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Mi pare faccia il paio con FON, 36 milioni di dollari dopo.
Questo post di martin Varsavsky mi pare che dia dei grandi, grandissimi insegnamenti, che tutti quelli che pensano "vendo la società", dovrebbero leggere:
A profitable Fon is more Fun.
investors from Sequoia Capital, Ebay, BT, Digital Garage, Excite Japan, Marc Andreessen, Joanna Rees, and of course myself, CEO and Founder. All of us together have invested 36 million euros in Fon.
Tra lui, e tutti gli investitori ci hanno messo 36M
What
the 3 companies that I started and got to be worth over $700 million
dollars by the time I sold have in common, is that they were strategic
assets that huge telcos wanted to buy. But I still could not make them
profitable....
Aveva venduto per 700M, anche se non facevano utili... Il business model era quello più discusso a Parigi all'evento organizzato da Loic, il creatore di Seesmic, nato come piattaforma video e, 12 milioni di dollari dopo, diventato aggregatore di feed.
It was a year ago in the midst of the crisis and recognizing these
mistakes, that I started to personally finance the losses of the
company.
Dopo i finaziamenti iniziali, adesso tocca a Martin investire per mantenere l'azienda, con l'obiettivo di ...
I can also share with you that we will probably do around 2.5 million
dollars in revenues up from 400k in the first quarter (all figures are
in dollars). Currently growth is phenomenal, costs are low and margins
are high in our two lines of business; selling foneras, selling wifi
access passes...
il modello non ha funzionato, bisogna reinventarsi e mo' il business model e' adiacente al precedente: vendita di hardware e di accessi.
By next summer I would love to be doing around 1 million in profits per
month. And for all of 2011 I would be very happy if we did around 20
million in profit.
cioe' ca. 32 milioni di utili entro il 2011, molto simile a quei 36 inizialmente investiti. Come dire che sta finanziando il fatto che i suoi investitori riottengano i soldi che ci hanno messo.
Granted, we could lose momentum and be not at 1 million but at
something like 300K a month in profits by next summer in which case
recovering the 36 million euros invested will mostly depend on what got
me and my partners off the hook in the past, a strategic sale to large
players.
e, se non ce la fa a ripagare gli investimenti, c'e' sempre la speranza di vendere a qualcuno di grande.