Comments on: Viadeo secures $5m more funding, but it still needs a breakout strategy

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By: Social Networking Watch

Social Networking Watch — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:23:01 +0000

Viadeo Secures $5m …

TECH CRUNCH — July 16 — Viadeo, a LinkedIn and Xing competitor, has secured $5m of funding from French investment houses AGF, Ventech and other investors. The business social network is best known in France, but it’s planning to expand……

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Recent technology venture capital deals in Europe | TheStartup.eu — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:59:14 +0000

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By: Joel

Joel — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:23:32 +0000

Being french and not living in france, I have to say that viadeo itself is not terribly attractive. there is no point for me in registering to a french website while most of my connections are worlwide and thus linkedin is king.

I question the funding as well, $23M is a large sum of cash in total and unless you have a stack of ‘executives’ and ‘managers’ living the great life… where is the money going ?

it is not like operational expenses should be large, it’s not a video website with need for large storage and bandwith or other things.

By: AL

AL — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:57:23 +0000

By: Dawn Marie

Dawn Marie — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:56:41 +0000

Yes I agree. Vanity URLs should be short and easy to remember.

By: Lucas

Lucas — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:33:41 +0000

8.5 million members? I don’t think so. Maybe about 8 million inactive ones. Which leaves about half a million French people who are not interested in connecting to people outside of France. No offense to France, but why would anyone join a network full of insular French businessman, unless you are one?

By: Francois MAROT

Francois MAROT — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:12:14 +0000

I’ve started recently looking for a job in the Paris area. I had been a Linkedin user from a long time and was thinking that it was the most widely used and the uncontested leader (working in IT where english is THE language helps)… How wrong was I ! Most of the contact I had recently for job interviews were on Viadeo and not on Linkedin (some were on both). So in France, despite what I thought, I think Viadeo has the lead.
Just for the record, right now my Viadeo profile says something like “go to see my Linkedin profile”

By: K. Burley

K. Burley — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:54:38 +0000

Yeah… they’re full of shizz. 8 million users? Yeah, right. Some investor(s) just got hosed. Or, more than likely they didn’t really invest and this is just hype to try and turn their original investment into something.

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By: AL

AL — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:51:23 +0000

I’m French, doing business both in France and the US, and I cal tell you Viadeo is just a joke – even in France.

All people in my entourage are on LinkedIn only. They sometimes have a profile on Viadeo (last time I checked it was almost impossible to delete you Viadeo profile…), but never use it.

Viadeo claims to have 8.5m users, even if this number is correct, I wonder how many are active.

By: Bruno

Bruno — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:15:41 +0000

I think that’s too long to be considered a vanity URL.
viadeo.com/name -that would be better.

By: Viadeo raises $5 Million, plans to boost growth | Startup Meme - Technology Startup and Latest Tech News

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:18:41 +0000

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By: Richard Francis

Richard Francis — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:03:41 +0000

Hi!

I’d like to point out that Viadeo do have vanity URLs. They are in the form of: http://viadeo.com/en/profile/name

Rich