DISQUS

hypermark · 5 months ago

What's interesting here is hat when Seesmic embarked on this path, I scratched my head as plenty of others (vSocial, Grouper, etc.) had tried video comments without success. The dogs just didn't eat the dog food.

So at the time I wondered: A) Perhaps they have a different take on how to solve the problem (more functionality, different segment focus, better user experience, distribution deals); and B) Have the VCs looked at the space before writing the check?

Ultimately, I think the answer is no on both accounts (often, VCs trust that a smart entrepreneur will navigate to the land of goodness if path A isn't the promised land).

Credit to Loic for reading the tea leaves, being a pragmatist and course correcting. I like their current path a whole lot better. Plenty of dogs and lots of dog food.

Mark

Anthony Ha · 5 months ago

I suspect your comment about the VCs is dead on.

Dylan Barber · 5 months ago

Surprising I didnt even know they started with video (name makes a lot more sense now) just thought they had a nice twitter client

LOL

Anthony Ha · 5 months ago

Nice!

centernetworks · 5 months ago

thanks for the link Anthony!

daryn · 5 months ago

Seesmic video was fairly well-done, and probably could be a sustainable lifestyle business, they just raised too much money with far too much ambition for something that many had tried before, without any substantial difference in approach.

KP · 5 months ago

Don't forget that Arrington of Techcrunch is also a investor ... seems like they're gearing more towards building tools related to twitter ... competing with the likes to Tweekdeck.

Alexander Castro · 5 months ago

Best of luck with the new direction. The desktop tool is very useful. Great entrepreneurs always find a way to evolve (e.g. PayPal).