After mistaking me for an expert, people often ask me what I read. Sure, as you can tell from numerous past posts, I read all the sites you must read to keep up with the industry, including paidContent, Techcrunch and Techmeme (the founder of which, who I recently met, is both a fan of Venture Voice and an adept impersonator of my voice). I also read blogs from past Venture Voice guests, such as Fabrice’s, Dick’s and Jason’s, which always offer interesting thoughts.

But if entrepreneurship is dependent on seeing the world in a different way from others, then we can’t let the media we consume be defined by our industry or job title. I go out of my way to find writing that’s bold, provocative, and unafraid of breaking social mores. Here are the sources that I won’t start my mornings without:

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Not many entrepreneurs have a motor like Kevin Ryan’s. Kevin is best known for his work as CEO at the on-line advertising firm DoubleClick, which he grew from a 20 person start-up to the largest Internet company in New York at the height of the dot-com boom. After escaping the ensuing bust in an arguably improved strategic position, the company has since changed hands twice. In June 2005, the company was sold to the private equity firm of Hellman and Friedman for $1.1 billion and has made headlines yet again with its recent acquisition by Google for an astonishing $3.1 billion. Yet, this success has not slowed Kevin one bit. Since departing DoubleClick, he has already launched three start-ups, with plans for a fourth this summer. Listen in, as Kevin describes his DoubleClick experiences in both boom and bust, outlines his new start-ups, and explains why now is as good a time as ever to start a company, especially in the Big Apple.

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As I mentioned in my last post, we do our best to cover how business gets done on both coasts, and everywhere else. I'm headed out to San Francisco for the first time in a few months for the Web 2.0 Expo. If you're out there too or you know of anyone we should be talking to, drop us a line.

I had the pleasure of moderating a panel of excellent entrepreneurs for MBAs at NYU’s Stern School of Business. The panel included Thrillist co-founder Adam Rich, Daily Candy‘s Eve Epstein, Sean Pfitzenmaier of stealth startup Social Sauce, Music Nation founder Daniel Klaus and Jonah Beretti who’s a founder of The Huffington Post and BuzzFeed.

I had the pleasure of moderating a panel of excellent entrepreneurs for MBAs at NYU’s Stern School of Business. The panel included Thrillist co-founder Adam Rich, Daily Candy‘s Eve Epstein, Sean Pfitzenmaier of stealth startup Social Sauce, Music Nation founder Daniel Klaus and Jonah Beretti who’s a founder of The Huffington Post and BuzzFeed.