Alvin Poh started his first business venture, Vodien, at 17 years old. The company scaled rapidly to become Singapore’s top web-hosting firm at that time, as claimed. In 2017, Alvin sold Vodien for SGD30 million after having boot-strapped it from the ground up.
According to Alvin, throughout his entrepreneurial journey, there were many lessons learnt. Today, he is coaching and mentoring other startups to achieve similar or greater success via Super Scaling.
Alvin is actively coaching and mentoring 45 founders from Singapore, Malaysia and the UK to help elevate their 6 to 7-figure ventures into 8 and even 9-figure businesses.
He shares how the journey was starting a business at the young age of 17 and also talk about:
- The key success factors and milestones achieved when growing Vodien
- Strategies on customer acquisition
- The reason for selling off the company
- What sparked his interest to coach and mentor other startups
- The coaching methodology and the key elements of the programme
- Super Scaling business model
- Success stories of some startups he has mentored and coached
- The differentiator compared to other accelerators
- The regional startup ecosystem
Guest: Alvin Poh, Founder and CEO of Super Scaling
Host: Brian Fernandez
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