World-renowned professional poker player and now breakthrough businessman Matt Jarvis is our feature Investorpreneur. Cash Live, a cutting-edge poker mobile app, offers an unrivaled gaming experience, combining the best of online and live casino play but with a twist. This live experience allows you to enjoy all the excitement of a real casino environment, right from your phone or tablet. A tournament from start to finish in just 20 minutes. Listen with us today as Matt shares his values, beliefs, practices, and vision that invited prominent investors to fund Cash Live and help bring it to the future of Poker and Online Casino gaming. Cash Live has had some very prominent investors, like Phil Hellmuth, a sixteen-time World Series of Poker winner, or Justin Waldron, co-founder of Zynga, invest with Matt on this journey. How does Matt do it? Listen for yourself how he started from poker player to Investorpreneur. https://www.cash.live/ https://ca.linkedin.com/in/matt-jarvis-78b24969

We have on the Investorpreneur podcast another special guest, a startup entrepreneur, Casey Grage. Casey is the CEO and Co-founder of Hubly Surgical. She will share her story of passion, innovation, and learning as she creates a whole new breed of medical equipment, opening unfamiliar but great doors as she raises funding for mass production. In the US, over 3.5 million neurosurgical procedures are performed annually. Most of these patients require a craniotomy to access their brain and perform tumor removal or other surgical intervention.  Neurosurgeons have been performing craniotomies for decades using manual drills with no safety backstops since their design in the 1950’s. What Casey brings to the field is safety and consistency with their invention.  Join us as we chat with Casey Grage about her journey in creating a new generation of electric drill systems, revolutionizing the future of surgery. https://hublysurgical.com/ https://twitter.com/hublysurgical https://www.facebook.com/HublySurgical/

Dean Gorenc is a local Calgarian from mortgage broker to mega Real Estate Developer. He founded UrbanStar on $5,000 just over 10 years ago.  As an Investorpreneur, we are looking for opportunities that could yield good returns while protecting the downside. Dean believes that Calgary has that Risk to Reward ratio covered as the third most resilient city in Canada while having a prominent place in the commodities market.  "When you talk about real estate, you have to look at the underlying economics that allow for future development" Dean and his team not only raised capital in Canada but abroad in Japan where you will hear about his secrets to raising over a hundred million of capital for deployment in the Calgarian market.  The story is remarkable and Dean Gorenc is authentic with his sharing of his wisdom and experience. Listen in and take great notes.

Katie Kay is the Coach and Serial Entrepreneur you want on your corner when it comes to Starting, Growing and Scaling your business.  Katie shares all the obvious secrets that most entrepreneurs constantly miss when they build their business. Sometimes it is the most common and simple things that make a business work and she shares her experience on her failures and also her successes in implementation. She will share on this podcast how she started her first business, and how she was able to leverage her team in building a multimillion dollar empire.  A few key-pointers to start: 1. Don't get emotional in business. Stay with rational and logic. 2. Incentivize people with commission structures and how to outperform the competition. 3. Put up non-competes in her employee contracts 4. Do not be afraid to exit "If you want to exit, you have to scale" preaches Katie to her clients and partners. Listen in as Katie shares her wisdom on her multiple company exits and why her coaching works.

A true Investorpreneur, Charles Bhatana is my guest on the show speaking about his Startup Experience and to Navigate the Capital Raising Game from investors.  Raising Capital is such an important subject, especially to a startup that requires external resources. Do you tell investors what they want to hear or do you tell them what your vision is for growth? How do you build a startup with profit as well as growth and is it possible and liked by investors.  Charles is the founder of JobsLab. His vision is to disrupt a competitive recruitment industry by matching the right candidates more effectively. Charles have had years of experience operating in this traditional space matching candidates to jobs in the financial world. What was his motivation to start this new business.  We think that many industries will be impacted by the deployment of Artificial Intelligence and JobsLab is wanting to jump ahead from what is a geographical business to that of the global marketplace. Charles speak on the topic of hiring for his team and all the things he have had to do to get the company growing while at a profit.  I'm sure you will enjoy the teachings and wisdom Charles Bhatana will share with us today.  https://www.jobslab.io/

"Learn to not bet on the horse, but on the jockey." Is there a way to mitigate risk when investing in Startups? These co-founders may have solve the riddle. Sam Chandola and Thamer Matar are serial entrepreneurs. They are the classic Investorpreneur, they have shared their secret to evaluating deals. Each of them have achieved so much success in raising capital, for their previous projects and their current fund where they invest into startups.  This show is very specific as to their sharing of how they grew this fund and the importance of soft skills to working with investors. I promise this show is packed with insights with their on the ground knowledge of which industries are more likely going to make it big and which sectors to avoid.  Sam Chandola is the recipient of the 2014 BC Business Top 30 under 30 award, the RBC Top 75 Canadian Immigrant award, and the 2017 TMX Canada's Next 150 award. He routinely talks about entrepreneurship at events and universities such as Pecha Kucha Nights, University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, and the Center for Digital Media. Thamer Matar's startup in Openspot, was the three finalists for the Startup of the Year Award from the BC Tech association in 2019. He has spoken on the largest expos around Smart Cities.  We are grateful to have them as our guest on the Investorpreneur. 

Imagine being able to invest hassle free while being able to invest with profit and all you need to do is systematically able to save for your future with low fees.  Does that sound too good to be true? Tim Jones believes that the way it should be. Why pay massive fees for management when most don't do a better job than the market. It is enlightening the road that Tim has taken, from corporate executive to embarking on his journey into entrepreneurship. How did he raise his capital? How did he do his capital deck. Who had to be involved?  Listen in to Tim Jone's story as he takes on the giants in the industry and how he believes he has the better solution to the everyday problem of building wealth.

"Marketing cannot stop" said Nick Daryanani Branding is the difference between profit and growth or losses and failure. How can branding be justified with numbers and results?  Nick Daryanani is the host of the popular show "Off the Cuff" and also Founder and Executive Producer of 24 Frames. This episode of Investorpreneur is featuring the story of Nick's step by step staircase of success and the founding of his own firm.  How do you handle the fear of finding business? Do you put it all on the line during the times of lockdown? How do you maintain your staff in multiple countries? It is impressive how Nick was able to handle the Pandemic and yet grow despite of adversity. Nick is also a loving husband and a serial marketer that is pro business, a true Investorpreneur.

Investing in the stock market, trading equities, long and short positions, could be foreign language to so many.  Listen in as we have Tom Kehoe, Managing Director, Global Head of Research & Communications from AIMA sharing his insights about how Hedge Funds could stand a place in your portfolio. Hedge Funds have had a lot of attention in the Investing world for High Net Worth (HNW) and Investors looking for that extra return. As an investor, we are always looking for lower risk and higher returns,  I had a great time interviewing Tom and the wisdom he shared is priceless. Investing as an Entrepreneur has been one of the best choices in my life and learning about another avenue in which I can seek passive growth in my portfolio is refreshing.

Dr.Tan is the founder and Chief Strategist for Phiem Asset Management.  He is the man known most for his Value Investing Strategies in the Asean market. Also known as the Warren Buffett of Asia.  Dr.Tan has managed funds of over 1.2B and thrives when there is a drawdown in the market.  If you are an investor in the market, this session is priceless. The principles he shares remains timeless while he also provides insights to how to navigate the outcome of the crisis. (Not to mention that he has won many many accolades outperforming the benchmark)