Like a good entrepreneur, we tend to keep building new businesses over time and usually, end up losing track of which email to use, what brand to talk about when we go for networking events, and certainly how to keep everything organised. I thought about how best to do this, and decided to create yet another entity — albeit a holding one — to park all my ventures beneath. This might look a little messy at first, but I’m reasonably sure things will get clearer over time. Time to get started!
Behind the Brand
I was thinking about the types of businesses I’ve been involved in over the years, and there’s really one thing in common. In order to be competitive in the market, businesses that I take interest in do just one thing — All of them seek to provide new solutions to old problems. Finding method in the madness is what I love doing. To that end, Irregular Ventures was born.
Here’s the logo our team put together after (not) much thinking:
My Personal Business Model
In the past when I was much younger, I’ve always wanted to “manage a business”. The glamour, the power… all that was so attractive to the younger me. Since 2015, I’ve learnt so much more about myself and my strengths and weaknesses. My strength wasn’t in managing businesses, my strength was building new business relationships (e.g. sales and marketing), contributing new ideas, building systems and processes and incorporating technology support. I hate managing businesses, so since then I’ve always worked with partners who would manage the entire business (such as HR, finance, and general business matters), and let me be the calvary in the back.
What are my Irregular Ventures?
I’ll try to keep this list exhaustive:
- Get Out! Events — Corporate events management
- Event Builder — The Booking.com for events (Coming soon!)
- New Age Group — SMS Gateway (sold)
- Goose Chase – Scavenger Hunt App (Coming soon!)
- Lobang – Event-based job platform (Coming soon!)
- CryptoBuzz App – Sentiment analysis for crypto (EOL)
- Octopus Validator — A simple, free-to-use email validation tool (EOL)
How do I remain productive using Technology
Having systems and processes in place is important (read more here) but practically, you’d need to use technology to ensure that everything happens. Here’s a list of my current tech stack:
- GSuite for Business (paid) — Email and GDrive
- GSuite for Slides and Sheets (phased out)
- Trello — Project management for developers
- Asana — Project management for Get Out! Events and (2)*******
- Slack — Communication for everything
- Hubspot (paid)— CRM
- Wordpress — Websites
- PHP/NodeJS/Python — Backend
My goal is to eventually build our own project management tool that would act as a conduit between all these apps that we use. I don’t think we need to rebuild the features that many of these awesome SaaS tools already provide, but it’s certainly useful to have a centralised platform so our team doesn’t have to keep 25 tabs open in their Chrome browser!
What’s Next?
I have increased my investment in a very capable development team and intend to double down on growing this team in 2020. The goal is to build as many useful niche apps and tools as possible that can be marketed even before the tool launches. The way I intend to to do this, is to identify specific (business) needs of individuals -a lot of them – before I build the tool with my team.
Our Singapore-based team has also more than doubled since 2018 and we have a lot of hands on deck to support either market research, customer service, or enterprise sales.
Call for Ideas
If there is a tool you’re looking for that doesn’t exist, or the one that exists is simply too confusing or complicated, I’d like to hear from you. Share your ideas with me on the next most useful and profitable tool that my team should build, and if I agree with you, I will build it.
Whats in it for you?
Lifetime Access
You and your team get free lifetime use of the tool for an unlimited number of users. We will continue to build on the ideas, fix bugs,etc. while you simply enjoy using the tool you’ve always been looking for.
Revenue Share
Once we get to $100k in subscription revenue per tool, I will also share a percent of the total revenues with you in perpetuity (T&C applies obviously).
Super Affiliate
If you promote the tool, you will get a significantly higher referral fee than the other affiliates. If you have a fairly thought through marketing plan, I’m also open to giving you exclusivity to promote this tool for a period of time upon launch.
How to get in touch?
Email: founders@irregular.xyz
