DRVE - Scaling D2C Brands with Smart Capital and Expertise
The Story of a Brand
Ramon Vela
5 • 145 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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“To stay profitable and generate sales” that's the key for every single company. Today we have Oliver Mauss, Founder of DRVE, a company that provides growth capital to D2C brands and invests as an equity partner.
Oliver studied Computer Science because he originally wanted to be a game developer. Since then, he’s been a part of many startup businesses, investing, and product building for more than 15 years. The idea for DRVE came out of the problems he saw in startups through the years. The brand offers a program that can take care of the challenges of growth for many brands.
According to Oliver, being an investor is hard, and you can't always win. He further advises founders to verify if they can at least make money through sales and then get the right professional partners.
He talks about:
* Gratefulness
* Overview of the company
* Requirement for the program to work
* His background
* Customer led system
* Lessons learned
* Observations around market
Join Ramon Vela and Oliver Mauss as they break down the inside story on The Story of a Brand.
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| 0:00.0 | Recorded at Mute Six Studios. |
| 0:07.9 | This is not your average entrepreneur or e-commerce podcast. |
| 0:11.7 | And he's not your average host. |
| 0:14.0 | This is the story of a brand with your host, Ramon Vela. |
| 0:20.6 | I think the key to everything for every company is to stay profitable and generate sales. |
| 0:28.6 | And if it doesn't work, if it's too hard, obviously something's wrong with the product. |
| 0:33.6 | If too much product comes back, if people just don't buy it, if the customer |
| 0:37.6 | acquisition costs is too high. |
| 0:39.6 | So what we see a lot and I think at the moment we have over 6,500 applications on our |
| 0:48.2 | table for the programs, what we see a lot is there is not really a market fit or the wrong timing or just the margins |
| 0:58.1 | are just calculated wrong so it doesn't really work for e-commerce and I think that's the |
| 1:03.8 | basic homework and and I can tell you there are pretty cool ideas out there pretty cool products |
| 1:10.1 | but it just doesn't work for the |
| 1:11.9 | e-commerce business so I think this is this is the first thing any founder should do |
| 1:17.6 | is to verify that it works and and then it's it's really then if you can take off all these boxes, |
| 1:31.0 | then you can move forward and take that company somewhere. |
| 1:36.3 | I mean, apart from that, there's so much stuff out. |
| 1:39.5 | There's so much to do for any founder, yes, |
| 1:41.6 | get the right partners, get the right help. |
| 1:44.6 | And make sure that they're professionals. |
| 1:52.0 | If managing your ads drives you crazy and you're all about automating your e-com business, |
| 1:57.4 | then you have to give Storia a try. |
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