Be Your Startup’s Chief Information Officer
Knowledge is king, especially when you’re a startup and have competitors constantly beating down your door. Everyday, there are hundreds of new startups created, and if you’re not keeping a pulse on the scene, you would never know that someone has already created your same product, and already has such a head start that you’ll never be able to catch up.
Keeping tabs on the blogosphere is easiest done by simply consuming as much information as possible, and the best way to do that is by reading, reading, sifting (RSS). Your RSS reader should be packed to the gills with industry blogs, competitors blogs, startup blogs, and just about everyone out there that has something valuable to say.
How To Start Your RSS Library
The easiest way to start your RSS collection is to take advantage of the hard work other people have done. So here is my Google OPML subscription feed. I have 142 subscriptions in my feed, and read about 700 new posts per day. This may seem a bit daunting when you first start, but once you get in the groove, you’ll find you can just skim your way through them until you find something of interest. Once you do, open it in a new tab, and power through your list. You always want to get to the bottom of the new items before you leave your reader.
This should give you a good feeling of accomplishment and not have you constantly coming back to read your feeds every 15 minutes.
Right click and select download.
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Please share your RSS subscriptions or blogs we should be reading in the comments.
