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Third Point’s Daniel Loeb is one of the most successful hedge fund managers of 2010. Third Point’s flagship fund returned 41.7% in 2010. NXP Semiconductors (NXPI) returned 54% between September 30th and December 9th, when Dan Loeb penned his third quarter investor letter. Daniel Loeb was extremely bullish about NXP Semiconductors in his letter. This is what he said:
“In August, we participated in the IPO of NXP Semiconductors NV, a leading semiconductor manufacturer emerging from a 2006 LBO led by KKR, Silver Lake, Bain and Apax. We had successfully participated in the NXP story via its distressed debt in late 2009, and were prepared for the IPO, which came at a very attractive valuation of roughly 5.5x estimated 2011 EPS. The company is in the final stages of completing a substantial operational and capital structure restructuring, which is driving strong free cash flow, rapid deleveraging and attractive new opportunities like a leadership position (>50% market share) in Near Field Communications, a fast emerging mobile payment technology being adopted by Google Android, Nokia and Blackberry. Despite a strong recent run in the shares, limited familiarity and misconceptions leave it trading at a 50% discount to peer P/E and FCF multiples and lagging the performance of other comparably levered, post‐LBO IPOs such as Sensata and Avago. As NXP’s growth, profitability and cash flow attributes (it will generate close to $3 in 2011 FCF) become better understood, we see substantial upside in the name.”
Since December 9th, NXP returned an additional 42%, whereas Sensata (ST) returned 10% and Avago (AVGO) returned 12%. Outsiders monkeying Dan Loeb’s strong endorsement would have beaten the benchmark securities and the market by more than 30 percentage points. One shouldn’t think that Dan Loeb is doing a public service by endorsing these stocks. At the end of November, NXPI’s market price was $12.58 with an average daily transaction volume of 220,000 shares during the previous 20 trading days. The stock price climbed to $18.44 by December 8th , with an average trading volume of 728,000 shares during the first six trading days of December. You don’t need to be a genius to predict who was buying those shares days before Dan Loeb’s letter to his investors.
Dan Loeb’s Offshore Fund returned an additional 3.9% in January beating both the SPY and fellow hedgies David Einhorn and Whitney Tilson. Dan Loeb’s other big winners in January were Potash (POT), Smurfit Stone Container (SSCC), Massey Energy (MEE) and Aveta. His biggest losers were GLD, Brenntag AG, Mead Johnson Nutrition (MJN), African Barrick Gold, and Accuride Corp.
Potash (POT) returned 17.7% in January. This is one of hedge funds’ favorite investments. Mohnish Pabrai also has Potash in his portfolio. In January, Smurfit-Stone Container Store announced that it will be acquired by Rock Tenn Co (RKT) for $35 a share. The stock gained 46% in January. David Tepper and Barry Rosenstein were other SSCC investors. In January Alpha Natural Resources (ANR) also agreed to buy Massey Energy for a 21% premium. MEE returned 17% in January, contributing to Loeb’s outstanding performance. Some of Alpha Natural Resources insiders were selling weeks before the announcement.
Gold is the largest position in Loeb’s portfolio. GLD lost 6.4% in January. There are several hedge funds that invested in gold and suffered from the decline in gold. The decline in African Barrick Gold, which trades in London, reached almost 18% in January. Mead Johnson Nutrition’s (MJN) decline reached 7% in January, underperforming the SPY’s 2.4% increase. Finally Accuride (ACW) lost nearly 6% in January.
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Mobile social startups are all the rage these days, and for good reason. The wave started, of course, with the iPhone and other smartphones that allow anyone to create an app.
But it's easy for us in techland to forget that the vast majority of people, especially teens, still have the less advanced feature phones, and those are still big business.
AirG is a company based in Vancouver, whose app is mostly on feature phones and has most of the features of a social network, like chat, games and entertainment, got started in 2000, has 55 million users, and is profitable. We just had a chat with Founder and CEO Vince Yen, who's bullish on the future of mobile social networking.
