"just throw entrepreneurs in the water they will learn how to swim"

This is what Robert Papin then head of HEC Entrepreneurs business school I attended in France kept repeating. Jason Calacanis today points out how important it is to "frackin start". There are so many would be entrepreneurs who never do it just because they never try. And when you start, chances are high you do not crack the code of what you are trying to do at the beginning. It takes time and we all make mistakes. In fact, it is in the entrepreneurs daily life to make mistakes. The important part is to learn, permanently, by listening to your community or your customers. That is what we are doing and we heard most people did not want a 100% flash site so we launched a temporary new ajax simple version and are about to launch a totally redesigned one. We learnt that people wanted the video conversation where they are more than going to seesmic.com (even though there is a video posted every minute there, it works) so we launched our wordpress video comment plugin and integrated with disqus.

We also partnered with Friendfeed and Mybloglog and tons of other integrations are coming. We have an API and more than a hundred developers looked at it. We are bringing the conversation in video everywhere. Of course Seesmic as a destination site is important and we love the community too, but we're starting to have a new growth with more than 1000 blogs who installed our video comments.

When Jason says

"I hated the name, I hated the design, and I wasn't big on the concept of a "video version of Twitter." He smiled when I told him that and said I was right in some of my criticism but that there was more coming. To be honest, I wasn't so sure. It's tough when you see someone you think is very smart doing something you think isn't going to work. Today I'm glad to say I was 100% wrong about Seesmic. I still hate the name, but I love where he has taken it. Video comments on blogs are brilliant"

it makes my day of course. And now my challenge is that the community and also Jason I hope like our new site and find it brilliant too. We have not even scratched the surface of the video conversation, it will take years but it will become huge.

That is what is fascinating for entrepreneurs I think. When they work on new grounds that have not been explored. Like walking on the moon at a very small scale. This is why it is also much more interesting to create new stuff than launching copycats. It makes the days of an entrepreneur stressful but also fascinating (yes Loren, fascinating). Anyway, thanks Jason for your compliments. I think we're far from understanding the video conversation yet, but we will get there.