Social Media Entrepreneurship Resources

• The McNair Center researchers' admin pages on the social media project

Twitter

Events/Trending

• #GEW2015 - Global Entrepreneurship Week. Starts Mon 16th Nov, 2015

Findings

• Lots of the twittersphere is about going to invitation only events.
  • The groups look closed (elite group)

Investors

• Reid Hoffman @reidhoffman
• Joshua Schachter @joshu
• Ron Conway @RonConway
• Chris Sacca @sacca
• Kevin Rose @kevinrose
• Vinod Khosla @vkhosla
• Keith Rabois @rabois
• Matt Mullenweg @photomatt
• Dave Morin @davemorin
• Marissa Mayer @marissamayer
• Benjamin Ling @bling0
• Max Levchin @mlevchin
• David Lee @davidlee
• Paul Graham @paulg
• Jeff Clavier @jeff
• Paul Buchheit @paultoo
• Trey Bowles @treybowles
• Gabriella Draney @gabdraney
• Chris Dixon @cdixon
• Fred Wilson @fredwilson
• David Cohen @davidcohen
• Mark Suster @msuster
• Brad Feld @bfeld
• Dave McClure @davemcclure
• Tony Robbins @TonyRobbins
• Richard Branson @richardbranson
• Tim Ferriss @tferriss
• Gabriella Draney @gabdraney
• Trey Bowles @treybowles

Venture Capital Firms

The following seemed to have large numbers of followers!

• a16z @a16z

196k F; 26 f <4K tweets since 2009 Silicon Valley 90%+retweets (articles, people’s compliments, tweets by companies they invested in, etc.) a16z podcast episode tweets https://soundcloud.com/a16z 156 companies invested

• Bessemer Venture @BessemerVP

47K F; 695 f 4.5K tweets since 2009 original tweets congratulating companies they invested in retweets from investments entrepreneurship events ex: #LATechSummit, Hackathons, #SalesStack15 conference 115 companies IPO

• Redpoint @redpointvc

30K F; 628 f <3K tweets since 2010 434 co. invested 136 IPOs retweets from investors podcast episodes https://soundcloud.com/vb_wtt company blog posts RT about investment co.

• Felicis Ventures @felicisventures
• New Enterprise Associates (NEA) @NEAVC

45K F; 622 f <4K tweets since 2010 tweets: congratulate investment co., content from investment co., articles about their investments, event tweets (ex: #websummit2015) RT investment co. $18 B assets, 650 investments

• Accel Partners @Accel

142K F; 629 f 5K tweets since 2009 Palo Alto, CA 449 companies, 25 IPOs, 128 acquisitions tweet articles about investments, articles from company website “insights” https://medium.com/accel-insights RT from investment co.,

• Sequoia Capital @sequoia

317K F; 832 f <4k tweets since 2009 tweeting about investment companies/RT from investment companies congratulating investment companies on their ventures and successes links to company articles on the company page https://www.sequoiacap.com/build/ perspectives on company building Financial services Healthcare Internet Mobile sector Outsourcing Technology 6 VC locations, headquarters in Menlo Park, CA consider themselves “partners” to investment co. instead of investors or VC’s

• First Round Capital @firstround

128K F; <2K f 5K tweets since 2008 250 startups currently links to articles on the company’s website The Review: tactics, advice, content magazine articles: management, people/culture, product, women, PR/Marketing,engineering, design, sales, fundraising common job application to its 250 startup companies VC company that focuses on helping the entrepreneurs succeed, introduce to huge partnerships more personable company “community of entrepreneurs” v. venture capital firm tweet quotes from magazine articles and links to the full article

• Kleiner Perkins @kpcb

149k followers, following 1k They have their own articles that they post. Recently they had 4 women entreps give an event #kp12to200 super popular tweet: 2015 internet trends report RT 1000x http://www.slideshare.net/kleinerperkins/internet-trends-v1 links to KPCB podcast: Ventured tweet about #internettrends tweet about same podcast or article a few times

• Greylock Partners @GreylockVC

127K F; 643 f <3.5K tweets

• Benchmark @benchmark
• Lowercase Capital @lowercase
• Khosla Impact @khoslaimpact
• Khosla Ventures @khoslaventures
• Google Ventures @GoogleVentures

They tweet about:

Retweeting things their investors are tweeting (80%) Related articles Houston

• SURGE @SURGEVentures
• Mercury Fund @mercuryfund

Very low followers

Angels

• SV Angel @svangel
• Houston Angels @Houston_Angels

University Entrepreneurship Research Centers

• Rice University, McNair Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation @BakerMcNair
• University of Chicago, Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation @polskycenter
• Babson College, The Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship @BabsonEship
• University of Pennsylvania, The Sol C. Snider Entrepreneurial Research Center @WhartonEntrep
• George Washington University, Office of Entrepreneurship @GWInnovate
• Temple University, Innovation & Entrepreneurship Institute @IEIfox
• Carnegie Mellon University, Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship @CMU_CIE

University Accelerators & Incubators

• Duke University, DUhatch @DUhatchDuke

Media and News Sources

• smallbusiness.com @smallbusiness
• WSJ What’s News @WhatsNewsWSJ
• Yahoo Small Business @YSmallBusiness
• NT Wealth @NTWealth
• Twitter Small Biz @TwitterSmallBiz
• lifehacker @lifehacker
• Forbes @forbes
• Inc. @inc
• Young Entrepreneur @YoungEnt
• Entrepreneur @entrepreneur
• BI Tech @SAI
• Silicon Republic @siliconrepublic
• Xconomy @Xconomy
• Patent Wire @PatentWire
• IP-Watch @ipwatch
• Bloomberg Business @business
• Mashable Startups @MashStartups
• Startup Digest @startupdigest
• Mashable @mashable
• TechCrunch @TechCrunch
• Poets&Quants @PoetsAndQuants
• Dell Entrepreneurs @DellInnovators

Business Schools

• The Wharton School @Wharton
• Harvard Business @HarvardHBS
• Stanford Business @StanfordBiz
• MIT Sloan @MITSloan
• Copenhagen Business School Entrepreneurship @CBS_E_SHIP

Policy Organizations

• World Economic Forum @wef
• World Intellectual Property Organization @WIPO
• USPTO @uspto
• CFA Institute @CFAInstitute
• UN Development @UNDP
• World Trade Organization @WTO
• UNCTAD @unctad
• US Small Business Administration @SBAgov
• SBA Press @SBA
• UNDP Policy Centre @undp_ipc
• Kauffman Foundation @KauffmanFDN

Crowdfunding Organizations

• Patch of Land @PatchOfLand
• CrowdfundingCampaign @CampCrwdfunding
• Crowdfunding @CrowdfundingDo
• Ultimate Crowdfunding @UltimateCrowd
• GoFundMe @gofundme
• Kickstarter @kickstarter
• Indiegogo @Indiegogo
• Crowdfunding @crowdclan
• CrowdFund Resources @CFResources