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May 16, 2006
Me at Mesh '06
While I don't think there is any video available of my fireside venture capital chat at the Mesh '06 conference today in Toronto, you can read a faithful-feeling textual facsimile via the estimable Scott Karp. He live-blogged the festivities. As an aside, kudos to Mark, Matthew, Mike, Rob, and Stuart for a job incredibly well done. Great speakers, wonderfully well organized, and a fresh-feeling format (and some really, really strange sounds now and then from the building fire alarm). Guys, you should be very proud.
[Update] I should have mentioned this in the first place, because he told me he had done it, but Tris Hussey of Qumana took some pics during my talk.
[Update^2] There are some good Mesh pics up from Matthew Ingram, including this one of the guys just hanging out, and this one of Matt demo-ing some unreleased new software for me.
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Thanks a lot, Paul -- and thanks again for coming. A lot of people said our keynote discussion was their favourite part of mesh -- although it doesn't sound like the folks at Maxthon appreciated your comment about them and their financing, and the bubble-like feeling out there. Not surprising, I suppose -- no one wants to be seen as the new bubble's "poster boy" :-)
Thanks Matthew. Despite my glib comments about going full-circle by funding two browser-ish companies in the last 12 months or so, most recently Maxthon, I have to guiltily confess I'm intrigued by the Charles River move.
What do you think Charles River has in mind with the Maxthon financing then -- assuming they haven't lost their minds :-) Do they see Maxthon as having some undiscovered potential to revolutionize the browser game? If so, then it seems to me Opera would be a better bet. Or is it just some kind of China play that I'm not getting?
Paul, you were tremendous. All the feedback on your 1:1 with Mathew has been stellar. Thanks for mesh-ing.
Paul, your Conversation with Mathew is on YouTube, thanks to Jon Arnold. But be patient, Jon obviously had to realign his Nokia N90 during the first 30 seconds or so.... too many degrees of freedom in these high tech devices .
And there is video, though it's a little carpet-heavy ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ITjwVHfYaA
Thanks, Paul.
Hi Paul,
I really loved your chat at MESH, and while I was only a lowely pleb on the side stage, found the mesh gang to be great. I'd strongly chime in with your kudos to Mark and the Mesh Gang.
Wondering what you think about this:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060517.wwisewords0517/BNStory/specialSmallBusiness/home
Sean
Hi, Paul. As a person running a pretty good web 1.5 business, your keynote was very helpful for those of us in Eastern Canada who are ready for the VC stage but need help being pointed in the right direction.
It was especially nice to hear that many VC's in Boston / Eastern USA are conducting business with Toronto companies. Looking forward to receiving your list once you've caught up.
Regards,
George Tsiolis
The Tallest Greek At Mesh
Paul, Thanks for the links! I agree with all of the above, yours was a killer talk.
Video clip here, Paul. A little heavy on the carpet, but still ....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ITjwVHfYaA
Thanks for the support - it was a great day.