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9 Criteria for Investing in a business – from Fabrice Grinda
Dec 10th
Just saw a great presentation from Fabrice Grinda on his entrepreneurial experience. Here are his personal 9 criteria for investing:
- billion in revenues someday
- 90% of bs. model revenues, margins
- Seed round should require less than $0.5 M
- Scalable business
- Growing biz; rising tide raises all boats; 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
- 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
Google Chrome Browser on Apple OS X – Follow this for pre-release version
Dec 3rd
Google should be nearing their first beta version of their web browser named Chrome. If you’re impatient and just want to try it out now, you can download the latest “Early Access Release” here.
http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel#TOC-Mac
As of now, this version of the browser does not prompt you to download a new version when it is available.
Photo mosaic of HEC MBA Class of 2010
Nov 29th
I’m helping out with the HEC Visions of Leadership awards for next Wed., Dec. 2nd. After putting together a promo video,
I built this mosaic of the class of 2010 which is being honored.
Built a photo mosaic of the HEC Paris class of 2010 for the Visions of Leadership awards ceremony.
Apple Testing the New iPhone?
Nov 29th
It looks like Apple employees may be testing the new iPhone (version 3) already. 
This is not a new thing for Apple to start their field testing of an iPhone well in advance of their next release. Last year in October, the iPhone 3GS began to appear in the San Francisco area.
And again, let’s hope an iPhone for Verizon is on its way. That way, Katie can finally get one!
Back to blogging
Nov 28th
In the spirit of Matt Cutts’ 30 day challenges, I’m going to post to this blog once a week for the next 4-5 weeks (well, I’ll aim for 30 days worth of weeks).