Vote for Loic Le Meur on Hot or Not!

Written on 14th November 2008                                                                                                              2 COMMENTS
Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.

According to this tweet by Loic Le Meur, he’s been avidly trying out a variety of online services to pick up some ideas, presumably to improve Seesmic. One of the services he’s tried out is the now legendary HotorNot.com and I say, lets show him our support!

hotornot, Loic Le Meur, loiclemeur, twitter

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Seesmic about to announce big news

Written on 20th June 2008                                                                                                              4 COMMENTS
Patrick de Laive, Internet entrepreneur and co-founder of The Next Web Conference. Twitter: @patrick

Today we went to the seesmic office to hand out a The Next Web Award in the category Web Celeb to Loic Le Meur. We did the official ceremony in the Seesmic office (check the movie).

Afterwards we had dinner in a sushi bar and Loic told us that they were about to announce big news at Seesmic.

People are guessing what it can be and Robert Scoble was particulary interested.

So what can it possibly be? What is ‘big news’ for a startup? Well that is either an acquisition, a huge partnership or a round of investment.

I believe it is to soon for seesmic to be acquired. A huge partnership could be, but big companies don’t like it that you leak this kind of information before the big press push is going out, so my guess is that they do a series B and raise another couple of millions after their first round in February.

The common consensus is that it is getting harder and harder to raise money nowadays. So to raise some extra money when it is still possible for ‘hard times to come’ sounds feasible.

investment, loiclemeur, seesmic

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