I have made no mystery over the years that out of the 65 companies I have invested in over the past 5 years, Mint and its CEO Aaron Patzer, was one of the most exciting. It definitely met the “3-asses” rule: a young, brilliant, kick-ass CEO (Aaron),..
Topics: SoftTech VC, Venture Capital, Web 2.0

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Well, I would certainly not have claimed it, but BusinessWeek has when putting together this list of usual, and not so usual, suspects that includes yours truly. You see, what always troubles me having investors being “celebrated” is that our job is..
Topics: SoftTech VC, Thoughts, Web 2.0

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Props to Kara Swisher for prompting me to open Ecto and work on a blog post, something I have not done in a long long time (almost 5 months since this announcement of my Seesmic investment). I won't even apologize to my 122K RSS subscribers (what ?)..
Topics: Social Media, Thoughts

{"title":"Twitter: Where Nobody Knows Your Name - Yet ?","post_url":"http:\/\/blog.softtechvc.com\/2008\/04\/twitter-where-n.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/feeds.softtechvc.com\/softtechvc","author":"JeffClavier","date":"2008-04-28 12:42:04","summary":"Props to Kara Swisher for prompting me to open Ecto and work on a blog post, something I have not done in a long long time (almost 5 months since this announcement of my Seesmic investment). I won't even apologize to my 122K RSS subscribers (what ?).."}

Even though it is still in closed alpha, Seesmic has started generating a lot of buzz in Silicon Valley, in France and in the Social Media ecosystem. I remember clearly when its founder, my dear friend Loic Le Meur, told me months ago about the idea of a.
Topics: Social Media, SoftTech VC

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I have explained and written many times over about conferences I attend, speak at or help organize. They represent a unique opportunity to catch up with a vast number of contacts or companies in our industry, and meet (and get pitched by) startups by the.
Topics: Conference & Events

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