Follow the Big Money Starring Ron Conway

I mentioned in the last post to follow big money stories to see what the big money is up to.  It does three things:  1. it gives great investment ideas  2. it helps to determine what the next big industries and companies are 3. you can get a glimpse into their thinking by analyzing why they did what they did and how they did it. 

You can also pick up on their traits, characteristics and strategies for your own personal and business success. 

One guy a lot of tech people follow for all these reasons is Ron Conway.  He’s not exactly a household name.  He’s not on the Forbes 4oo list and he’s not mentioned in the media much.  I had never heard of him myself until a friend of mine told me about him six months ago.  My friend was already involved in a few internet businesses and I asked him for some advice.  One of the pieces of advice he gave me was to follow the moves of Ron Conway and his firm Baseline Ventures on CrunchBase.  Another piece of advice is to follow the moves of all the venture capital firms on CrunchBase.com to see where the web is headed.  Its interesting to check out the latest websites or firms that have received funding.

Ron Conway’s original claim to fame is that his firm, Angel Investors, was an early investor in Google, Ask Jeeves and PayPal.

Ron Conway is in the news recently.  He sent out an email to all his companies and you can read it here.  It was a post from the Tech Crunch blog, one of the most popular tech blogs on the internet.

Follow Ron Conway and everybody else on techcrunch.com and you’ll practically be a Silicon Valley insider.