Or not.  Here is a somewhat cheesy but informative video on why LinkedIn raised a bucket of cash ($53MM) at a monster valuation ($1B).  I kind of like this approach as it gets the message out in a rapid, direct, and standard way.  People want to hear from the investors directly on deals like this and this is a great one way medium to tell the story. 

I wouldn't go so far to call it the longest three minutes of my life like PE Hub but next time maybe they can tone down the hype and emphasis on their investment prowess a bit and add additional focus on what makes the company, business model and space so exciting and really worthy of these digits. 

Regardless, these highly regarded VCs are now on the video record touting the investment and logic behind the valuation.  I find the latter disclosure directly by the investors really "interesting."  Hope it works out for them.

I can't wait for the parade of parody videos to follow.

I had the opportunity to participate in Intel Capital's (one of our investors) technology day in steamy hot Orlando, FL on Friday. It was part of the last day's activities for CSC's Technology and Business Solutions conference and they selected a handful of Intel's portfolio companies to give short pitches to the attendees. I met some great folks from CSC and Intel as well as portfolio companies like NewsGator, Dexterra, SpikeSource and Jajah among others.

I really enjoyed chatting with Newsgator CEO J.B. Holston about what they are doing to build on their RSS roots and broaden their social computing offerings.  I also had the chance to drop in on the evening festivities for Microsoft's big TechEd event and enjoyed the entertainment at Universal Studios for the first time on Thursday night with some other Seattleites relishing the Florida heat.

Thanks to the team from Intel for coordinating and the folks at CSC for wanting to know more about Hubspan.

I was first introduced to Gary Snoman last year and appreciate the folks at Blueprint Ventures adding him to my much anticipated holiday greetings.  I think they tried to release this year’s version last week but it appears that the traffic was too much?  Anyway, here’s the link to the ‘coming soon’ page.  Last year’s below.  Also check out this one from Labrador Ventures (via Andy Sack).