Top Entrepreneurs on Twitter: Who to Follow & Why
November 24, 2009
One of the best things about Twitter is getting great information from great people in real-time. As an entrepreneur it is extremely valuable to hear from and learn what other entrepreneurs are doing, what is working, what isn’t working and what tips they have for others.
The twelve people I have listed below are certainly not the only entrepreneurs out there offering valuable information but they are some of my favorites:
Ben Yoskovitz
- @byosko
- Who: “CEO/Founder Standout Jobs. Blogger. Entrepreneur. Father. Opportunity-seeker.”
- Why: Ben interacts with his followers and presents great information for start ups.
Mike McDerment
- @MikeMcDerment
- Who: “FreshBooks CEO”
- Why: Mike does a great job of answering questions about FreshBooks, interacting with his followers and keeping everyone updated on events and engagements.
Dan Martell
- @danmartell
- Who: “Canadian entrepreneur; investor, San Francisco immigrant, lover of metrics and marketing. all around nice guy.”
- Why: A nice mix of social media marketing, humor and business tips.
Elizabeth Shea
- @eliz2shea
- Who: “CEO/Founder of SpeakerBox Communications, a tech PR agency focused on driving business results in B2B and B2G”
- Why: Up on all the business events, technology news and social media.
Jason Fried
- @jasonfried
- Who: “Founder of 37signals. Architecture and tea enthusiast, too. Entrepreneurs: Simple is an asset.”
- Why: Great interaction (esp. with customers) along with some quality business info.
Marcel LeBrun
- @lebrun
- Who: “CEO, Radian6 – social media monitoring, analysis and engagement platform”
- Why: Fun to follow with a mix of person interests and business information. As a CEO great to see so many responses to followers.
Leo Laporte
- @leolaporte
- Who: “I’ve experiments to run, there is research to be done, on the people who are watching TWiT Live.”
- Why: Interesting guy covering everything from music to business to search. Also a Grasshopper customer so I am partial.
Joel Spolsky
- @spolsky
- Who: Software developer and the author of Joel on Software
- Why: Get insight into his company along with solid business advice.
Susan McKenna
- @mckennasmark
- Who: “Owner of McKenna’s Marketing, Tweet Toolbox, BuzzHumor, StinksnThings and other fun adventures!”
- Why: Funny, RT quality information and offers some nice social media tips for businesses
Steve Woda
- @SteveWoda
- Who: “Founder of buySAFE. Entrepreneur. eCommerce. Internet Safety and Security. Economics. Surety Bonds. Wharton MBA.”
- Why: Great articles and RT for businesses and startups.
Mark MacLeod
- @startupcfo
- Who: “I help fund, grow and sell tech startups. Currently CFO at Akoha and Tungle and advisor to other web startups”
- Why: Funny and smart is what you will get from Mark. Information for VC and startup folks
Fred Wilson
- @fredwilson
- Who: “I am a VC”
- Why: Personal insights, music, event info and of course business and startup tips.
I also thought I’d throw in two others you may already know as a bonus:
Zappos
- @zappos
- Who: Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh
- Why: Get a glimpse of what life is like in the Zappos office along with some motivational quotes to pick you up.
Jason Calacanis
- @jason
- Who: “I’m a cereal entrepreneur: Founder of Weblogs, Inc., TechCrunch50, Silicon Alley Reporter, Engadget & Mahalo.com”
- Why: A very smart guy doing interesting things. Find events and get startup tips.
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16 Comments
Awesome! Always looking for interesting successful people to get advice and inspiration from. Thank you!!!
Good to see these kind people issuing advice, better than banks and colleges as these have gone through it first hand not learned it from textbooks.
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Hi David,
Thanks for the shoutout and kind words. I hope things are rocking for you at Grasshopper and Chargify.
Cheers,
Marcel
CEO, Radian6
@theresource
real guidance for entrepreneurs with no fluff
Impressive list.Thank you
Thank you for including me on the list! Three Canadians at the top of the list — made me chuckle.
David,
Great list! Thank you very much for putting me on it.
Mark
I find it interesting the most of people listed follow less than 400 people. Do you think it is better to follow a lot of people or is better to follow less people so you can actually read all their tweets? Some people follow everyone that followed them, is this effective?
@shaig
Hi David-
Wow, what an honor! This is a great list. Thanks for putting it together (and including little ole me) and thanks for listening.
- Susan
Helpful list. And (for this Canadian living in the Bay Area) exciting to see so many Canadians on the shortlist. Twitter truly does not have no borders!
Thanks for all the comments. There are tons of people with lots of followers that I could have included but who cares about them? A lot of their content is not good and many built these large followings using non organic methods.
Anyone have any suggestions to add to this list?
I am so humbled, to be listed among greats, I am not worthy! Thanks Grasshopper..BTW, I love your “tude!”
- @eliz2shea
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