AirG works through mobile carriers, and has partnerships with 100 of them in over 40 countries. The app lets you chat with people you know or new people, play games, comment on photos, etc. The business model is a combination of subscriptions (through carriers) and advertising. AirG is on smartphones as well but most of the users are still with feature phones.
Of course it's a bit of a misnomer to compare AirG to Foursquare -- it's mostly a mobile entertainment/media company, rather than a location-based social network like Foursquare. But if it's not in the same house it's definitely in the same neighborhood.
We like businesses that are doing well in under-covered segments of the market. People have been going gaga for mobile for 2 or 3 years but there are actually plenty of companies started way earlier that are doing big business on mobile. It'll be interesting to see which ones adapt to the new reality and which ones (like ringtones companies) crash and burn.
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Early reviews of the Verizon iPhone 4 have hit the web and the short answer is pretty much what we all expected — AT&T can be faster for data and handles simultaneous voice and data, but Verizon sounds better and has more reception in more places. For the long answers, follow on after the break! BusinessWeek: [...]Verizon iPhone early review roundup is a story by TiPb. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store.
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Microsoft uses browser toolbars to monitor what users search for and click on at Google, and then uses this information to improve Bing's search results.
Apparently, Google has just discovered this -- even though Microsoft has been talking about it for more than a year.
This morning, Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land explained that Google became suspicious last May that Bing was "copying" its search results. So the company set up a test in December: it took made-up or obscure words like hiybbprqag and manually tweaked the search algorithm so that a randomly selected Web page would show up near at top of Google search results for those words. (Google claims it doesn't normally weigh individual pages in search results this way, and says it discontinued the manual tweaking capability as soon as the experiment was done.)
Then it got a bunch of Google engineers to run searches using Internet Explorer with the Bing Toolbar installed. Sure enough, after a couple weeks those same pages began showing up in Bing results for the same words.
Google concluded that Bing is actually watching user behavior on its site and changing its search results accordingly. Shocking news, right?
Not really -- Microsoft has been talking about this practice for several years.
Microsoft vice president Satya Nadella took over development for Microsoft's search engine in late 2007. When Microsoft rebranded it as Bing in May 2009 -- and make no mistake, Bing was not new, it was a rebrand of a search initiative that started back in 2003 -- Nadella told me that most Bing results were on par with Google's.
One way that Microsoft made sure of this was by collecting data from users via the MSN Toolbar and Windows Live Toolbar (the Bing Toolbar came later) as early as 2007. Among other things, the toolbars collected information about search queries and how long users spent at particular results pages. And not just from Microsoft's own search engine, but also from user activities at Google and Yahoo (which was still independent at that time).
Directions on Microsoft published a report containing this information in July 2009 (subscription required).
Bing director Stefan Weitz confirmed on the phone this morning that Microsoft has shared this information with other press and analysts as well. It's not a secret.
As Sullivan notes in his article, Microsoft asks users if they want to share data via the Bing Toolbar to "help improve the online experience." The boxes are checked by default, and the terms clearly explain what information Microsoft might be collecting and how they might use it.
Nadella didn't mention whether the search pane in Internet Explorer tracks search behavior, but certain features like Suggested Sites have terms of use that would seemingly permit it.
To be clear, this isn't the ONLY factor that goes into Bing's rankings. Indeed, most Bing search results pages are quite different from Google's. But it's definitely ONE factor that Bing uses.
So going back to Google's "experiment," if users with the Bing toolbar are suddenly clicking on a page for a particular search result, Microsoft is absolutely going to notice, and those results are going to get fed into the Bing algorithm.
Is this ethical? Google doesn't think so -- the company invests a ton in R&D for its search algorithm, and doesn't like to see Bing cribbing from it. But from Microsoft's perspective, it's simply improving the user experience.
The real question is do users care? Probably not -- they just want the best results.
Here's Microsoft's official statement on the matter: "We use multiple signals and approaches in ranking search results. The overarching goal is to do a better job determining the intent of the search so we can provide the most relevant answer to a given query. Opt-in programs like the toolbar help us with clickstream data, one of many input signals we and other search engines use to help rank sites."
