http://blog.techcapital.com/2008/07/02/so-you-are-looking-for-the-next-rim-are-you/ A venture capital firm focused on building world-class technology companies Mon, 26 Jul 2010 05:38:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://blog.techcapital.com/2008/07/02/so-you-are-looking-for-the-next-rim-are-you/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Tech Capital Partners Blog » Blog Archive » It’s not what you know… Who do you know? Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:24:13 +0000 http://blog.techcapital.com/?p=27#comment-15 [...] So you are looking for the next RIM are you? [...] [...] So you are looking for the next RIM are you? [...]

]]> http://blog.techcapital.com/2008/07/02/so-you-are-looking-for-the-next-rim-are-you/comment-page-1/#comment-45 Gary Will Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:18:19 +0000 http://blog.techcapital.com/?p=27#comment-45 Just to avoid any consusion ... this is an IMAGINARY pitch! :-) Just to avoid any consusion … this is an IMAGINARY pitch!

]]> http://blog.techcapital.com/2008/07/02/so-you-are-looking-for-the-next-rim-are-you/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Gary Will Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:16:29 +0000 http://blog.techcapital.com/?p=27#comment-44 RIM VC pitch, circa 1984: "We've developed a product around LED displays for the automotive industry and have a marquee customer for it. We've now started looking at a barcode reading technology that we think film editors will really like. We expect to have revenue of about $4 million after year 10 and anticipate an exit for investors after 13 years ... although you might want to sit on those shares for another 10 years." RIM VC pitch, circa 1984: “We’ve developed a product around LED displays for the automotive industry and have a marquee customer for it. We’ve now started looking at a barcode reading technology that we think film editors will really like. We expect to have revenue of about $4 million after year 10 and anticipate an exit for investors after 13 years … although you might want to sit on those shares for another 10 years.”

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