, publisher atNextMontreal. He shares his thoughts onInstigator Blog.
Follow@byosko
12.Tim Berry
PeerIndex: 63
President and founder ofPalo Alto Software. Founder ofbplans.com. He writes about entrepreneurship in his blogsPlanning Startups Stories andUp and Running.
Follow@Timberry
13.Roger Ehrenberg
PeerIndex: 67
Founder and managing partner ofIA Ventures. Roger currently sits on the boards ofBankSimple,Kinetic Global Markets,Metamarkets,Recorded Future, andThe Trade Desk, and is a Board observer ofSavingStar. He blogs atInformation Arbitrage.
Follow@infoarbitrage
14.Vivek Wadhwa
PeerIndex: 58
Visiting Scholar, UC-Berkeley, Emory, Dir. of Research, CERC, Duke University, Sr. Research Assoc Harvard Law School,BusinessWeek,TechCrunch columnist. Read more about Wadhwa and his workhere.
Follow@wadhwa
15.Bryce Roberts
PeerIndex: 60
Co-founder and managing director atO’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV). At OATV he focuses on consumer and enterprise software and services investments.
Follow@bryce
16.Hiten Shah
PeerIndex: 67
CEO and co-founder ofKISSmetrics. Shah is starting a free newsletter just for entrepreneurs, you can sign up for Hitenismhere.
Follow@hnshah
17.Jason Calacanis
PeerIndex: 71
Founder atLAUNCH Media, co-founder atThisWeekIn
Follow@Jason
18.David Cancel
PeerIndex: 59
CEO and founder atPerformable. Previously startedGhostery,LookeryandCompete. You can read his bloghere.
Follow@dcancel
19.Gary Vaynerchuk
PeerIndex: 90
Runs the consulting agency Vaynermedia and Internet’s leading discount wine retailerWine Library. He is the author of the bookThe Thank You Economy.
Follow@garyvee
- Mark Bao
Theyoungestone in our list, Bao is president and CEO atAvecora, co-founder atSupportbreezeand EveryoneGive, CEO at Adaptance Advertising andClassleaf, founder and director atGenevine FoundationandThe Center for Ethical Business, founder atGenevineand CTO, co-founder at TickrTalk. See our epic interview with Baohere.
Follow@markbao
21.Neil Patel
PeerIndex: 68
Co-founder ofCrazy EggandKISSmetrics. You can read his posts on entrepreneurship onQuick Sprout.
Follow@neilpatel
22.Sarah Lacy
PeerIndex: 68
Senior editor atTechCrunch.com, author of the bookBrilliant, Crazy, Cocky: How the Top 1% of Entrepreneurs Profit from Global Chaos. You can read her personal bloghere.
Follow@sarahcuda
23.David Skok
PeerIndex: 58
General Partner atMatrix Partners, board member and investor at Enservio, board member at HubSpot, Digium, Inc and SolidWorks Corp. You can read his bloghere.
Follow@BostonVC
24.Chris Dixon
PeerIndex: 74
Co-founder ofHunchandFounder Collective. Personal investor in early-stage technology companies, includingSkype,Foursquare,Kickstarter,Stack Overflowandmore. Read his blog oncdixon.org.
Follow@cdixon
25.hussein kanji
PeerIndex: 58
Early stagetechnology investor, advisor to Chairman at Eros International Plc, board director atNivioTechnologies, advisor atByhirasLLP and board member at International Alumni Council at London Business School.
Follow@hkanji
Don’t forget you can follow how the Top 25 changes over time via ourPeerIndex group, you can also take a look at our previous Top 25 lists onAugmented Reality,Cloud ComputingandApple.
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Amalia Agathou is the Community Director for The Next Web. She’s studied Information and Communication Systems Engineering and has shared he(show all)Amalia Agathou is the Community Director for The Next Web. She’s studied Information and Communication Systems Engineering and has shared her time between the startup and fashion scene. She has worked as an editor for The Next Web, House& Garden and Glamour magazine.
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