The Five Million Dollar Project
The Five Million Dollar Project
Chris South
This not for profit initiative provides real-world exposure on what it takes to build and sell a high value technology business. Filmed and narrated live, it offers a warts-and-all view of the day-to-day and strategic decisions being made as the business goes through each stage of its growth, with the final objective being a sale for in excess of five million dollars.
The calm before the storm
In this episode Chris talks about the Roi-AI funding journey and broadens the scope of the Five Million Dollar Project to include insights around his other business what keeps him awake at night personally.
Aug 17, 2022
19 min
Plans for 2022
In this episode, Chris discusses what is in store for 2022 at Roi-AI. It's safe to say it is going to be a pretty big year!
Jan 24, 2022
5 min
Scaling
Roi-AI is now live, so the focus changes to getting the platform ready to scale and raising awareness with customers in New Zealand, Australia and further-afield.
Jun 22, 2021
9 min
2 year planning
As go live approaches the investor team get together to review the plan for the next two years, including people, funding, marketing and target geographies.
Apr 13, 2021
7 min
Excitement & nerves
As we get ever closer to product release, the excitement is building, but it also means nerves are beginning to feature! Chris discusses how he is dealing with this and also provides commentary around how our pricing structure was formulated, other go-live challenges, and our two new database partners.
Feb 18, 2021
9 min
Thinking on your feet
This episode provides an update on the status of RoiAI, plus, a recent and real-life insight on what to do when your plans are unexpectedly derailed at the last minute.
Jan 26, 2021
11 min
Getting ready for day one
We are getting close! Here Chris walks us through the latest software development updates and also everything else that is being done to ready Roi-AI for market release. Including the website, agreements, launch events, templates, financial projections and more.
Nov 25, 2020
11 min
Searching for a date
Three months in the making, we finally can announce a go-live date! In addition, Chris also discusses exactly what he and the team have been up to, in what has been a very stressful and eventually incredibly rewarding part of the journey. Roi-AI is creeping every-closer to reality!
Oct 22, 2020
11 min
Initial marketing, demos & integrations
In our first 'real-time' video, Chris talks through some of our initial marketing strategies, how we have already had to pivot these fairly significantly, and the importance of partners. In addition, he goes into detail about what we have been doing to ensure Roi-AI integrates smoothly into existing recruitment technology products. Lastly, find out about a couple of unexpected, but very welcome, surprises!
Jul 23, 2020
13 min
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