VentureBeat - Latest Comments in Video site Seesmic’s CEO: We built it, they didn’t come

Re: Video site Seesmic’s CEO: We built it, they didn’t come

Alexander Castro — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:00:33 -0000

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

Re: Video site Seesmic’s CEO: We built it, they didn’t come

KP — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 04:46:32 -0000

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.

Re: Video site Seesmic’s CEO: We built it, they didn’t come

daryn — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:08:46 -0000

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.

Re: Video site Seesmic’s CEO: We built it, they didn’t come

Anthony Ha — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:11:06 -0000

Nice!

Re: Video site Seesmic’s CEO: We built it, they didn’t come

Anthony Ha — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:10:54 -0000

I suspect your comment about the VCs is dead on.

Re: Video site Seesmic’s CEO: We built it, they didn’t come

centernetworks — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:15:42 -0000

thanks for the link Anthony!

Re: Video site Seesmic’s CEO: We built it, they didn’t come

Dylan Barber — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:51:15 -0000

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

Re: Video site Seesmic’s CEO: We built it, they didn’t come

hypermark — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:43:44 -0000

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