Fabrice Grinda Archives

Building a successful marketplace startup

juin 16, 2020juin 16, 2020

How to build a successful marketplace based startup? And why would one want to focus on building such a startup in the first place? What are the most promising segments in the space today? To tackle these questions, I draw on: A recent conversation with the world’s top seed investor and expert in marketplaces, Fabrice Grinda A recent conversation with Romain Serman, Head of BPI…

8 steps to earning superior returns in Venture Capital

juin 2, 2020juin 9, 2020

Fabrice Grinda, the world’s top seed investor, is developing an efficient investment strategy and achieving a steady 68% realized Internal Rate of Returns since 2009 across 540 startup investments by following a specific investment guide. Fabrice is following an investment philosophy much different from most Venture Capitalists: 1/ Many VCs are spending their time in low return startups while Fabrice, independent of LPs for capital,…

Capital efficiency, investment and innovation

On generating a steady 68% IRR in seed investment : advice from the world’s top investor (3/3)

avril 28, 2020mai 25, 2020

In previous post, showed that Fabrice Grinda is generating handsome returns for several reasons : wise time allocation going for a high potential business model efficient risk mitigation unit economics Today, I’m going to look at a few other principles. Sixth principle to securing handsome returns : Fabrice is assessing a team’s relevance based on 2 distinct abilities 1/ Do we like the team?…

Capital efficiency, investment and innovation

On generating a steady 68% IRR in seed investment : advice from the world’s top investor (2/3)

avril 10, 2020mai 19, 2020

In a previous post, I discussed how the world’s top seed-investor, the Franco-American Fabrice Grinda is generating superior returns in seed investment. I discussed 2 of his 8 principles, including wise time allocation and going for startups operating on platform-based business model. Today, I talk about several other principles related to platforms and funding positioning. Third principle on generating superior returns in seed investment…

Capital efficiency, investment and innovation

On generating a steady 68% IRR in seed investment : advice from the world’s top investor (1/3)

mars 31, 2020mai 19, 2020

In a previous post, I discussed how Venture Capital creates value. The Venture Capital business consists in investing in money-losing companies offering superior growth rates and the prospect of 100x returns in 5 to 7 years. But, in truth, many VCs don’t return the capital to their Limited Partners, as Private Equity and advisor to the Kauffman Institute, Diane Mulcahy has shown in an…

investment and innovation

How VCs create value

mars 24, 2020mai 19, 2020

VCs are in risky business as mentioned in a recent article where I talked about how the Venture Capital business operates. Yet the world’s top seed investor, Fabrice Grinda is developing a systemic approach to generating a steady 68% realized Internet Rate of Return. I’ll talk about my conversation with Fabrice in an upcoming article. In this article, I’ll talk about how VCs create…

investment and innovation

Introducing the Venture Capital Business

mars 17, 2020mai 19, 2020

How does the Venture Capital Business operate? Most would agree that innovation investments come with high risks especially compared other asset classes like real estate and publicly traded indexes. Yet, in a recent conversation with the world’s top seed investor, Fabrice Grinda, I learned of his systemic approach generating a steady 68% realized Internet Rate of Return across 540 deals since 2009. I’ll get…