Thursday, October 12 2006

My Activity as an Angel Investor

Here are the companies that I have invested over the last 2 years as an angel investor. Wikio, Plazes, Netvibes, Technorati, Vpod and last week, Moneytrackin, started as a project by two FON employees.

Why do I make these investments? Mostly because the entrepreneurs who run them are friends who I trust, because I believe in the markets or needs they address and because of reasonable valuations.

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  1. Martín, espero que estes muy bien. Primero, quiero felicitarte por esta brillante idea del blog. Un espacio para el debate de ideas y experiencias que enriquecen. Dos años atrás estuve en tus oficnas de Madrid (recomendación de Esteban Brenman, Andy Freire, Endeavor) para pedir vuestra opinion respecto de un proyecto. Concretamente, trata de una empresa que se dedica al e-procurement en Argentina (tambien pensada en España), al estilo remate inverso. Quería saber tu opinión de como ves el mercado actual para un emprendimiento así y como puedo hacer para conseguir el pequeño capital que necesito (con alianzas conseguí la mayor parte). Gracias por todo, gracias por apoyar a los emprendedores y por representar tan bien a los entrepreneurs latinoamericanos. Un abrazo.

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  2. Hello!

    Sorry to inform you that http://www.technorati.com can no be accessed from China (at least my home and office).
    It may be that the website is in the same server as a censored website. Or maybe this News website has already attract interest of Chinese censor.

    I hate censorship

    See you!

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  3. We are in Hong Kong, next to China and a Special Administrative Region of China, still can reach the site http://www.technorati.com

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  4. you see

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  5. Every entrepreneur invests in people and businesses they know and trust, and figures that they can work with so yours is a wise and widely accepted approach.

    Even corporate investors adopt the same policies — even if the due diligence is even more extensive.

    In film, there are what are called “vanity investors” who invest without knowing the production process and end up losing all their investments, so “vanity seeding” is never advisable.

    For the serious entrepreneurs seeking investors, they tend to approach people with proven track records rather than the man in the pub.

    There are established VCs connected to the Top 50 seed investors in Europe.

    That’s my primary route. It works.

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  6. hello mr.martin,
    have u invested in any projects in india?

    i am looking forward for someone who can be a partner in my project.

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  7. No Suresh, I haven´t invested in India.

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  8. But would you be interested in investing in India? Just a little over say, USD 10 - 20k for a very interesting and novel project? Of course, this would only be the seed funding required… If you are further interested, you could email me and I could let you know what’s it all about…

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  9. It could be interesting that you actualize this post with the new companies where you have invested, and also wich is the situation of each company.

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  10. Hi Martin

    We are seeking investment for medical imaging device project, would you be interested?

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  11. Dear Martin,

    I would like to start a technical and management consultancy company in the Benelux.
    We have explored the market and there are a lot of opportunities for this business. I have done the business plan and it is very profitable but we need some initial capital which is around 60k EUR.

    Are you interested?
    if so, please let me now to hcordova@ieee.org

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  12. Hello Martin,

    Interested in a Supernatural feature film with 8 stars ALREADY attached?

    Thanks,
    T.M.

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