Alaric Ong

Founder & Director, Apollo Method · 1 appearance on the record.

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Alaric Ong is a Singapore-based sales trainer and digital marketer who founded The Apollo Method. He authored The Apollo Factor and hosts The Alaric Ong Show.

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Disclosure

Ong: Investment contract binds founder's future ventures to current equity split

“In our agreement, I made it this way, like, we made it this way, and we agree on it this way, which we agree is fair, is that if, let's say, she leaves this business and she starts another business, then what's gonna happen is that she, like, she went to split…”

Alaric Ong Apr 21, 2021 ▶ 22:31 Pay Dividends To Investors Before Startup Founder Gets Any Pay?

Insight

Ong: MLM is ethical if products deliver value without recruiting

“That's how I decide whether a network marketing model is ethical or not. It's based on whether if they don't recruit other people, do they still get value from the product itself?”

Alaric Ong Apr 21, 2021 ▶ 7:32 Pay Dividends To Investors Before Startup Founder Gets Any Pay?

Disclosure

Ong: Raised $18K for 3% stake in tutoring business within three days

“Within three days, we raised 18,000 dollars for three percent of the company.”

Alaric Ong Apr 21, 2021 ▶ 17:02 Pay Dividends To Investors Before Startup Founder Gets Any Pay?

Disclosure

Ong: Main goal of coaching program is finding acquisition targets

“My main plan on why I do coaching is so that I can find more businesses to acquire, yeah.”

Alaric Ong Apr 21, 2021 ▶ 23:57 Pay Dividends To Investors Before Startup Founder Gets Any Pay?

Insight

Ong: Business Challenges Have Always Been Operational, Never Sales or Marketing

“Like in my whole business career, I've never had a sales and marketing problem. It always is an operations problem for me.”

Alaric Ong Apr 21, 2021 ▶ 2:39 Pay Dividends To Investors Before Startup Founder Gets Any Pay?

Opinion

Ong: 2016 Startup Collapsed Over Inflexible Co-Founder Equity Split

“The main reason why the business didn't take off was because of the equity split, right? Yeah. So the business didn't work because the equity split, because one of my partners, he had to go for national service. And so he couldn't contribute to the business an…”

Alaric Ong Apr 21, 2021 ▶ 5:11 Pay Dividends To Investors Before Startup Founder Gets Any Pay?

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Insight

Latka: Raising capital validates salesmanship, not the business idea

“Raising capital does not validate an idea. It means you're a good salesperson.”

Nathan Latka Apr 21, 2021 ▶ 25:05 Pay Dividends To Investors Before Startup Founder Gets Any Pay?

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
Pay Dividends To Investors Before Startup Founder Gets Any Pay?	Apr 21, 2021	15m

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