06: Invest in Yourself to Startup an Award Winning Brewery
Invest Like a Boss
Sam Marks Johnny FD Derek Spartz
4.8 • 518 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2016
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Dan Norris, co founder of WP Curve, talks about how he and his team raised enough capital in order to sell his award winning craft beers in just two years. With the helping hand of finance from the first ever crowd-funded brewery campaign via Pozible, together with the backing of a small handful of astute investors, and one very supportive landlord they were able to launch June 18th, 2016.
Dan’s Word Press business – http://wpcurve.com/
Dan’s website – http://dannorris.me/
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/thedannorris
Twitter – https://twitter.com/thedannorris
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/dannorrisinformly
Where are we:
Dan – Gold Coast, Australia
Sam – Singapore
Johnny – Lisbon, Portugal
What we are drinking: 9am – Starbuck’s lattes
Recommended:
Discussed (relevant links):
Ballast Point Brewery
Time Stamp – Topic
07:20 – Background as an entrepreneur
17:12 – Other investments Dan has done
18:00 – Thoughts on angel investing
18:50 – Why Dan likes being an entrepreneur
19:50 – Adding value to private investments
24:00 – Passive vs active investing choices
25:30 – Black Hops Founding
27:30 – Early branding and home brewing
28:85 – $0 investment to get started using friends equipment
30:00 – Beer selection and awards
32:15 – Contract brewing
33:30 – Decision to raise money
36:20 – Time and effort in fundraising
38:00 – My attraction to Black Hops
39:00 – Craft beer industry
43:30 – Coming up with a valuation
48:00 – How to determine value of startups
54:00 – What Dan would do different with raising capital
58:11 – How the paperwork and structuring was facilitated
59:00 – Getting a hold of Dan
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | British gas have this thing. We call it home care. We'll fix all sorts and its unlimited repairs. |
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| 0:22.5 | new British gas taking care of things and looking after you. T's and C supply excess options |
| 0:28.9 | available per repair. Welcome to the Invest Like a Boss podcast. I'm Sam Marks and I'm Johnny FD. We're |
| 0:34.9 | self-made entrepreneurs who invest our own money and use modern technology to invest like a boss. |
| 0:39.1 | Join us each week for exclusive interviews with our network of modern investors, business owners, and multimillionaires to discover new ways to invest our hard-earned cash. |
| 0:47.0 | Hey everyone, this is Johnny. Welcome back to another episode of Invest Like a Boss. I'm here with Sam, and we have on Dan Norris today, who is the owner of Black |
| 0:56.8 | Hopps Brewery and Sam is an investor. Can you tell us a little bit about the actual company? |
| 1:03.7 | So Black Hopps, as Johnny said, is a brewer in Australia and is found or co-founded by one of my |
| 1:09.3 | buddies Dan Norris who we'll be talking to on this |
| 1:11.1 | episode. And the main reason I wanted to have him on the call was he's done so many things as |
| 1:16.5 | an entrepreneur over the last decade and now decided he wants to co-found Black Hopps. |
| 1:24.7 | And it just happened to be talking to him around that time and um kind of made a match |
| 1:29.8 | and decided to invest in in black hops so in the episode we're going to talk a little bit about |
| 1:35.1 | you know how he founded it how they came up with valuation and and um you know raising money |
| 1:40.5 | and the intricacies involved well what i really like about a kind of Dan's story and him starting the brewery |
| 1:46.5 | is he is a serial entrepreneur. |
| 1:49.5 | He makes a lot of money through his site, WP Curve, which is a membership site where |
| 1:55.8 | you can get access to WordPress developers. |
| 1:58.5 | So if you have any issues with your website, |
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