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I have made no mystery over the years that out of the 65 companies I have invested in over the past 5 years, Mint and its CEO Aaron Patzer, was one of the most exciting. It definitely met the “3-asses” rule: a young, brilliant, kick-ass CEO (Aaron), a big-ass, phenomenal, market (personal finance) and a smart-ass product (mint.com). I met Aaron in July 2006, thanks to the introduction of Sanford Barr (Aaron owes you a big one man ;), and I was impressed by his determination and ambitions, and promptly decided to invest in the Seed round eventually led by...
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 having investors being “celebrated” is that our job is to help and support entrepreneurs, and make sure that the attention is focused on them, not us. Like I said when the list of 13 Web 2.0 Kingmakers was published, I feel that I have been extremely lucky to work with a number of really smart entrepreneurs, some (5) who sold their companies in early yet very profitable...
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 even apologize to my 122K RSS subscribers (what ?) because I am not feeling apologetic at all. I have moved on from blogging - feeling the obligation of developing 500 word pieces that took sometimes a couple of hours to assemble - to bits of 140 characters, and rarely videos, I post every now and then and I suspect that a lot...
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