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May 12, 2006
Famous Founder Looking For Next $M idea
Famous Founder Looking For Next Million Dollar Idea... That's how a handful of European serial entrepreneurs might word a classified ad, if they did things like that.
We've come across several that might be looking for their next fortune-making venture, having built at least two previous startups and walking away with a healthy return on their investments.
Fabrice Grinda (France) The 31 year old (far right, above) founded Zingy, a ringtone, wallpaper download service (similar to Jamba) in 2003. It was recently acquired for $80M. Prior to that he founded Aucland, an eBay clone, which was acquired by QXL Ricardo plc. Likes cloning. Now blogging at FabriceGrinda.com.
Marc Samwer (Germany) Co-founded Jamba, a cellphone ringtone and gaming portal, along with brothers, Oliver and Alexander, then sold it to Verisign for $273M. Prior to that founded Alando and sold it to eBay. Likes cloning.
Beat Heeb and Daniel Diez (Switzerland) The forty-something co- founders of Esmertec an embedded software developer for Javaphones - floated their firm on the SWX last year - leaving at the end of June. Prior to that the two co-founded Oberon Systems, a developer of programming and compilers technology. Smart techies.
Posted on May 12, 2006 05:35 AM | Posted to entrepreneurship | Permalink
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