The Founder Files Unlocking Entrepreneurial Success - Allon Raiz, Raizcorp
Get ready to learn from an extremely accomplished entrepreneur who is in the business of building successful businesses. Allon Raiz is the founder and CEO of Raizcorp, an incubator that is focused of growing entrepreneurs in all life cycle stages, they offer programs from pre-entrepreneurial education right through to scaling.
In this episode we get into why Raizcorp has been labelled the only genuine incubator in Africa by The Economist and what they do different to other incubators, with some talk about the industry as a whole.
You get to hear Allon's approach to building an offer that was truly scalable and could be backed with a guarantee, as well as his approach to forming strategic partnerships.
Allon shares his rocky start with entrepreneurship and how a lot of it was based on luck and intuition.
Enjoy this episode filled with strategy and mindset principles that anyone can apply for success!
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00:00 Introduction 02:21 Welcomes 03:05 What is Raizcorp? 05:17 Raizcorp’s Model As An Incubator 14:00 Raizcorp’s Different Divisions 21:59 What Other Incubators Do Wrong 27:14 The Problem With The African VC Market 36:15 Starting An Incubator Without LP’s 45:26 Brought To You By Metavolve 46:49 Initial Growth of Raizcorp 51:12 Starting At Market Positioning vs Margin 55:17 Next Steps To Unlocking Growth 58:50 How Allon’s Reputation Helped Growth 1:04:26 Reading & Getting A Mentor 1:08:59 What Allon Got Right From The Get Go 1:14:08 Managing A Complex & Demanding Career 1:21:51 Strategic Partnerships 1:31:15 How To Stay Focused And Say No To Opportunities 1:35:29 What’s Next For Allon? 1:37:13 Would Allon Ever Sell Raizcorp? 1:38:09 Outro