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

By: Alexander Castro

Alexander Castro — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:00:33 +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).

By: KP

KP — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:46:32 +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.

By: daryn

daryn — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 02:08:46 +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.

By: Anthony Ha

Anthony Ha — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:11:06 +0000

Nice!

By: Anthony Ha

Anthony Ha — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:10:54 +0000

I suspect your comment about the VCs is dead on.

By: centernetworks

centernetworks — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:15:42 +0000

thanks for the link Anthony!

By: Dylan Barber

Dylan Barber — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:51:15 +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

By: hypermark

hypermark — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:43:44 +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?

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