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 havin...
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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 e...
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After 3 years of angel investing in 20+ Consumer Internet startups (and profitably selling 5 of them), I am very excited, and humbled, to announce the launch of my very own VC fund, SoftTech VC II, L....
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You might heard of the story of the CNN anchor, Kyra Phillips.who went to the loo with her microphone still on… the air, and whose chatter ended up as a voice over on a segment about Georges Bu...
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After an extended summer break (as explained by my esteemed co-chair, Dave Mc Clure, we both have been quite busy), the Search SIG returns with a very interesting program onSeptember 12th,focusing on ...
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Kevin Rose is presenting at Ryan Carson’s Future of Web Apps in San Francisco. He spent quite a bit of time covering the functionality of Digg, and briefly shared a few interesting data points:Startin...
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A year ago (give or take 10 days) I wrote about Dogster Inc. – the maker of the highly popular dogster.com and catster.com – turning profitable, an unusual fate among Web 2.0 companies. It was still a...
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Update: we are trying for the first time to video stream the session at this address (QuickTime 7).Close to 300 video hosting, sharing and editing sites have been counted to date, serving hundreds of ...
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It is all over the news so you don’t need a rehash: the rumors were true and Google has acquired YouTube for $1.65B in GOOG stock. There are several remarkable facts in this acquisition, and I only ha...
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My friend and European VC blogger Fred Destin made an amusing comment in one of his blog entries: Jeff Clavier has left the building, following a discussion I had had with Rick Segal at StartupCamp in...
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Unless you have been away for a week in an Internet-deprived location, or don't bother reading blogs anymore, you are at least aware that a conference called Le Web3 took place in Paris (France) last ...
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Almost three years ago, I left the fund I was a general partner of and decided to switch my investment focus from mid-stage enterprise software to (very) early stage consumer Internet. Dotcoms as they...
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Much has been written on, about and around Twitter – with a clear acceleration over the past… three weeks ? Essentially the traffic on the site, and the number of mentions in the blogosphere seem to b...
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The busy conference season is upon us again (just cleared TED 2007 which was an absolute blast), and I want to mention two events where I will be speaking in the coming month: WEB 2.0 EXPO / APRIL 15–...
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I was writing a piece about my latest investment, Kongregate, and was reading Ryan Olson’s piece about the company when I stumbled upon that ad being displayed on the page, just below one of my quotes...
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My most recent investment, Kongregate, announced its beta launch last night alongside the closing of a $1M seed financing. I am delighted to be part of a strong syndicate of angel investors, led by my...
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You might think that I am spending all my time speaking at, or attending, conferences and there are some weeks where that feels very true. This week is one of those, with a few back to back events tha...
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Howdy! First, to all of you really anxious to follow me around (but don't feel obliged, really) twitter(here) is where my “creativity” expresses itself these days. In short bursts of 140 characters ma...
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Robert and Patrick first in front of the Apple store in Palo AltoOriginally uploaded by jeffclavierRobert has said that he was going to do it: well here he is with Patrick camping in front of the Appl...
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It took me a few minutes to start writing something after putting in this title “Turning to page 40”. I re-read the many emails, Facebook private and wall messages, skype IMs, SMSs, twitter messages a...
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