http://www.paternot.com Personal and official informational site for this internet entrepreneur. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:16:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I recently did a Q&A with Thompson Reuters about my Actarus Funds. The piece covers a brief history of theglobe and how it relates to social networking nowadays, as well as financial comparisons etc. It also gave me a chance to plug several portfolio companies including Sonico, Pingg, Badongo, DineroMail, ... http://www.paternot.com/2008/06/30/qa-about-the-actarus-funds/ Sonico is continuing their wave of publicity and rapid growth as a leading social network in Latin America. Here's a great posting by my friend Fabrice Grinda on also investing  in Sonico. And another older piece of coverage on TechCrunch. And for you Spanish speakers out there, here is some more international ... http://www.paternot.com/2008/06/26/recent-press-on-sonico/ I'm pleased to announce one of the latest investments by Actarus Fund III into a social networking company called Sonico. Sonico is the "Facebook of Latin America" and continues to grow at a blistering pace. Below is a recent TechCrunch article announcing the deal. http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/03/latin-american-social-network-sonico-raises-43-million/ by Mark Hendrickson Back in February Duncan described ... http://www.paternot.com/2008/06/04/techcrunch-latin-american-social-network-sonico-raises-43-million/ I don't know if you caught the "60 Minutes" segment about Remote Area Medical on Sunday, but it was one of the most moving and inspiring pieces I've seen in a long time. Despite their phone ringing off the hook all day I managed to get through and speak with ... http://www.paternot.com/2008/03/04/remote-area-medical-featured-on-60-minutes/ Youtube never ceases to amaze me... For those who grew up in Europe during the 80's watching French translated Japanese animations--yeah, that HUGE group of you ;-) Goldorak Albator Ulysse31 Capitaine Flame Heidi Candy Maya L'Abeille Cite D'Or Les Schtroumpf http://www.paternot.com/2008/03/03/trip-down-memory-lane/ Great review of Pingg in TechCrunch today! http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/25/pingg%e2%80%94invitations-done-right/ Whenever a niche gets really crowded with startups, you know that something is broken. Online invitations, which has been dominated by Evite for the past decade, is one of those areas where there is literally a dozen services trying to make it better-MyPunchBowl, Amiando, ... http://www.paternot.com/2008/02/25/techcrunch-pingg%e2%80%94invitations-done-right/ Ah, the good ol' days ;-) From the March 2008 Issue of Vanity Fair... http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2008/03/postscript200803 In January 2000, contributing editor Nina Munk reported on the late-90s Internet gold rush—a surreal time when speculators competed for stakes in Web start-ups, and entrepreneurs with little more than the talent for self-promotion became insta-tycoons by taking ... http://www.paternot.com/2008/02/06/vanity-fair-it%e2%80%99s-the-ipo-stupid/ Brilliant video of Bubble 2.0 http://www.paternot.com/2007/12/04/here-comes-another-bubble/ Recently a great 6 page story ran in The New Yorker talking about the history of online communities, and how they've evolved into the social networking (ie "me media") we now use today. Below is a brief excerpt related to theglobe.com, for the full story click on the link below. http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/05/15/060515fa_fact_cassidy?currentPage=6 By ... http://www.paternot.com/2006/05/15/the-new-yorker-me-media-how-hanging-out-on-the-internet-became-big-business/ PHILLIPS: Google has gone public on the Nasdaq. The search engine that gave a whole new lexicon as in "Google it," got out the blocks at $100 a share, $15 higher than its initial offering price. It is set to make its young founders instant billionaires. But before Google, there ... http://www.paternot.com/2004/08/19/cnn-comments-on-the-google-ipo/