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jlevinsohn

Fabrice Grinda: Musings of an Entrepreneur » And then there were a 100… - 0 views

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  • Jose and I typically invest in a copy only if the original model has reached $100 million in revenues and is profitable or on the path to profitability. Increasingly companies that have just raised seed money are being copied.
  • We don’t take simultaneous business model and market risk
  • mostly investing in priced rounds with pre-money valuations between $1 and $3 million, has allowed us to be successful on the majority of our exits – even when they were for less than $10 million
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  • Human nature is such that we would spend too much time with the companies fairing badly (even though the worst that can happen is that the value of our investment goes from 1 to 0) and not enough with the ones doing well (even though their value can go from 1 to 10 or 100!).
  • Most studies suggest that angels with fewer than 10 investments lose money, while those with more than 10 investments make money
  • The corollary is that by not being based in the Valley and by being so disciplined, we have not had any huge hits. Had we been given the opportunity to invest in Facebook, Google, Youtube, Linkedin and Pinterest at seed, we would have probably passed. None of the companies in the portfolio are worth more than $1 billion. Only a few have the potential to reach $1 billion and none seem to have the potential to be worth $10 billion.
benjamin white

Broadband in Brazil: More to Come | Txchnologist - 0 views

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  • benjamin white on 21 Jun 12
     
    To avoid these distortions, in 2010 the government launched the National Broadband Program (known by it's acronym in Portuguese, PNBL). The plan is to invest about $9 billion USD to bring a fiber optic cable to all the municipalities in the country, creating 90 million new broadband access points by 2014, the year in which Brazil will host the World Cup.
spsaaibi

The Handshake Deal Protocol - 1 views

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    When is an investment closed?
benjamin white

Do accelerators help startups? Here's what we found | VentureBeat | Entrepreneur | by S... - 0 views

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  • Our observations led us to the conclusion that accelerators need at least four years after a graduating class to determine their quality of results.
  • 21 percent exited and 25 percent out of business $162 million funding with $831 million in exits with an 5.1x return multiple Unrealized gains/losses 11 percent expected exits and 43 percent expected out of business $1.1 billion in funding with $13.4 billion in expected value with a 12.5x expected return multiple
  • Based on these historical results, we found that companies in accelerator graduating classes from before December 2009 returned 11.3x on capital invested. These are fantastic returns for entrepreneurs, VCs, and accelerators.
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  • Obviously this 11.3x figure factors in outsize returns from a few rock stars.  What happens we compare against accelerators that have more typical returns?
  • Of the 61 companies in this group, 20 percent exited or are expected to exit with a total return of 1.2x.
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