Exponential Business with Kelvin Mah & WiredXL: Recent Episodes
WiredXL, Kelvin Mah
Advice and tactics from world-class entrepreneurs as well as the best marketers, financiers, & investors today.
Quick Highlights
- Process for raising $31M in crowdfunding campaigns across 47 industries
- Works with startups to enterprises
- Offer stacking
- Guerilla marketing tactics
- Building an in-house team vs freelancers
- Bringing in an additional cofounder years after
Episode Links
- https://workinstartups.com/
- https://joopio.com/ (Samits marketing agency)
- https://www.samitpatel.net/
Quick Highlights
- Globalive (Brice's current company) and their investments
- Operating in a crisis situation
- The ups and downs of competing in the telecommunications industry
- Raising $442M from multinational investors
- Selling WIND Mobile for $1.6B
Episode Links
- https://www.globalive.com/
- https://www.freedommobile.ca/ (formerly WIND Mobile)
- The early days of Empire Flippers
- Managing a team of 67 people
- Deal tactics
- Running a portfolio of businesses
- Private equity buyers
- Ways to improve the value of your business
- Upcoming trends post COVID-19
- Getting into national retailers
- KPIs to understand for retail placements
- Hiring a COO early on
- Consumer goods accelerator, District Ventures
- Getting an investment from a member of the Dragons Den, Arlene Dickinson
- Parenting while growing a startup
- Being a certified B Corp
- Starting WhatIsMyIPAddress in the year 2000
- Creating a $500k side hustle
- Turning a passive income asset into an active business
- Cyber security
- Website monetization
- Tech trends
- How Dom got started with media businesses
- Purchasing $2.7 million dollars worth of websites in 2019
- How group buys work in this industry
- Structuring deals and partnerships for business purchases
- Winners and losers in his portfolio
- Hiring a COO vs a project manager
- Scaling a productized service