Mega Post – Blogosphere, Founder’s Stock, Option Pools, and Don’t Raise VC

Instead of posting each of these individually, I’m going to just go ahead and combine them into one super informative awesome post (at least I think it’s awesome).

First up, Technorati has released data on a survey they did about the state of the blogosphere.  Extremely interesting information on the who, what, where, why of blogging (as well as some cool stuff on revenue, etc).  Worth reading – you can find it here.

I also came across a couple of very good informative pieces on information that founder’s should know when going to raise capital.  One is about Founder’s Stock and the other is about Option Pools.

Finally, for those fortunate enough to attend the Web 2.0 conference here at Babson, this post came from one of the attendees.  Essentially, many of us here at Babson have great ideas but not necessarily VC fundable ideas.  It’s easy to get discouraged but the truth is that most ideas do not need VC money and therefore the best thing to do is just to start your business.  You can read the full post here, I highly recommend it.

As always, thanks for those that actually write these posts.  It’s great to learn from others’ experience and to have access to knowledge that before blogs was mainly unavailable.