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On Monday I was at the White House to help announce the Startup America Partnership. As part of this, TechStars announced the TechStars Network, an affiliation of TechStars-like programs across the country along with our commitment to the Startup America Partnership to help 5000 experienced mentors work with 6000 entrepreneurs to create 25,000 new jobs by 2015. For an awesome description of Startup America, please read Aneesh Chopra’s (the United States CTO) post on TechCrunch titled Startup America: A Campaign To Celebrate, Inspire And Accelerate Entrepreneurship. By the way, I think it is awesomely cool that the CTO of the United States blogs on TechCrunch!
Over the past eighteen months I’ve gotten to know a number of people in the executive brand of our government, especially at the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Economic Council. In general, I don’t engage that much with government, but I have with issues that I care deeply about like the Startup Visa and entrepreneurship. In this case I’ve been blown away by the intelligence, thoughtfulness, tirelessness, and capability of folks in OSTP and the NEC. When I was first involved in discussions around entrepreneurship that later evolved into the Startup America Partnership, I was originally skeptical about what I was hearing. Nine months, and a bunch of discussions later, I think the White House has approached Startup America in a very smart and powerful way and I believe that everyone involved has a major clue about entrepreneurship, the importance of it to our economy and our country in general, and how to help celebrate, inspire, and accelerate entrepreneurship across America.
When I was first approached to talk about how the White House could help entrepreneurs, I focused most of my comments on trying to help the folks I talked to understand the difference between high growth entrepreneurs and small business people. They are both important to our economy, but have very different needs and until recently I didn’t feel like the White House, or other branches of government, really understood the difference between the two.
Fortunately, the White House listened to a number of smart people, including the amazing folks at the Kauffman Foundation. I worked closely with the Kauffman Foundation in the mid-to-late 1990′s both through their partnership with the Young Entrepreneurs Organization as well as being an “entrepreneur-in-residence” (a fancy word for “one day a month consultant”) where I worked with a team on better understanding high growth entrepreneurs. I continued to spend time with the Kauffman Foundation over the past decade, but lost touch with many of the people I’d worked with as the organization evolved. In the past few years, under the leadership of Carl Schramm, the Kauffman Foundation has reasserted itself as the most significant organization thinking about, researching, and advocating for entrepreneurship as part of it’s mission to accelerate entrepreneurship in America. I’ve gotten to see them in action first hand through work that I’ve done with Lesa Mitchell, Paul Kedrosky, and Bo Fishback and I can confidently say that Mr. K’s legacy is in great hands.
Along with Kauffman, Steve Case, the co-founder of AOL, his wife Jean and the Case Foundation, has been working hard to help the White House craft a public / private partnership to shine a bright light on entrepreneurship and help accelerate it across the country. I’ve never worked closely with Steve but have always admired him from afar and love the leadership team of Steve and Carl heading up the Startup America Partnership.
As David Cohen and I talked about the idea for the TechStars Network over the past few quarters, it became obvious to us that it would be a natural part of the Startup America Partnership as we both strongly believe that mentorship is a core attribute of growing entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship. We both believe that TechStars like programs can existing in over 100 cities in the US, covering many different industry segments (not just software and Internet), and the value of coordinating the mentor, entrepreneur, and investor activity across the entire country is extremely powerful. We had already identified over 100 different accelerator programs in the US that were modeled after TechStars and had helped a number them get started, so as we put together the original members of the TechStars Network, we were psyched that 16 high quality accelerator programs joined us at launch.
It’s important to realize that each of the TechStars Network member programs will be locally owned and operated. We strongly believe in the power of a network model in the construct of expanding entrepreneurship, not a hierarchical centrally owned and controlled one. We think entrepreneurship across the US is not a zero-sum game and we want to play our part in expanding it. TechStars will still run programs that it owns and operates in Boulder, New York, Boston, and Seattle, but we’ll continue to aggressively expand the overall network across the US as well as the world.
I’m extremely excited to play my small part in the Startup America Partnership. For those of you out there questioning how government and entrepreneurs intersect, I encourage you to give the Startup America Partnership a chance. Start by looking at the 27 private organization commitments to the partnership. And, if you want to engage in any way, just email me and I’ll try to figure out how to get you plugged in.
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