Web 2.0

By Jeff Clavier What struck me, or at least surprised me, what the speed at which Twitter got its mention in the New York times, was called the blogging killer, had its first mashups, and created a passionate debate between fans and opponents. Talking about mashups, Twittervision is really way cool, and c...

By Jeff Clavier 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 the midst of the three sessions I led that day. I basically told Rick that I was in need of reca...

By Jeff Clavier 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 have a few minutes in between meetings (before meeting a company involved in online video someth...

By Jeff Clavier And if you marry that with the iPhone platform, it gets even more interesting. But that's another story... in 5 months or so. Photo Credit: PinarOzger. Don't ask me why I felt that this picture of Tim O'Reilly bowing to Dave McClure was relevant to the story, but it did ;).

By Jeff Clavier 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 video community that would be able to int...

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By Jeff Clavier I remember distinctly hearing these same discussions when KP & Sequoia invested in Google, and when Accel Partners invested in Facebook. So these valuations do make sense sometimes... So thanks again to all for your kind wishes, and cheers to the new decade :-). I am off to a meeting with my...

By Jeff Clavier I have been asked if users would develop games "for real", therefore increasing the amount of content on the site. My answer is essentially that 1) based on the current set of uploads, we see a lot of amateur game developers uploading interesting demos or actual games, and 2) a user will typi...

By Jeff Clavier 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 very small business, but gave co-founders Ted Rheingold, John Vars and Steven Reading a foundat...

By Jeff Clavier While I am at it, many people have complained to me, over and again, that I had abandoned my blog. As I explained in this post a few months ago, I sort of have - in an extended sabbatical kind of way - but you can always find my rumblings of all kinds on Twitter.

By Jeff Clavier That is my second milestone: about 3 years ago (and a few months), I decided to start this firm and invest my time and our family's money into early stage startups, more precisely consumer internet startups located in Silicon Valley. Web 2.0 did not exist per se then, nor was it as obvious as to...