Quali imprese sono state avviate e/o finanziate dai fratelli Samwer?

Le uscite dei fratelli Samwer

• Alando (eBay copy-cat, venduto a eBay nel 1999, per 43 milioni di USD) [1]
• Jamba (venduto a VeriSign nel 2004, per 223 milioni di EUR) [2]
• iLove+Jamba (venduto a VeriSign nel 2004, per 273 milioni di USD) [3]
• StudiVZ (venduto a Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, nel 2007, per 40-80 milioni di EUR) [4]
• MyPhotobook (venduto a Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, nel 2007) [5]
• MyVideo (copia-cat di Youtube, venduto a ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG, nel 2007, per più di 26 milioni) [6]
• Cember (venduto a XING, nel 2008, per 6,4 milioni di USD) [7]
• BigPoint (venduto a GMT Communications Partners e The Peacock Equity Fund, nel 2008, per 110 milioni di USD) [8]
• Lokalisten (venduto a ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG, nel 2008, per più di 25 milioni di euro) [9]
• Facebook (azioni acquistate nel 2008, sold in 2011) [13]

Exits via Rocket Internet

• CityDeal (sold to Groupon (company) in exchange of shares)
• GratisPay (Offerpal clone sold to SponsorPay)
• LadenZeile (Axel Springer AG acquired 78% for
  for 40 million EUR) [14]

European Founders Fund (venture capital firm) portfolio [10]

• LinkedIn (product) (IPO in 2011)
• HomeAway (company) (IPO in 2011)
• Nasza-Klasa
• Sport1
• OANDA
• ReachLocal
• Xactly Corp
• MFG.com

Rocket Internet (company) portfolio (Samwer incubator/business accelerator) [11]
http://www.rocket-internet.de/category/projects/

• Glossybox (Birchbox clone)
• Pinspire (Pinterest (product) clone)
• Wimdu (Airbnb (product) clone)
• Billpay (Bill Me Later (product) clone)
• Zalando (Zappos (company) clone)
• Plinga (Zynga (company) clone)
• Panfu (Club Penguin clone)
• Arztplatz1
• Jade 999
• Experto
• Dreambookers
• Wunderkarten.de
• R2 International
• Bigfoot
• Immobilo
• Netzoptiker
• Jade 885
• FP Commerce
• Betreut
• Lampen-Experte
• Enamora
• eDarling
• Toptarif
• Fashion4Home
• Tuningsuche
• 7Trends

Rocket Internet Deadpool

• MyBrands
• DealStreet
• Ecareer
• Dreambookers
• Beautydeal

Samwer's copy-cat strategy analyzed by German website 'Gründerszene' [12]

They copied Zynga and named their clone 'Plinga'...

[1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay#Unternehmen
[2] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Mobile_Distribution#Geschichte
[3] http://www.dld-conference.com/events/event/dld11_speaker-detail_aid_5.html?aid2=499
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StudiVZ#History
[5] http://www.golem.de/0705/52392.html
[6] http://paidcontent.org/article/419-prosiebensat-buys-remaining-stake-in-german-video-sharing-site-myvideo-/
[7] http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/01/23/xing-turkey-cember-idUSL238272720080123
[8] http://paidcontent.org/article/419-games-site-bigpoint-acquired-by-nbcus-peacock-and-pe-firm-gmt/
[9] http://www.telecompaper.com/news/prosiebensat1-acquires-remaining-70-in-social-network-lokalisten-report
[10] http://www.europeanfounders.com/investment-portfolio-exit.html
[11] http://www.gruenderszene.de/datenbank/investoren/rocket-internet
[12] http://www.gruenderszene.de/news