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The Five Million Dollar Project

Author: Chris South

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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.
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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.
Plans for 2022

Plans for 2022

2022-01-2405:20

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!
Scaling

Scaling

2021-06-2209:10

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.
2 year planning

2 year planning

2021-04-1307:54

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.
Excitement & nerves

Excitement & nerves

2021-02-1809:31

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.
Thinking on your feet

Thinking on your feet

2021-01-2611:58

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.
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.
Searching for a date

Searching for a date

2020-10-2211:09

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!
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!
User experience

User experience

2020-06-1806:50

Striving to ensure Roi-AI offers the best user experience possible has been front of mind since day one. Here, learn about exactly what we have been reviewing and considering when making design and functionality decisions.
Setting up a business

Setting up a business

2020-06-1809:05

Scoping the product

Scoping the product

2020-06-0211:08

brand

brand

2020-05-2911:45

The pitch

The pitch

2020-05-2915:17

Getting started

Getting started

2020-05-2515:23

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