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July 08, 2007
Tech Investing And Marathons
Vator TV is running a series on how to be an entrepreneur. We liked the one from SlingBox founder Blake Krikorian. Vator writes:
Blake Krikorian started Sling Media, his idea wasn't cheered at the onset. Rather, it was looked upon as a bit crazy. It took persistence in an idea and vision to convince the market a Slingbox would be in demand, according to Blake.
So for all the founders that read this blog, you can take heart from his success. Krikorian also says it's a roller coaster and "it is not a sprint it's a marathon."
The marathon metaphor reminded us of a list we're working on about techie marathon runners. If you look at the names, and if you know the people even in the outsider way a journalist does, persistence and endurance are evident in their workstyle.
Interestingly, our list is mainly investor types. If you're a founder and are into this kind of sport email us valerieatthealarmclock.com
- Julien Codorniou, head of Microsoft's IDEEs in Paris: runs 20ks and gets early stage companies up to speed
- Lois Lemeur, (Paris/San Francisco) vblogger and angel investor runs half marathons and publishes video interviews with his portfolio companies and digerati on both sides of the Atlantic
- Christian Waldvogel, Vinci Capital (Geneva) invests in Swiss IT and telecoms, a most unloved sector
- Marc Goldberg, Occam Capital (Paris) That is him in the photo above. It took him at least three years to raise his turnaround fund for European tech, but he did it and has acquired Mandriva, which was on the brink of insolvency, and Zenops, which combined in-fusio, a well funded mobile games platform company that struggled, and a division of Filao, a CD-ROM/DVD publisher, in its portfolio.
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