9 Criteria for Investing in a business – from Fabrice Grinda

Just saw a great presentation from Fabrice Grinda on his entrepreneurial experience. Here are his personal 9 criteria for investing:

  1. billion in revenues someday
  2. 90% of bs. model revenues, margins
  3. Seed round should require less than $0.5 M
  4. Scalable business
  5. Growing biz; rising tide raises all boats; market
  6. Can be one of top 3 players, could be niche, better to be #1 of course
  7. No risk of margin squeeze
  8. You know how execute in that space
  9. Only ideas that the investor likes personally

Quite interesting…

billion in revenues someday
90% of bs. model revenues, margins
Seed should be less than $0.5 M
Scalable business
Growing biz; rising tide etc; market
Can be one of top 3 players, could be niche, better to be #1 of course
No risk of margin squeeze
You know how execute in that space
Ideas that the investor likes
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