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Venture capital blogs : Lawyer networking opportunities

Venture capital blogs can be a prime networking opportunity for lawyers doing transactional work for start-ups and VC’s which fund them. And it can be done without even starting a blog of your own.

Look at the Startup Review Blog which just added as a contributing author Jay Parkhill, a Bay Area attorney representing high-growth companies.

Startup Review, published by Nisan Gabbay previously an Analyst at Sierra Ventures and now co-founder of a consumer Internet company, is a blog that profiles successful Internet start-ups in a case study format. Nisan’s post announcing Jay’s upcoming contributions is a nice introduction of Jay to the target audience Jay’s trying to reach.

In addition to being an author on a VC blog, commenting on VC blog post is another excellent way, short of starting your own blog, to network with start-ups.

  • http://www.chinalawblog.com China Law Blog

    GREAT link, Kevin. I love it. Since so many of the internet startups in China are pure clones of sites here, this site is like a roadmap for China too.

  • http://www.jparkhill.com Jay Parkhill

    Kevin,
    Thanks for the writeup. Here are a couple of thoughts about legal blogging/marketing:
    1) Startup Review is most valuable to me because developing the studies creates yet another networking opportunity- every person I’ve interviewed has said “oh I could have used someone like that” when I tell them about my paying gig.
    2) I have my “own” blog as well, at blog.jparkhill.com. It gets steady, but low volume traffic. No one yet has found my blog, then contacted me for work.
    *However*, several clients have told me that they got my name from someone, read what I have written and then contacted me. Blogging hasn’t made me famous (yet) but it has helped prospective clients perform due diligence before hiring me.
    Therefore, my own blog deliberately avoids targetting a narrow niche (“find a niche and own it” being the mantra for “successful” blogging) and instead reflects the breadth of my practice. It may never get inside the top million on Technorati, but the people I most need to talk to can get a good sense of my skillset.

  • stephanie carter

    what are the advantages of working for a small law firm as opposed to a large law firm ?