What do you do when you sell your business for €102 million? For both Peter Conlon and Patrick Rainsford, the answer was to go again.  In early 2001, the two business partners sold MVT, which developed optical inspection tools for electronics manufacturing companies, to Agilent Technologies in an all-cash deal. Each man moved on to launch his own company, but both men continued to invest heavily in both ventures. First Conlon formed Xsil to make laser machines to cut silicon for semiconductors. It ultimately failed, but by then Conlon had launched Ammado, an online funding platform. The collapse of this…

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